A dark double bill from the Opéra de Montréal
Early out of the gate in announcing a 2021-22 season, the Opéra de Montréal on Saturday became one of the first Canadian companies to stage…
Browsing: Rafael Payare
Rafael Payare – A New Era for the OSM
“It makes things a little bit easier if you think about it,” Rafael Payare said about the travel implications of his new position as music…
Editorial (September 2021)
Welcome to the eighth issue of La Scena Musicale published in the midst of the continuing pandemic. This is not the way we imagined the…
Rafael Payare recovering from COVID-19
Incoming OSM music director Rafael Payare hopes to leave something behind him when he travels to Montreal in September: a case of COVID-19. “Of course…
Classics prevail in Payare’s first OSM season
Rafael Payare will be in masterpiece mode for his inaugural season at the helm of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. The Venezuelan conductor’s indoor opening…
Payare and the MSO: a successful Act 3
Ah, the soft stuff. The lilting second theme of the first movement of Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony, the uneasy calm of the coda. The final two bars of…
Industry News
Battleground: Brahms For 10 days in March home viewers will be able to compare the old upstart, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, with the new kid on the…
Payare in a mellow mood
No big symphony on the second webcast by Rafael Payare and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. Unless we count Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 in C…
The OSM Announces a Series of Five Online Concerts
Montreal, January 14, 2021 – The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal announces a series of five new concerts to be broadcast on OSM.CA between January 19…
Solid start for Payare, maybe more to come
Went well, as they say. There were no calamities to report after the webcast debut on Sunday of Rafael Payare as the music-director-to-be of the Montreal…
