Dance the Night Away with Barbara Hannigan 2025-2026
Barbara Hannigan has some exciting surprises lined up for you in this edition of the Concerts éclatés series. Prepare for a vibrant and unforgettable evening where music and dance take centre stage, featuring works by Offenbach, Weill, Glenn Miller, and other carefully curated selections chosen by the conductor herself.
A free cocktail will be offered at the bars of the Maison symphonique after the concert, courtesy of Distillerie de Montréal. Quantities are limited, first come, first served! Cheers!
Voices from the press
« Un orchestre applaudissant et trépignant, une salle debout et en délire : voilà le légitime accueil réservé à Barbara Hannigan. » – Le Devoir
« This concert’s conclusion, the sincerity of the audience’s effusive response to Barbara Hannigan’s tour de force performance was a richly deserved tribute for an unforgettable evening of music-making. » – Bachtrack Montréal
Artists
Barbara Hannigan, conductor and soprano
Marie-Nicole Lemieux, contralto
Program
Richard Rodgers, Carousel, Act I : Carousel Waltz [La valse du carrousel] (8 min)
Glenn Miller, In The Mood (4 min)
Glenn Miller, Moonlight Serenade (4 min)
Barry Manilow, Copacabana (4 min)
Kurt Weill, Youkali (6 min)
Kurt Weill, Lost in the Stars (4 min)
John Schonberger, Whispering (3 min 30)
Xavier Cugat, My Shawl (4 min 30)
Jacques Offenbach/Manuel Rosenthal, Gaité parisienne (excerpts) (15 min)
Kaoma, Lambada (4 min)
Frederick Loewe, My Fair Lady : I Could Have Danced All Night (arr. Billy Elliott) (3 min)
Concert without intermission
Barbara Hannigan
Soprano and conductorEmbodying music with an unparalleled dramatic sensibility, soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan is an artist at the forefront of creation. Over more than three decades, she has forged extraordinary artistic partnerships with the world’s foremost musicians, directors and choreographers, such as Bertrand Chamayou, John Zorn, Romeo Castellucci, Simon Rattle and Kent Nagano. The late conductor and pianist Reinbert de Leeuw has been an extraordinary influence and inspiration on her development as a musician.
The Grammy and Juno Award winning Canadian musician has shown a profound commitment to the music of our time and has given the world premiere performances of nearly 100 new creations. Recent world premieres include Golfam Khayam’s I am Not a Tale to be Told with Iceland and London Symphony Orchestras, John Zorn’s Split the Lark and Star Catcher, and Zosha di Castri’s In the Half Light with the Toronto and Montreal Symphony Orchestras.
Her awards and honours include being the 2025 Polar Music Prize Laureate, 2025 Musical America Artist of the Year, the Order of Canada (2016), Officier des Arts et des Lettres in France (2022), and Gramophone Magazine’s 2022 Artist of the Year, among many others.
Marie-Nicole Lemieux
ContraltoThat Marie-Nicole Lemieux shines today at the pinnacle of the world’s vocal art is no surprise: both the singer and the woman radiate that aura reserved for the greatest!
The breadth of her voice, her beautifully sustained phrasing combined with flawless virtuosity allow her to triumph across diverse repertoires. Her early career was marked by Baroque music (Orphée et Eurydice, Giulio Cesare, Orlando Furioso…). Soon, the evolution of her voice enabled her to embrace the 19th-century French repertoire (Les Troyens, Samson et Dalila, Carmen, Werther…), Rossini (Tancredi, L’Italiana in Algeri…), Verdi (Falstaff, Il Trovatore, Un Ballo in Maschera, Aïda…) as well as Wagner (Der Ring des Nibelungen).
She pursues an international career that takes her to the world’s greatest opera stages (New York, Milan, London, Paris, Salzburg, Zurich, Vienna, Madrid, Brussels…) as well as concert halls, where Marie-Nicole Lemieux is invited to perform major symphonic works with the most prestigious orchestras and conductors.
Marie-Nicole Lemieux is a Chevalier of the National Order of Quebec, a Companion of Arts and Letters of Quebec, a member of the Order of Canada and of the Ordre de la Pléiade. She also holds an honorary doctorate from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi.
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