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JOLIETTE, Quebec — The Lanaudière Festival has a long history of playing host to headline singers.

Gustavo Gimeno and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra opened their season Thursday in Roy Thomson Hall with Carmina Burana and the 2024 Concerto for Orchestra by Wynton Marsalis.

MONTREAL — No question: Bourgie Hall is the premier setting in town for recitals and chamber concerts, by virtue of its central location, its historical ambiance — Tiffany windows adorn the otherwise somber interior of the former Erskine and American Church — and its formidable array of high-caliber bookings. On Oct. 2, the room opened its 15th season with a solid evening of standards performed by pianist Leif Ove Andsnes

MONTREAL — Twenty-five, thirteen, and seven years: These are the durations, respectively, of Yannick Nézet-Séguin's directorships of the Orchestre

MILAN — A masterly synthesis of balanced drama, pitch-perfect music, and deep human perception, Così fan tutte can be confidently presented with a minimum of directorial intervention.

Handel’s Messiah returns every year to Roy Thomson Hall under the auspices of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, in 2025 under the baton of British conductor Michael Francis.

Gamers will have a reason to get out of the house on Nov. 12, 2017 when the OM presents the Montreal Video Game Symphony.

MONTREAL — Arguably the most pictorially lavish of all operas, at least when spared the indignities of a postmodern refit, Turandot might seem an offbeat choice for concert presentation.

ATLANTA — This city has become a destination for Wagnerians. Atlanta Opera recently finished a run of at the suburban Cobb Energy Performing Arts