Festival de Lanaudière – From Carmen to Gershwin: Invitations to a journey Summer 2026
For the return of the great pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet to the Amphitheatre stage, a concerto is in order: Saint-Saëns’s celebrated Fifth, known as the “Egyptian,” of which he is today one of the foremost interpreters. The OSM and guest conductor Stéphane Denève join him in a program that brings together the abundant inventiveness and exotic flair of Gershwin with the most famous pages from Bizet’s opera Carmen, where music gives full theatrical voice to passion, seduction, and fate.
Artists
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
Stéphane Denève, conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Program
Jacques Ibert, Escales (14 min)
Camille Saint-Saëns, Piano Concerto no. 5, op. 103 (29 min)
I. Allegro animato
II. Andante
III. Molto allegro
Intermission (20 min)
Georges Bizet, Suite de Carmen
I. Les Toréadors (2 min 30)
II. Prélude et Aragonaise (3 min 30)
III. Intermezzo (2 min 45)
IV. Séguedille (2 min)
V. Les dragons d’Alcala (2 min)
VI. Habanera (2 min)
VII. La garde montante (2 min30) (with cut)
VIII. Danse Bohème (4 min 30)
George Gershwin, An American in Paris (16 min)
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