COMPANY : HISTORY
Productions, workshops and collaborations

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Under the artistic direction of Suzie LeBlanc (Montreal) le Nouvel Opera has produced:

2005

A full staging of La Conversione di Clodoveo by Antonio Caldara

Produced in collaboration with Early Music Vancouver and Iconfidenti Berlin
Performed in Montreal, Vancouver, Potsdam, Germany
Directed by Guillaume Bernardi
Musical Direction: Alexander Weimann

2005

Recording of La Conversione di Clodoveo for Atma Classique.
To be released in Fall 2009.

2006

Mozart a Milano: a fully staged two part theatrical event based on Mozart's Italian Journeys: a “Festa Teatrale” with scenes from his operas La finta Semplice, Lucio Silla and La Finta Giardiniera and Il Concerto Sacro featuring the most famous work he composed in Italy, exultate Jubilate as well as other sacred works by Mozat and his Italian contemporaries.

Produced in collaboration with Iconfidenti Berlin for Festival MontrealBaroque
Performed in Montreal and Germany
Staging: Marie-Nathalie Lacoursiere
Musical Direction: Alexander Weimann

2006

Concert perfomance of Paradiso & Inferno – a concert exploring the legacy of the castrati featuring acclaimed American Male Soprano Michael Maniaci
Presented and produced by Early Music Vancouver
Musical Direction: Alexander Weimann

2007

Concert Performance of Handel's La Resurezzione
Presented and produced by Early Music Vancouver
Performed in Vancouver
Musical Direction Alexander Weimann

2007

Worshop and staging of L'Incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi in collaboration with L'Atelier d'opera of Universite de Montreal.

Musical Direction: Alexander Weimann
Musical coaching: Suzie LeBlanc
Staging: Marie Nathalie Lacoursiere

2007

Workshop for L'Atelier Lyrique de L'Opera de Montreal

2008

Concert Performance of Rameau's Pygmalion presented and produced by Early Music Vancouver performed in Vancouver. Musical Direction Alexander Weimann.

2008

Workshop on Monteverdi's L’Incoronazione di Poppea at Festival de Musique Ancienne de Sackville Mount Allison University

2009

Workshop The Secular Music of Henri Purcell presented in collaboration with the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal and the Festival Montréal Baroque 2009.

2009

Concert Performance of Purcell's Faerie Queene presented and produced by Early Music Vancouver performed in Vancouver. Musical direction Alexander Weimann.

2010

Workshop Monteverdi’s style and early italian composers in collaboration with the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal and the Festival Montréal Baroque 2010

Production Visibilia , presented at Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur (July 31st 2010), at the Orford Festival of Arts during the Kent Nagano’s week (August 1st 2010), and at the Early Music Vancouver Festival (August 2010) : based on Monteverdi’s Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda and Lamento della ninfa.

Production La Belle danse presented at the Edmonton Music Festival in November 2010.

2011

Antonio Caldara’s La Conversione di Clodoveo relese on ATMA classique.

Workshop presented in collaboration with the University of Montreal from June 25th to 29th. The main focus of the course will be Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Intermedi for Molière’s “Le Malade Imaginaire”.

Production Lully’s Le Ballet de l’Impatience de Lully presented at the Festival Montréal Baroque June 23rd 2011.