With the doors to theaters always locked, virtual events will be essential to entertain at home and get through the holiday season. Kiss’s explosive rock, tales, Christmas shows, traditional music, pop, humor, jazz, operas and classical concerts. The offer is plentiful and there is something for everyone. Here is a selection of Quebec and international webcast concerts that we can enjoy over the coming days and weeks.
Theater
Tales to pass the time
Five actors offer original winter tales and audio versions inspired by neighborhoods in Quebec City.
The Guy of Quebec
La Bordée theater presents a political satire that takes place in an imaginary Charlevoix village. A fun, clownish comedy that takes place on Christmas Eve.
CHRISTMAS SHOWS
Florent Vollant’s Christmas
Florent Vollant and his guests Scott Pien Picard, Matiu and Elisapie Isaac present a live Christmas show with an Aboriginal flavor.
Christmas with Mario Pelchat
The Orchester symphonique de Longueuil, under the direction of conductor Alexandre Da Costa, will offer a Christmas concert, with classical and pop tunes, in the company of Mario Pelchat.
- Until December 24
- osdl.ca
- 18 $
Christmas made easy
Guylaine Tanguay puts on a show where she will perform country-flavored holiday songs.
Christmas Symfolies
Laurence Jalbert, Annie Blanchard and Maxime Landry will present, well installed in a living room, a country Christmas concert which will address the pre-Christmas frenzy, the day before with its magic and the festive New Year’s Day.
Christmas – A tradition in song
Marie Michèle Desrosiers, Michaël Girard, Yves Lambert, Michel Louvain, Marie Denise Pelletier, Annie Villeneuve and six musicians deliver the essentials of the holiday season.
Between you and me for Christmas
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Suzie Villeneuve
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Suzie Villeneuve presents in piano, voice and double bass the great Christmas classics, with a little nod to the New Year.
Bruno Pelletier
The Quebec singer offers in a revisited and intimate version, with piano, violins, viola and cello, the great Christmas songs and When men live on love, Imagine and Miserere.
White Christmas
The V’là l’Bon Vent troupe sings traditional Christmas tunes for the benefit of the Quebec Cancer Foundation in a concert recorded at the Chapelle Spectacle in Quebec.
- December 23 to January 2
- cancerto.tv
- 25 $
December
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December from Quebec Issime
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The 24 artists of the Quebec Issime troupe offer a large fresco of the holiday season recorded in 2014 at Place des Arts.
Marc Hervieux
Marc Hervieux will sing the essentials of the holiday season with the It shepherds, He was born the divine child, White christmas, Ave Maria, the immense Midnight Christians and other Christmas tunes.
Mélissa Bédard sings Christmas
Recently recorded at the Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur in Quebec City, Mélissa Bédard will sing, surrounded by musicians, violinist and cellist Pascale and Marianne Croft, and four choristers, the most beautiful tunes of the holiday season.
Chilly Gonzales
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Chilly Gonzales
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The extravagant pianist will try with Jarvis Cocker, Feist and friends to convince, in songs, a Santa Claus who has lived through ups and downs, in this year of pandemic, to continue his mission.
RAP and HIP-HOP
Samian
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Rapper and slammer Samian presents a carte blanche show with his guests Rosa Cheezo, Peruvian singer Esmeralda and a jazz trio.
JOAT Battle dance
The event which features eight virtuoso dancers from street dance from Quebec and Canada offers a series of solo danced and improvised competitions, refereed by a jury.
FOR KIDS
The big Christmas ball
Amatin, Ademain and Atemplein, three musical penguins must, if they want to be admitted to the North Pole festivities, compose a Christmas song. Will they rise to the challenge?
Nutcracker
The Orchester symphonique de Québec offers a Nutcracker for the whole family with a narration by Widemir Normil, illustrations and musical excerpts from this work by Tchaikovsky.
- Until January 6
- OSQ Facebook page and YouTube channel
- Free
What time is midnight?
The musicians of Les Petites Tounes offer a show that plunges into the feverish hours preceding midnight’s New Year’s Eve.
QUEBEC SONG
Daniel Boucher
Surrounded by guests, including his mother, Daniel Boucher had the challenge of bringing together, for an evening, an emerging creator to discover, an artist friend or loved and a loved one, known or not.
Christmas in the park
The Quebec duo Milk & Bone will offer a show as part of the concerts under the tree of the event Christmas in the park. The rap group LaF will open at 7:30 p.m. and Maria Cannelloni will perform a children’s show earlier at 1 p.m.
America Cries – The Movie
Les Cowboys Fringants filmed a large-scale concert-event across Quebec in symbiosis with the elements and in 4K technology.
Dream together
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Beyries, Louis-Jean Cormier, KNLO. Klô Pelgag, Marie-Pierre Arthur, Martha Wainwright, FouKi and many others will celebrate the arrival of the new year.
Beauceron party
Maxime Landry invites the public in an atmosphere of party of Beauceron family with five musicians, songs that marked his childhood and country music classics.
Safe from the whole world
Éric Lapointe presents his traditional holiday show made up of his greatest hits.
CLASSICAL MUSIC
Beethoven’s incomparable Septet
The OSM pays tribute to the German composer with the interpretation of this 42-minute chamber music piece which was very successful after its creation.
- Until December 21
- osm.ca
- 23 $
Handel’s Messiah
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The mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb
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The Montreal Classical Orchestra, with four soloists, including mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb, performs this masterpiece by the German composer, in the basilica of Saint Joseph’s Oratory.
Baroque Christmases
Les Violons du Roy present Christmas music that can be found on their first album Christmas Simphonies, launched in 1994.
- Until January 2
- Violons du Roy Facebook page and YouTube channel
- Free
The OSM celebrates the holiday season
The Orchester symphonique de Montréal performs, under the direction of Bernard Labadie, Handel’s Messiah and the Gloria in D major by Vivaldi.
- Until January 5
- osm.ca
- 23 $
Christmas concert
The Little Violins ensemble will celebrate Christmas with works by Britten, Kreisler, the Canon for three voices by Pachelbel and pieces by Jean Cousineau, in a concert recorded at the Saint-Pierre-Apôtre church.
- December 20 – 4 p.m.
- Little Violins Facebook page
- Free
Poetry with Louise Cotnoir
Louise Cotnoir offers a poetic recital in the company of tenor Hugo Laporte and pianist Nathalie Tremblay who will perform works by Fanny Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann, in the setting of the Chapel of the Musée de d’Amérique francophone in Quebec.
Beethoven in the spotlight
Virtuoso pianist Jean-Philippe Sylvestre presents a tribute concert to Beethoven, with the sonata Moonlight, to highlight the 250e anniversary of his birth.
OPÉRA
Hansel and Gretel
The Opéra de Montréal presents the work of Engelbert Humperdinck presented by Atelier Lyrique at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier at Place des Arts in 2014.
JAZZ
Francois Bourassa Quartet
The François Bourassa trio is featured in a concert recorded live at Dièse Onze, on the occasion of the Off Festival de jazz de Montréal.
HARD-ROCK
Dance Laury Dance Christmas
The children of Quebec hard rock will offer a virtual concert recorded live at the ANTI Bar & Spectacles in Quebec.
HUMOUR
My funny Christmases
Michel Barrette will tell his best Christmas memories of his childhood with these comic, incredible and also touching moments, in the company of his friend Luc Senay.
Humour local
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Stephane Fallu
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Stéphane Fallu and his sidekick Alexandre Bisaillon will improvise, without any creative limit, in the company of Mariana Mazza, Yannick De Martino and Samuel Cyr.
CIRQUE
Seven moments of joy
Cirque Éloize offers an art and documentary film, which mixes dance and circus arts, seven short pieces created by seven guest choreographers.
TRAD
The drivers on foot
The traditional Quebecois training will present an explosive mix with reels, little-known jigs and old songs to answer, drink or cry.
The vigil of the day before
Michel Faubert and the groups Le Vent du Nord, Galant tu perds ton temps, Brothers Brunet and Philippe Jetté offer, in dance and music, a dress rehearsal for New Year’s Day.
A Christmas night’s tale
Les Charbonniers de l’Enfer will perform, in the company of the Galileo Orchestra, some of their songs and works by Vivaldi, Corelli, Gagnon and Dompierre.
The devil’s dream
The Quebec formation offers a festive evening of December 23 with a concert broadcast live with its traditional and folk tunes.
INTERNATIONAL
Josh Groban
After attacking the great tunes of Broadway musicals and songs from his album Harmony In webcast, Josh Groban does it again with a first virtual concert dedicated to Christmas carols.
Bad Religion
The American punk rock group presents three concerts devoted to his songs written during the years 1990 (December 19), 2000 (December 26) and 2010 (January 2) and filmed at the Roxy in Los Angeles.
- December 19, December 26, January 2 – 5 p.m.
- badreligion.com
- 15 $
Kiss 2020 Goodbye
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The famous and iconic Kiss group will smash the year with pyrotechnics, filmed by 50 cameras in a concert presented live from the site of the Atlantis hotel in Dubai.
A Christmas Symphony
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Sarah Brightman
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Live from historic Christ Church Spitalfields, London, Sarah Brightman will sing holiday classics with Aled Jones, Andrew Lloyd Weber and the Gregorian Choir.
Tomorrowland
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David Guetta
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David Guetta, Major Lazer, Diplo, Martin Garrix, Armin Van Buuren and the best DJs on the planet will rock the bass tones of sound systems in this grandiose event dedicated to electronic music.
Good Riddance 2020
Pink Martini will mark the end of the year in song with a show performed in front of a 35-foot Christmas tree in Portland, Oregon.
Metropolitan Opera New Years Gala
The Met presents a year-end concert that will bring together four great voices from the New York opera house with sopranos Angel Blue and Pretty Yende and tenors Javier Camarena and Matthew Polenzani. Recorded live in Augsburg, Germany.
Bohemian
Tenor Luciano Pavarotti stars as Rodolfo in this famous and popular opera by Puccini, recorded on March 15, 1977 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
- December 28 – 7:30 p.m. – Online for 11 p.m.
- metopera.org
- Free
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