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69th CONCERT SEASON

november 2025 • Signature Vocal Series

Saturday, November 1  2025 • 7:30pm | Regent Theatre (Oshawa)

ON STAGE WITH REMIGIO • THE GREATEST SONGS AND ARIAS • OP FUNDRAISER

Spectacular Canadian tenor, Remigio, one of the wonderful vocal talents of Canada, joins Maestro Marco Parisotto and the Ontario Philharmonic in a feast of some of the all-time best songs from musicals, tenor arias and superb orchestral interludes. A singer with artistry sure to melt your heart with enchanting favourites like O Sole Mio, Caruso, Circle of Life, as well as his very own compositions.

Maurice RAVEL

Alborada del gracioso (The Jester’s Aubade), 4th movement from “Mirroirs”

Remigio PEREIRA / Josée Chantal Pilon 🍁

Bon Matin • Moderato

Caco VELHO / Piratini

Mãe Preta • Moderato quasi Allegretto • Remigio Pereira, tenor

Remigio PEREIRA 🍁

Fogo do Ceu, for Guitar and Orchestra (World Premiere)
Remigio Pereira, guitar

Manuel de FALLA

El Sombrero de Tres Picos, Suite No. 2

Georges BIZET

CARMEN: Andante moderato (Prélude to Act III)
CARMEN: Don José - “La Fleur que tu m’avais jetée”
• Remigio Pereira, tenor
INTERMISSION

Elton JOHN

"Circle of Life" from Lion King
Remigio Pereira, tenor

Remigio PEREIRA 🍁

Don't You Fall • Adagio
Remigio Pereira, tenor

Richard STRAUSS

SALOME, Scene IV: Dance of the Seven Veils TrV215a

Remigio PEREIRA 🍁

Dies Irae (World Premiere)
Remigio Pereira, tenor

Lucio DALLA

Caruso
Remigio Pereira, tenor / guitar

Richard STRAUSS

ROSENKAVALIER SUITE, arranged by Marco Parisotto

Eduardo di CAPUA

O sole mio
Remigio Pereira, tenor

69th CONCERT SEASON

december 2025 • Classical FavoUrites Series  

Saturday, December 13, 2025 • 7:30pm | Regent Theatre Oshawa

NUTCRACKER • A HOLIDAY SEASON TRADITION!

Iconic, quintessential, the magic of Tchaikovsky’s celebrated Nutcracker returns to Ontario Philharmonic • This magisterial 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 • OP welcomes Music Director of the State Opera of Altenburg-Gera (Germany) and the Israel Chamber Orchestra, conductor Ruben Gazarian, marking his Canadian debut on this occasion.

Piotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY

The Nutcracker, Op.71 • The celebrated ballet score in Concert-Version
Guest Conductor: Ruben Gazarian
With image projections by Alain Sauvion
Act I
INTERMISSION

Act II

69th CONCERT SEASON

DECEMBER 2025 • Classical pops SERIES

Friday, December 19, 2025 • 7:30pm | Regent Theatre (Oshawa)

‘TIS THE SEASON WITH THE ELMER ISELER SINGERS • CELEBRATING THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT CHRISTMAS CHORAL TREASURES

Ontario Philharmonic is thrilled to welcome to our stage the celebrated Elmer Iseler Singers with conductor, Lydia Adams.
This treasured holiday season program filled with spirited choral works and Christmas carols will remain ringing in your ears for days on end.  Fill your heart, your soul, your spirit with Christmas choral majesty and the brilliance of Ontario Philharmonic’s Brass Quintet and sing along!

69th CONCERT SEASON

JANUARY 2026 • Soloists Series

Saturday, January 24  2026 • 7:30pm | Regent Theatre Oshawa

CZECH THIS OUT! • SENSATIONAL SOUNDS FROM BOHEMIA

OP celebrates the fabulous music of Czech composers Bedrich Smetana and Antonin Dvorak in this program of symphonic favorites • Our distinguished guest, Chinese conductor Renchang Fu, leads our treasured orchestra in these much-loved and exciting works, adorned by “A Walk to Prague Railway Station” by our very own Composer-in-Residence, Samuel Bisson

Bedřich SMETANA

The Bartered Bride: Overture

Samuel BISSON OP Resident Composer

Une marche à la gare centrale de Prague  (A Walk to Prague Railway Station)

Bedřich SMETANA

Three Dances from The Bartered Bride:
Polka (Act I), Furiant (Act II), Dance of the Comedians (Act III)
INTERMISSION

Antonin DVORAK

Symphony no.7 in D minor, Op. 70, B 141
• Guest Conductor: Renchang Fu

69th CONCERT SEASON

JANUARY 2026 • Special Event Presented by Willow Arts

Friday January 30  &  Saturday 31  2026 • 8pm | Meridian Hall Toronto

DISTANT WORLDS: MUSIC FROM FINAL FANTASY CELEBRATING FINAL FANTASY XIV AND XVI

This special concert has music from FINAL FANTASY XIV, FINAL FANTASY XVI, and the entire FINAL FANTASY series, with HD video created by Square Enix just for this tour • Arnie Roth leads the Ontario Philharmonic and Chorus performing classic works by Nobuo Uematsu, Masashi Hamauzu, Masayoshi Soken, Yoko Shimomura, and other great FINAL FANTASY composers from throughout the FINAL FANTASY series, with a performance from FINAL FANTASY XIV and XVI original vocalist Amanda Achen, and FINAL FANTASY XVI composer Masayoshi Soken in attendance
• Don’t miss out on this multimedia concert experience!  More Details

SPECIAL CONCERT •  FINAL FANTASY SERIES

Works by Nobuo Uematsu, Masashi Hamauzu, Masayoshi Soken, Yoko Shimomura
Amanda Achen, vocal soloist
• ONTARIO PHILHARMONIC with Elmer Iseler Singers, chorus

69th CONCERT SEASON

MARCH 2026 • Magnum Opus Series

Friday, March 20  2026 • 7:30pm | Regent Theatre Oshawa

A SYMPHONIC TITAN • MAHLER’S EPIC 1st SYMPHONY

Pianist Haiou Zhang joins OP for the first time in the popular “Yellow River“ Concerto, a fantastic musical journey on this great Chinese river • One of the most thrilling symphonies ever written, Marco Parisotto and OP perform Gustav Mahler’s epic 1st Symphony, the “Titan” • Mahler expressed that "A symphony must be like the world, it must embrace everything.” • Composed when Mahler was twenty-eight, the Titan is filled with the sounds of Nature, it expresses melancholy, it is meditative, it exudes youthful exuberance and joy, and it ends blaring in the expression of the triumph of the human spirit • You won’t want to miss a beat of this outstanding work!

YIN Chengzong

“Yellow River” Piano Concerto  (Based on XIAN Xinghai)
1. Prelude: The Song of the Yellow River Boatmen (序曲:黄河船夫曲)
2. Ode to the Yellow River (黄河颂)
3. The Yellow River in Wrath (黄河愤)
4. Defend the Yellow River (保卫黄河)
Haiou Zhang, piano soloist
INTERMISSION

Gustav MAHLER

Symphony no.1 in D major, op.47

69th CONCERT SEASON

APRIL 2026 • Pops Series

Saturday, April 25 2026 • 7:30pm | Regent Theatre Oshawa

LAST MINUTE PROGRAM CHANGE
SHENG CAI PIANO

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