Shows for all tastes and ages to get you in the holiday spirit.
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The chorus of Y’a du monde at Mass
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The chorus of Y’a du monde at Mass
Y’a du monde à messe’s team of all-star choristers, which includes Kim Richardson, Coral Egan and Frank Julian, have just released a first Christmas album, Just after November, consisting of original tracks composed by were the director musical Alex McMahon. Hosted by Christian Bégin, the 10 performers who are the source of the songs will be on the road throughout December. She and she will take their powerful voices and energy across Quebec stages, with a passage at Montreal’s Outremont Theater on December 15th.
Damien Robaille
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Damien Robaille
Soon it will be Christmas is the title of the album Damien Robitaille released for the 2019 holiday season. The singer-songwriter brings his charming and benevolent universe to the stage in a show directed by Laurent Paquin. He’ll be singing his original songs as well as Christmas classics, but the one-man band, which will be surrounded by several musicians and choristers for the occasion, will take the opportunity to perform some of the famous songs of the day, which he’s been broadcasting on the internet since beginning of the pandemic.
Christmas a tradition in song
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The show’s female cast: Johanne Blouin, Joe Bocan, Shirley Théroux, Martine St-Clair and Luce Dufault
In just under five years, the show Noël une tradition en chanson has become a must during the Christmas season. The participating artists this year are Johanne Blouin, Joe Bocan, Luce Dufault, Martine St-Clair, Shirley Théroux, the trad group Suroît and the French opera singer Vincent Niclo. The staging of this show, where everything is done to make you feel good, is in charge of Joël Legendre, the musical direction is Jacques Roy.
All from Live from the Universe
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All from Live from the Universe
The talented choristers and musicians from the En direct de l’univers program released a very nice Christmas album last year called Christmas as before. The band of Jason McNally, Virginie Cummins and Jean-Benoit Lasanté bring their talent and zest for life to the stage this year with La vivée du temps des Fêtes, a festive show where you can hear original songs, folklore and traditional Christmas repertoire. But we bet there will be a little place for sweetness and melancholy, too, like the show of which they are the beating heart.
Christmas in the park
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Singer-songwriter Maryse Letarte, narrator of Christmas in the Park
Another holiday classic is Noël dans le parc, which takes place in three Montreal parks, but the focal point is Émilie Gamelin Park near the Berri-UQAM metro station. The festival, in its 29th edition, offers dozens of shows between December 3rd and 31st. Only on the first evening we will be able to see Maryse Letarte, speaker of the event, then Salomé Leclerc and the group Lendemain deveille. But the program is rich and varied, offering a happy mix of emerging and established artists, appealing to all types of audiences, from Ari Cuicui to Laurence Nerbonne.
Metropolitan Orchestra
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Kim Richardson
The Orchester Métropolitain (OM) conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the two magnificent voices of Mélissa Bédard and Kim Richardson, the jazz trio of Montreal pianist Taurey Butler with arrangements by Antoine Gratton, the OM Choir: with more than 200 artists on the stage and a diverse repertoire ranging from Duke Ellington to great classics from Quebec and Americas, the show Des airs de fête is one of the most ambitious of the season. Only this Saturday’s performance is still on the program, but the holiday concerts are not over for OM, who will be performing Bach’s Mass in B minor on December 18th.
Pop-up show Christmas special
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Chloee Deblois
Comedian and presenter Chloée Deblois is bringing her pop-up show – traveling comedy shows aiming to introduce the next generation – to Club Soda. For the occasion, the event takes on a much larger dimension, with a good dozen comedians on the program, including Mathieu Pepper, Jo Cormier and Mégan Brouillard, a group of musicians and an evening that turns into a big party of the time Festivals . A unique event that promises to go crazy and festive presents on December 15th.
Guylaine Tanguay, Roch Voisine and the Orchester symphonique de Longueuil
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Alexandre Da Costa, Guylaine Tanguay and Roch Voisine, from the show Parapapam
Led by the very dynamic Conductor and Music Director of the OSL Alexandre Da Costa, the Parapapam show will take place from December 26th to 31st at the Maison symphonique. It includes popular singers Roch Voisine and Guylaine Tanguay, soprano Giorgia Fumanti and baritone Vladimir Korneev, and 125 choristers including Les Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal conducted by Frédéric Vogel. For a happy evening in a magical setting that wanders between classic and popular melodies. In addition, Alexandre Da Costa presents a Christmas concert with Marie Michèle Desrosiers with the OSL. Two performances at the Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue co-cathedral in Vieux-Longueuil and one at the Saint-Viateur church in Outremont.
Christmas at the Opera
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The three members of the Ensemble Lyrico
After a great success last year, the Canadian ensemble Lyrico, consisting of the singers Marco Bocchicchio, Sam Champagne and Ian Sabourin, returns to the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier with its Noël à l’opéra show. He will perform many carols that lend themselves well to opera but will add an Italian touch to the evening singing great tunes such as Brindisi from La Traviata, Funiculi Funicula and Core’ngrato. The singers are accompanied by the FILMharmonic Choir and Orchestra, 85 musicians and singers under the direction of Francis Choinière.
The choristers
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François L’Écuyer takes on the role of Clément Mathieu in Les choristes.
Strictly speaking, it’s not a Christmas show, but it’s certainly a work that tickles our melancholic holiday mood. After an immense success in 2018 and 2019, this adaptation by Serge Denoncourt of the very beautiful film Les choristes is back from December 28th. Sweetness, tenderness, solidarity and music are on the menu of this play that brings together Little Singers from Laval and Mount Royal to embody the young choristers, as well as François L’Écuyer in the role of the unforgettable professor Clément Mathieu and Sacha Bolduc that of the young Mongeau.
Corteo at the Bell Center
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Scene from Corteo
Written and directed by Daniel Finzi Pasca, Corteo was first shown in a circus tent in Montreal in 2005 and its success since then has been undeniable. After playing the Bell Center in 2018, it’s back on December 21 as part of a North American arena tour. Set in a carnival atmosphere, this poetic Cirque du Soleil show has enough magic and sweet madness to fit into the holiday spirit.
Christian Marc Gendron
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Christian Marc Gendron
Slightly under the mainstream media radar, singer and impersonator Christian Marc Gendron has been performing his shows Piano Man Experience and Piano Man 2 to huge acclaim in recent years. With the singer Manon Séguin and surrounded by a group of eight musicians, until December 28, he will incorporate into his show special festive numbers that evoke the evenings of the Christmas season, with songs from the album Noël à trois that he published with Manon Seguin two years ago.