The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ Bourgie Hall has announced its 2026-27 season. Here are the vocal performances on offer.

Concerto di Margherita opens the season with “Love’s Blindness – Il gioco della cieca,” a program of Italian Renaissance vocal and instrumental music by such composers as Caccnini, Monteveri, Kapsberger, D’India, and Frescobaldi, among others.

Performance Date: Sept. 24, 2026

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As part of the Festival international de la littérature, Bourgie Hall presents a concert honoring National Truth and Reconciliation Day, featuring a text by Natasha Kanapé Fontaine set to music by Cris Derksen and performed by Élisabeth St-Gelais.

Performance Date: Sept. 30, 2026

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Simon Leclerc and Gilles Vigneault present “A Musical Meeting,” featuring the world premiere of a song cycle for voice and piano based on poems by Vigneault. Baritone Hugo Laporte and pianist Olivier Godin perform.

Performance Date: Oct. 3, 2026

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Soprano Elisabeth St-Gelais performs “Le Récital des Anges” alongside Orchestre de l”Agora, under Nicolas Ellis. The showcase features works by Sophie Lacaze, Debussy, Poulenc, and Cusson.

Performance Date: Oct. 6, 2026

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Soprano Sophie Klussmann and lutanist Hopkinson Smith perform works by John Dowland.

Performance Date: Oct. 30, 2026

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Artists of the Opéra de Montréal’s Atelier Lyrique, including Grace Budoloski, Ellita Gagner, Colin Mackey, Dante Mulline Santone, Odile Portugais, and Jeremy Scinocca will present a Schubert concert. Tony Stauffer and Francis Perron join at the piano.

Performance Date: Nov. 25, 2026

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Les Violons du Roy, under Bernard Labadie, will present Rameau’s “Les Indes galantes.”

Performance Date: Nov. 27, 2026

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Ensemble Correspondances performs early cantatas by J.S. Bach. Sébastien Daucé leads. The concert includes Caroline Weynants, Lucile Richardot, Richard Pittsinger, and Lysandre Châlon as the vocal soloists.

Performance Date: Dec. 2, 2026

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Opera Prima performs “Tormento Seicento,” with Amanda Forsythe as the soloist. The program includes music by Monteverdi, Rossi, Merula, Mazzocchi, Rore, Strozzi, an Sartorio, among many others.

Performance Date: Jan. 20, 2027

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Anthony Roth Costanzo and Bryan Wagorn perform works by Philip Glass.

Performance Date: Jan. 26, 2027

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As part of Black History Month, countertenor Reginald Mobley and pianist Baptiste Trotignon present “Because: A Concert of Spirituals.”

Performance Date: Feb. 23, 2027

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Ensemble Les Ondes performs Händel’s “Delirio amoroso” with Anna-Sophie Neher as the vocal soloist. The program is led by Mélisande McNabney and features other works by Händel.

Performance Date: Feb. 27, 2027

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Les Idées heureuses, under Geneviève Soly, leads a performance of works by Graupner with Andréanne Brisson Paquin, William Duffy, Arthur Tanguay-Labrosse, and Olivier Bergeron as the vocal soloists.

Performance Date: March 26, 2027

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Contralto Rose Naggar-Tremblay headlines a concert alongside Les Violons du Roy, under Kyrian Friedenberg. The showcase features works by Corelli, Händel, Respighi, and Rota.

Performance Date: June 5, 2027