From January 10 to 13, OPM celebrates the New Year with a series of festive concerts. It offers a selection of rhythmic pieces, with compositions by great masters such as Arturo Márquez, Manuel de Falla, Alberto Ginastera, and the great Leonard Bernstein.
To start the year 2025 in style, the Moroccan Philharmonic Orchestra invites its audience to a series of festive concerts. These concerts, which will be held from January 10 to 13 in Casablanca, Fez and Rabat, will offer a sonic journey to the heart of Latin music, with a sunny program that promises to make the audience dance. “Under the direction of one of today’s most notable conductors, Venezuelan Christian Vásquez, the Moroccan Philharmonic Orchestra will highlight the captivating rhythms of Latin America, with iconic works and popular Latin tunes,” indicates the OPM.
In this context, the program shows a selection of rhythmic pieces, with compositions by great masters such as Arturo Márquez, Manuel de Falla, Alberto Ginastera, and the great Leonard Bernstein. “This series of concerts is an invitation to party and celebration, a moment of sharing to give great momentum to the new year that is beginning. The 70 musicians of the orchestra will transport you into a warm and festive atmosphere, where music will be the common thread of a symphony evening like no other,” adds the same source. As a reminder, the OPM was created in 1996. It is made up of eighty professional musicians.
Each season, the Orchestra gives around fifty concerts, offering its audience a wide variety of programs spanning three centuries of music, from the great symphonic repertoire to contemporary music, including opera and chamber music. This anchoring in the Moroccan cultural landscape has made it possible to give its letters of nobility to the profession of musician. The Moroccan Philharmonic Orchestra has been recognized as a public utility association and has become, in its 28 years of existence, the benchmark for classical music in Morocco.
For the past 28 years, the Moroccan Philharmonic Orchestra has benefited from privileged contact with guest artists and conductors. Among which: Emmanuelle Bertrand, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Marc Coppey, Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Victor Julien Laferrière, Laurent Korcia, Paul Meyer, Jean-François Zygel, Nicolas Brochot, Hervé Niquet, Wolfgang Doerner, Christophe Quatremer, Laurent Petitgirard, Emmanuelle Bertrand or even Xavier Phillips who, with the tips of their fingers, bows or sticks, participated in the creation of a true musical identity of the Moroccan Philharmonic Orchestra. Alongside its first guest conductor and artistic advisor Olivier Holt, the Orchestra today explores all repertoires, both with rigor and passion.
Dates and locations
• Casablanca – Mohammed VI Theater
Friday January 10 and Saturday January 11, 2025 – 8 p.m.
• Fez – Batha Room
Sunday January 12, 2025 – 5 p.m.
• Rabat – Mohammed V Theater
Monday January 13, 2025 – 8 p.m.
