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A few rare opportunities for the public to access the Auditorium

On July 23, 1941, the date when the Canadian Army officially took possession of the arena, all sports and cultural activities came to a halt. Over the next […]

International wrestling galas at the Auditorium

In the early 2000s, the Auditorium hosted the annual Christmas wrestling galas of Jacques Rougeau Jr., whose career in the wrestling world spanned 35 years and who organized […]

Cab Calloway’s for the very first time in Verdun

Cab Calloway was a very popular African-American jazz singer and orchestra leader during the 1930s and 1940s. He rised to stardom through his performances at the famous Cotton […]

One of Nirvana’s last show

On November 2, 1993, the Verdun Auditorium welcomed Nirvana, one of the most popular groups in the world. At that time, grunge was all the rage. The group, […]

Motorcycles make noise at the Verdun Auditorium

On February 19-20, 2016, nearly fifty Harley Davidson motorcycles rode around the inside of the Verdun Auditorium. The “Show Harley” is the only one of its kind in […]

Hollywood lands in Verdun

In 2001, for a rare occasion, an American production used the arena as a film set for The Reagans. The production’s location search team liked the location for […]

A hockey series that revived the rivalry between Montréal and Québec City

La série Montréal-Québec was a TV series featuring 32 hockey players, age 18 and over, forming two hockey teams: the Montréal team and the Québec City team. Each […]

The opening show is truly dazzling!

La série Montréal-Québec was a large-scale production at the Verdun Auditorium, not only because of the technical complexity of the project, but also for its sensational aspect. In […]

Rock shows at the Verdun Auditorium

Jean-François Parenteau: Well, the shows at the Auditorium, in fact, it’s… there’s something mythical in an Auditorium show. It’s that space. Today, we see the Bell Centre a […]

La Série Montréal – Québec at the Verdun Auditorium

Daniel Belliveau: La Série Montréal-Québec, that was a really particular event for me. It was large scale from a technical standpoint. Just for HD TV, we had to […]

The filming of the Jean Béliveau Docu-drama

Daniel Belliveau: For the Jean Béliveau filming, I had to modify a lot of things here. I had to change the glass, glass from Aréna Denis-Savard for those […]

Pearl Jam at the Verdun Auditorium

Marc Daoust: So, a show that was significant to me, in fact, it’s a show on which I didn’t work. The luck we had, in fact, when… when […]