Residents Companies

This 2007-2008 season will mark the 51th anniversary of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal. Since its founding by Ludmilla Chiriaeff in 1957, the company has presented a wide variety of ballets ranging from the great classics to groundbreaking 20th century works by Balanchine, Jooss, Nijinsky, and many others. It has fostered the emergence of artists who went on to international renown, like Fernand Nault, James Kudelka, Édouard Lock and Ginette Laurin. Les Grands Ballets also stands out for presenting the works of up-and-coming choreographers like Kim Brandstrup, Stijn Celis and Didy Veldman. As well, the company has collaborated with today’s top choreographers, including Jiří Kylián, Mats Ek, Nacho Duato and Ohad Naharin. They all love working with Les Grands Ballets, thanks to the talent and calibre of the company’s dancers.
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Opéra de Montréal has been founded on January 30, 1980. It ranks today among the 15 most important opera companies in North America. Since its creation, it offered 852 performances of 86 operas, 2 premieres, 49 new productions and several collaborations with various opera companies. Each year, Opéra de Montréal presents 4 operas from the great repertoire, and one production by its Atelier lyrique. Pierre Dufour is the General Director (since August 2006) and Michel Beaulac its Artistic Director (since April 2007).
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Founded in 1934 by a group of devoted music lovers, with the backing of the Québec Government, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal is one of the major cultural organizations of the city whose name it bears with pride.
The music directors who have contributed to its growth and success are Wilfrid Pelletier, a Montrealer by birth and conductor at the Metropolitan Opera in New York who became the first Artistic Director of the OSM; Désiré Defauw; Igor Markevitch; Zubin Mehta, who guided the OSM from 1961 to 1967, bringing increased prestige to the Orchestra since under his direction the OSM began its touring career in Europe; Franz-Paul Decker; Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos; Charles Dutoit, from 1977 to 2002, with whom the OSM assumed an important place on the international stage; and, since September 2006, Kent Nagano.
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