Magali Simard-Galdès, Jean-Michel Richer, Ariane Girard, Jessica Latouche, Alain Coulombe and Lyne Fortin will be part of the cast. There is also guest conductor Thomas Le Duc-Moreau.
The Quebec Opera Festival will present, as a world premiere, the work Solemn mass for a summer full moonadaptation of a work by Michel Tremblay.
This opera by Christian Thomas, a production of the Festival d’Opéra de Québec, will feature Les Violons du Roy, under the direction of guest conductor Thomas Le Duc-Moreau
Soloists Magali Simard-Galdès, Jean-Michel Richer, Ariane Girard, Jessica Latouche, Priscilla-Ann Tremblay, Patrice Côté, Alain Coulombe, Chantal Parent, Dominic Lorange, Dominique Côté and Lyne Fortin will be part of the cast.
The 90-minute opera, directed by Alain Zouvi, will be presented on July 29 and 31 and August 2 at the Palais Montcalm.
Published in 1996, Solemn mass for a summer full moon tells the story of 11 characters stepping onto their balconies on a hot, muggy and humid August evening. They will talk and say and scream their deep thoughts until they find peace and some relief. This work, unknown to Tremblay, deals with love and loss of love.
The Romeo and Juliet de Gounod will be the other big piece of this 12th edition which will take place from July 23rd to August 2nd. French tenor Thomas Bettinger and French soprano Hélène Carpentier will perform the famous duo.
Patrick Bolleire, Christophe Gay, Marie-Andrée Mathieu Tybalt, Félix Gertrude, Naggar-Tremblay, Dominique Gagné, Tomislav Lavoie, Robert Huard, Marc-André Caron and Louis-Charles Gagnon complete the cast.
A renewed brigade
There will be ten soloists, the Symphony Orchestra Choir and the OSQ under the direction of guest conductor Laurent Campellone. Romeo and Juliet will be playing at the Grand Théâtre de Québec on July 28 (7:30 p.m.), July 30 (2 p.m.) and August 1 at 7:30 p.m.
Jeunesses musicales Canada will present, on August 26, 27 and 29, at La Bordée, The Daughter of the Regiment by Donizetti.
The 12th edition of the Opera Festival will offer an Opera Circuit, which tells the story of opera in Quebec, with two new stations.
The Brigade Lyrique, in a renewed form, will present an opera section at noon and an operetta section at 5 p.m., in various locations in Quebec City. They will offer, for the first time, complete works in one act, with costumes and staging, with The phone by Gian Carlo Menotti and Small apple by Jacques Offenbach. It’s free.
With this 12th edition, the Opera Festival will feature productions in French.
“With the Festival, we want to create the excitement that will allow people to dare opera. After each production, we always receive comments from people who came for the first time. The observation is always the same, they are delighted, dazzled and impressed by the voices of the soloists, the power of the choirs, the beauty of the staging and the virtuosity of the orchestra”, indicated the general and artistic director Jean -Francois Lapointe.