Concours musical international de Montréal, Voice 2025 – Semifinal
Semifinal of the Voice 2025 edition of the CMIM.
The Concours musical international de Montréal (CMIM) invites us to experience the excellence and artistry of the best young musicians of the new generation.
Following an intensely competitive First Round, the semifinalists of the Voice 2025 edition take to the stage of the Maison symphonique de Montréal. Rediscover your favourite arias performed by the best singers of the new generation. Guest Conductor Patrick Summers
leads the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, official orchestra of the CMIM, in an evening of passion and enchantment.
Don’t miss this major operatic event!
Artists
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
Patrick Summers, chef d’orchestre
Semi-final : June 3, 2025
- Chanhee Cho, bass-baritone
- Fanny Soyer, soprano
- Junho Hwang, tenor
- Jingjing Xu, mezzo-soprano
- Katerina Burton, soprano
Semi-final II : June 4, 2025
- Fleuranne Brockway, mezzo-soprano
- Theodore Platt, baritone
- Julia Muzychenko-Greenhalgh, soprano
- Ariane Cossette, soprano
- Yewon Han, soprano
Program
Semi-final I : June 3, 2025
- Georg Friedrich Haendel, Why do the nations so furiously rage together?
(Messiah) - Charles Gounod, “Vous qui faites l’endormie”
(Faust) - Gioachino Rossini, “La calunnia è un venticello”
(The Barber of Seville)
Performed by Chanhee Cho, bass-baritone
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Exsultate, jubilate
(Exsultate, jubilate) - Richard Strauss, Heimliche Aufforderung
(Four Songs, op. 27) - Igor Stravinsky, No Word From Tom
(The Rake’s Progress)
Performed by Fanny Soyer, soprano
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, “Kuda, kuda, kuda vi udalilis”
(Eugene Onegin) - Felix Mendelssohn, If With All Your Hearts Ye Truly Seek Me
(Elijah) - Giuseppe Verdi, “Lunge da lei… ’De miei bollenti spiriti… O mio rimorso!”
(La traviata)
Performed by Junho Hwang, tenor
Intermission
- Johann Sebastian Bach, “Können Tränen meiner Wangen”
(St. Matthew Passion) - Georges Bizet, “Près des remparts de Séville”
(Carmen) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, “Parto, ma tu ben mio”
(La clemenza di Tito)
Performed by Jingjing Xu, mezzo-soprano
- Felix Mendelssohn, Hear ye, Israel
(Elijah) - Georges Bizet, “Je dis que rien ne m’épouvante”
(Carmen) - Giuseppe Verdi, “Come in quest’ora bruna”
(Simon Boccanegra)
Perfomed by Katerina Burton, soprano
Semi-final II : June 4, 2025
- Johann Sebastian Bach, “Erbarme dich”
(St. Matthew Passion) - Gioachino Rossini, “Non più mesta”
(La Cenerentola) - Richard Strauss, Sein wir wieder gut
(Ariadne auf Naxos)
Performed by Fleuranne Brockway, mezzo-soprano
- Gioachino Rossini, “Come un’ape ne giorni d’aprile”
(La Cenerentola) - Felix Mendelssohn, It is Enough! O Lord, Now Take Away My Life
(Elijah) - Erich Korngold, Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen
(Die tote Stadt)
Performed by Theodore Platt, baritone
- Ambroise Thomas, “À vos jeux, mes amis”
(Hamlet) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Alleluia
(Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165) - Vincenzo Bellini, “Ah! non credea mirarti”
(La sonnambula)
Performed by Julia Muzychenko-Greenhalgh, soprano
Intermission
- Hector Berlioz, “L’île inconnue”
(Les nuits d’été) - Felix Mendelssohn, Hear ye, Israel
(Elijah) - Johann Strauss II, Klänge der Heimat
(Die Fledermaus)
Performed by Ariane Cossette, soprano
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Alleluia
(Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165) - Ambroise Thomas, “Oui, pour ce soir… Je suis Titania”
(Mignon) - Gaetano Donizetti, “Regnava nel silenzio”
(Lucia di Lammermoor)
Performed by Yewon Han, soprano