News Releases

  1. The National Arts Centre celebrates the Year of the North Orchestra tour this fall, major Northern Festival spring 2013

    October 23, 2012

    OTTAWA—Canada’s National Arts Centre (NAC) is celebrating the Year of the North with two major artistic projects: the Northern Canada Tour of the NAC Orchestra in the Fall of 2012, and the Northern Scene in the Spring of 2013, when the NAC will invite Northern artists back to Ottawa for a major festival featuring 250 of the best established and emerging artists. From October 26 to... Read more

  2. Call for nominations for the National Arts Centre Award for Distinguished Contribution to Touring

    October 19, 2012

    Ottawa (Canada) —The National Arts Centre and the Canadian Arts Presenting Association (CAPACOA) are once again extending a call for nominations for the National Arts Centre Award for Distinguished Contribution to Touring. The deadline for nominations is Friday, November 16, 2012. The National Arts Centre award will be presented at a special dinner on Saturday, January 26, during... Read more

  3. Violin Virtuoso James Ehnes gives a dazzling start to NAC Orchestra's Northern Canada Tour

    October 17, 2012

    The third Ovation Series concert of the NAC Orchestra’s 2012-2013 season -- conducted by Arild Remmereit -- features extraordinary Manitoba-born violin virtuoso James Ehnes. Mr Ehnes joins the NAC Orchestra to dazzle audiences with two of Saint-Saëns’s Spanish-inspired concertos – both full of melodic brilliance and technical fireworks. The concert also features music by... Read more

  4. The NAC French Theatre launches two new clubs: Les Y and Les Affamés!

    October 16, 2012

    Les Y Eager to introduce a group of ten neophytes to the many facets of the art of theatre, this club is for generation Y drama novices (aged 18 to 34) keen to discover more about theatre. This  incisive initiatory voyage, whereby participants are able to attend free of charge three key performances during the 2012-2013 Théâtre français season, combines... Read more

  5. National Arts Centre Electrifies Dance Stage with Brazil's Grupo Corpo Friday and Saturday, October 26-27in Southam Hall at 8 pm

    October 15, 2012

    Back by popular demand, contemporary Brazilian tour de force  Grupo Corpo returns with an evening of National Arts Centre premieres. Infused with classical training, modern dance, and sensual Brazilian street dance, the unmistakably loose-limbed and erotically expressive style of Grupo Corpo will be on full display in Ímã and Sem Mim, in Southam Hall on Friday October 26,... Read more

  6. Conductor Bernard Labadie, Quebec City’s Les Violons du Roy, and internationally renowned flutist Emmanuel Pahud inaugurate the National Arts Centre Orchestra’s 2012-2013 Great Performers Series with a program of Baroque showpieces on October 21

    October 15, 2012

    The first Great Performers concert of the NAC Orchestra 2012-2013 season -- conducted by Bernard Labadie -- features internationally acclaimed Les Violons du Roy performing music by J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Franz Benda, Johann Joachim Quantz, and the music-loving Frederick the Great, who was a King in Prussia (1740–1772) and a King of Prussia (1772–1786) from the Hohenzollern dynasty.... Read more

  7. NEWS RELEASE: The National Arts Centre celebrates the “Year of the North” Orchestra tour this fall, major Northern Festival spring 2013

    October 11, 2012

    OTTAWA—Canada’s National Arts Centre (NAC) is celebrating the “Year of the North” with two major artistic projects: the “Northern Canada Tour” of the NAC Orchestra in the Fall of 2012 and the “Northern Scene” in the Spring of 2013, when the NAC will invite Northern artists back to Ottawa for a major festival featuring 250 of the best established... Read more

  8. “The Little Prince” opens the TD Family Adventures with the NAC Orchestra series on October 13 | Concerts mark the first appearance for Alain Trudel as the NAC Orchestra’s new Principal Youth and Family Conductor

    October 9, 2012

    OTTAWA--The National Arts Centre Orchestra invites families to discover Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince and the characters in his fantastic universe through a musical tale overflowing with imagination, mystery and emotion in two concerts on October 13, 2012, at 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. in the NAC’s Southam Hall.   The production by L’Arsenal à... Read more

  9. The National Arts Centre English Theatre/Neptune Theatre (Halifax, NS) co-production in celebration of Neptune Theatre’s 50th Anniversary The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum by Wendy Lill a play based on the novel by Sheldon Currie Directed by Mary Vingoe Featuring the NAC English Theatre Company October 16 – November 3, 2012 NAC Theatre

    October 4, 2012

    Ottawa, Ontario – The NAC celebrates the 50th anniversary of Halifax’s Neptune Theatre with a work that embodies the theatre of Nova Scotia. In Glace Bay, romance blossoms between Neil Currie – a musician and misfit with limited job prospects – and scrappy Margaret MacNeil, a coal miner’s daughter. But behind it all, a strike and a mining disaster loom over the... Read more

  10. Political Pawn. Teenage Queen. Lover. Victim. Marie-Antoinette. National Arts Centre Inaugurates the 2012-2013 Ballet Season with the Canadian Premiere of Marie by Houston Ballet

    October 3, 2012

    OTTAWA, October 3, 2012 — Ottawa hosts the Canadian premiere of Artistic Director Stanton Welch's Marie. Thursday October 18, Friday October 19, and Saturday October 20, 2012 at 8 p.m. Southam Hall. All performances feature the National Arts Centre Orchestra. Internationally acclaimed Houston Ballet performs a three-act narrative ballet inspired by the life of the legendary French... Read more