9e Musique@17h: OpéraM3F - Mère-Noël

9e Musique@17h: OpéraM3F - Mère-Noël
Enjoy the beauty, intimacy and power of vocal music in Montreal's incredible Art Deco heritage venue, Le 9e Grande Salle!

OperaM3F's professional singers (and mothers) perform beloved Christmas songs that resonate with the joy of the season in a dazzling musical adventure, where audience interaction creates a lively, immersive experience.

9e Musique@17h, invites the public to experience world-class performances on the first and third Tuesday of each month at 5 p.m. for one hour, to enjoy a drink during the concerts, meet the artists and make reservations at the 9e Île-de-France restaurant for the post-concert dinner.

Highlights
🏛 Be moved! Join in this dazzling musical adventure in Montreal's impressive Art Deco heritage venue, Le 9e Grande Salle!
🏆 OpéraM3F presents PRIX OPUS and PRIX JUNO-winning artists
🏆 OpéraM3F Artistic Director Kristin Hoff is winner of the Mécénat Musica PRIX GOYER
🌎 OpéraM3F is carrying out a project unique in the world - the creation of new Canadian operas that give voice to new, unique and diverse stories
🥂 Stay after the concert to meet the musicians and chat over a drink

General Info
📅 Date and time: Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 5 p.m
📍 Location: Le 9e Grande Salle - 1500 blvd Robert-Bourassa
⏳ Duration: 60 minutes (approx.). Doors open 60 minutes before the concert and latecomers will not be admitted
👤 Age requirement: 6+. Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult
♿ Accessibility: this venue is wheelchair accessible.
❓ Read the FAQ for this event here
🪑 Places are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis

Program

• Minuit chrétiens - Adolphe Adam
• In the bleak midwinter - Gustav Holst
• O nuit de paix/Night of Silence - Gruber/Kantor
• Trois anges sont venus ce soir - Augusta Holmès, arr. G. Patenaude
• White Christmas - Irving Berlin
• The Christmas song - Mel Tormé
• A la nanita - José Ramón Gomis
• Mariae Wiegenlied - Max Reger
• That yongë child - Benjamin Britten
• Petit garçon - Roger Miller (fr. Graeme Allwright)
• Marie-Noël - Robert Charlebois
• Happy Christmas - John Lennon, arr. J. Patenaude
• Joy to the world - Lowell Mason
• Les anges dans nos campagnes - unknown
• Petit Papa Noël - Henri Martin, arr. G. Patenaude
• Noël, c’est l’amour - Norbert Glanzberg, arr. G. Patenaude

 Artists

• Kristin Hoff, mezzo-soprano and Artistic Director of OpéraM3F at the 9e Grande Salle, possesses an "appealing clarity and emotional heft” — The New York Times
• Jacqueline Woodley, soprano, is “urgent and compelling… an emotional journey.” — The Washington Post
• Juliette Duguay, harpist, 2025 Prize - Strings category - Prix d'Europe

Description
9e Musique@17h presents OpéraM3F - MÈRE-NOËL, a dazzling musical adventure where audience interaction creates a lively, immersive experience, with the Christmas tunes that ring out the joy of the season.

Press releases

💬 Montreal Theatre Hub ⭐⭐⭐⭐ "... exactly what opera needs... bold, contemporary, poetic... theatrical..."
💬 Revue l'Opéra ⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Impressively unified, the hour-long work is a constant bewitchment, a parenthesis of bliss."
💬 BarczaBlog ⭐⭐⭐⭐ "An overpowering piece that bowled me over completely."
💬 Ludwig van Montréal ⭐⭐⭐⭐ "A fine opportunity to hear Canadian women composers and librettists whose notes and words echo our troubled times."

🍽 Following the concert, you can book dinner at the Ile-de-France restaurant, and enjoy a meal prepared by renowned chefs Derek Dammann and Liam Hopkins. Book here.

Floor plan