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Payare Featured in BBC Music Profile

Journalist Clive Paget wrote a substantial profile of Rafael Payare for the July 2025 issue of BBC Music Magazine.  It was the Viennese critic Hermann Bahr who likened Mahler’s arrival in a hotel lobby to a gust of wind forcing open a window, or water bursting from a pipe. There’s something similarly elemental about Rafael Payare,...

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Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Announces its 2025–26 Season

The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal unveiled its 2025–2026 season, which is Rafael Payare’s 4th season as Music Director. The OSM will be joined by an array of renowned artists from near and far, including many anticipated return performances and a great diversity of repertoires. This will be a season of symphonic masterworks, symphonic happy hours,...

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Guest Conducting Engagement with Royal Opera

This spring, Rafael Payare returns to London’s Royal Opera House to lead Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role of Puccini’s Turandot (March 19–April 4). The cast also includes SeokJong Baek as Calaf, Anna Princeva and Gemma Summerfield alternating the role of Liù, and Adam Palka as Timur. After Payare’s 2023 debut at the Royal Opera...

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Payare Returns to Philadelphia Orchestra

Rafael Payare’s first guest conducting appearance in the new year is with the Philadelphia Orchestra, where he conducts German violinist Carolin Widmann in Kaija Saariaho’s Graal théâtre along with Ravel’s Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloé and Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique” Symphony (Jan 23–26). When the conductor made his debut in Philadelphia in 2021, the Wall Street...

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Rafael Payare, OSM, and Guest Soloist Daniil Trifonov Triumph on European Tour

Rafael Payare and his Orchestre symphonique de Montréal received rave reviews for their November 2024 European tour with guest artist Daniil Trifonov. Beginning in London at the Barbican Theatre, Payare and his OSM were joined by soloist Javier Perianes for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 on opening night. The program also included Iman Habibi’s Jeder...

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