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Saturday, April 26, 2025 – 4 pm
Bourgie Hall
1339, Sherbrooke West
Montréal, H3G 1G2
Bus : 24 – stop De la Montagne
Métro : Guy-Concordia, Peel or Lucien-L’Allier
Masterful architecture, a variety of textures and atmospheres, powerful dual choirs, spectacular instruments, sensually beautiful melodic lines… everything works together to make hearing the Vespro della Beata Vergine, which Monteverdi published in 1610, a supreme artistic experience. For its 50th anniversary, the SMAM is returning to this masterpiece, which has lost none of its youthfulness and vitality… and which, over the years, the Studio has upheld so magnificently.
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Vespro della Beata Vergine da concerto, composta sopra canti fermi, pour solistes, double chœur, 2 flûtes à bec, 3 cornets à bouquin, 3 trombones, 3 violons, alto et basse continue (Venise, 1610)
Soloists
Anne-Marie Beaudette et Marie Magistry, sopranos
Nils Brown et Michiel Schrey, ténors
William Kraushaar et John Giffen, basses
Chorists – Soloists
Josée Lalonde, alto
Kerry Bursey, ténor
Chorists
Len Torrie et Rebecca Dowd, sopranos
Kristen De Marchi et Marie-Andrée Mathieu, altos
William Duffy, counter-tenor
Nathan LeLièvre, tenor
Kevin Marimbu et Noah Wright, basses
Instrumentistes
Sallynee Amawat et Shin Jimin, violons
Jacques-André Houle et Margaret Little, altos
Amanda Keesmaat, cello
Francis Palma-Pelletier, violone
Karim Nasr, dulciane
Alexa Raine-Wright et Vincent Lauzer, flûtes
Matthew Jennejohn, Roman Golovanov, Shawn Spicer, cornets
Dominique Lortie, Peter Christensen, Trevor Dix, sacqueboutes
Sylvain Bergeron, theorbo
Christophe Gauthier, organ
Andrew McAnerney, direction