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SENSATIONAL OP • 68th CONCERT SEASON

PROGRAM 1 • 2024-2025 • MAgnum Opus Series

Saturday, November 16  2024 • 7pm | Regent Theatre (Oshawa)

SPLENDID WATER SOUNDSCAPES • WITH SPECIAL GUEST REMIGIO

Composers through the ages have been fascinated with the theme of water – water in all its guises including the sea, lakes, rivers, streams, rain, fog, mist, fountains and so forth. This program presents some of the most iconic and fascinating representations of water by some of the greatest symphonists in all music, culminating with the uncontested magnum opus that is Claude Debussy’s “La Mer” (The Sea). Additionally, it is our pleasure to present our very special guest: The spectacular tenor, Remigio, one of the great vocal talents of Canada, joins OP to fill your heart and soul with gorgeous and moving songs.
"Music of the Night" from Phantom of the Opera
Remigio Pereira, tenor
Fountains of Rome
La Mer
Intermission
The Moldau
Kalamalka Colours: Concertante for Violin and Orchestra
Hanna Kim, soloist
Core 'ngrato
Remigio Pereira, tenor
Ave Maria (Meditation)
Remigio Pereira, tenor
Bedrich SMETANA
James HARLEY 🍁

Salvatore CARDILLO

J.S. BACH /Charles GOUNOD
Andrew LLOYD-WEBBER

Ottorino RESPIGHI
Claude DEBUSSY

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SENSATIONAL OP • 68th CONCERT SEASON

PROGRAM 2 • classical pops SERIES

Saturday, November 30, 2024 • 8pm | Regent Theatre Oshawa

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Sergey Smbatyan

NUTCRACKER • A HOLIDAY SEASON TRADITION!

The magic of Tchaikovsky’s celebrated Nutcracker comes to Ontario Philharmonic • This magisterial and iconic ballet for the Holiday Season is presented in its full orchestral version with engaging multimedia projections, giving you the opportunity to follow the story plot while immersed in the glorious sounds of the orchestra.
Act II
Guest Conductor: Sergey Smbatyan
Intermission
Nutcracker• Ballet in 2 Acts  Op.71
With image projections by Alain Sauvion
Act I
Piotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY

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SENSATIONAL OP • 68th CONCERT SEASON

PROGRAM 3 • pops SERIES

Friday, December 20, 2024 • 8pm | Regent Theatre (Oshawa)

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lighthouse

‘TIS THE SEASON WITH LIGHTHOUSE •  ROCKIN' THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT WITH LIGHTHOUSE & OP STRINGS

All of your favourite Lighthouse major hits - One Fine Morning - Sunny Days - Pretty Lady - Hats Off To The Stranger - 1849 - Take It Slow - You Girl and Christmas standards ‘rockified’ by none other than, Paul Hoffert, Lighthouse co-founder. Chances are, as you're reading the titles of these classics, you’re singing them in your head and smiling. Each remains heard daily on Apple Music, Spotify, radio, television, and home sound systems after 54 years plus of continuous play. For a generation of Canadians and worldwide fans, Lighthouse was the soundtrack of their lives.

Ontario Philharmonic’s Strings are proud to share the stage with the iconic Canadian sensation - Lighthouse, for this benefit concert, certain to take you back to some of the best times of your life.
LIGHTHOUSE   
Paul HOFFERT 🍁

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SENSATIONAL OP • 68th CONCERT SEASON

PROGRAM 4 • soloists SERIES

Saturday, February 22  2025 • 8pm | Regent Theatre Oshawa

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marco parisotto zee zee

FLAMBOYANT FRANZ LISZT RESONATES WITH ZEE ZEE

1st prize at China's 1st International Piano Concerto Competition, one of the most sought-after young artists of her generation, remarkable pianist Zee Zee visits OP for the first time, performing a piano warhorse: Liszt’s dizzying 2nd Piano Concerto • One of Maestro Marco Parisotto’s most beloved symphonists, Anton Bruckner, is on the menu in celebration of his 200th Anniversary: A Bruckner symphony always promises to be a very distinct event.
Symphony no.7 in E major, WAB 107 (Ed. Haas)
Intermission
Piano Concerto No.2 in A major, S.125
Zee Zee, piano soloist
Franz LISZT
Anton BRUCKNER

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SENSATIONAL OP • 68th CONCERT SEASON

PROGRAM 5 • soloists SERIES

Friday, March 14  2025 • 8pm | Regent Theatre Oshawa

CONCERTO BLAST II • OP STARS TAKE THE STAGE

An audience favourite, back by popular demand, Ontario Philharmonic presents OP’s wonderful musicians performing in an evening of exciting and thrilling concertos for a variety of solo instruments. With the Ontario Philharmonic Ensemble accompanying them, our lead musicians perform perpetually treasured concertos giving you, our cherished audience, a unique chance at acquainting yourself more closely to OP’s individual musical personalities. Best hits by Handel, Mozart, Bach, Gershwin and others will resonate in the acoustics of the Regent Theater, guaranteed to imbue your senses with an exhilarating musical experience.
Concerto for Horn No.3 in E-flat major, K447
• Paolo Rosselli, horn soloist (IIIrd Horn)
Bachianas brasileiras no.5: Aria (arr. Jamin Hoffman)
• Mansur Kadirov, cello soloist (Guest Principal Cello)
Brandenburg Concerto No.2, BWV 1047 in F major
Andrew Mendis, trumpet soloist (Guest Trumpet)
Ricci Ebron, flute soloist (Guest Flute)
Tyler Romesberg, oboe soloist (Guest Principal Oboe)
Hanna Kim, violin soloist (Concertmaster)
Intermission
Concerto for Harp in B-flat major, Op.4 No.6, HWV 294
• Liane James, harp soloist (Principal Harp)
Csárdás (Arr. Percy Hall)
Hwaeun Stella Song, violin soloist (Assistant Concertmaster)
Concerto for Piccolo in C major RV443
Sophie Lanthier, piccolo soloist (Associate Principal Flute)
Promenade (Walking the Dog)
David Gazaille, clarinet soloist (Principal Clarinet)
Chaconne (arr. Guido Guerrini)
Hanna Kim, violin soloist (Concertmaster)
George Frederic HANDEL

Vittorio MONTI

Antonio VIVALDI

George GERSHWIN

Tommaso Antonio VITALI
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART

Heitor VILLA-LOBOS

Johann Sebastian BACH

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SENSATIONAL OP • 68th CONCERT SEASON

PROGRAM 6 • Magnum Opus Series

Saturday, April 26  2025 • 8pm | Regent Theatre Oshawa

ORCHESTRAL FIREWORKS

The young virtuoso Tony Yike Yang joins OP for his return performance playing Bartok’s riveting, wild and haunting 2nd Piano Concerto
• Maestro Marco Parisotto and OP perform one of the most cherished and heart-wrenching symphonies in the whole repertoire: Tchaikovsky’s Sixth, the “Pathétique”
Symphony no.6 in b minor, op.74
Intermission
Piano Concerto No.2, S.124
• Tony Yike Yang, piano soloist
Bela BARTOK
Piotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY

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