The Nightmare Before Christmas in Concert Live-to-Film – School Matinees2026-2027

Recommended for elementary cycles 2, 3, and all secondary cycles

Welcome to a world where pumpkins sing and snow falls on the impossible. Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas—a stop‑motion animated film that has become a cult classic and earned two Saturn Awards—unfolds in a delicately off‑kilter enchantment. Fascinated by Christmas, Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King, dreams of capturing its magic and bringing it back to Halloween Town. Awestruck by the colours and the swirling snowflakes around him, he marvels at a world unlike anything he has ever known. Between wonder and chaos, his adventure comes to life through Danny Elfman’s spellbinding music, performed here by the OSM.

*The November 27th showing will be presented in English with French subtitles

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Artists

Orchestre symphonique de Montréal

Ben Palmer, conductor

Estimated duration 1:20