Céline sur les Plaines | ||||
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Video by Celine Dion | ||||
Released | 11 November 2008 | |||
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Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 205:00 | |||
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Producer | Julie Snyder | |||
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Céline sur les Plaines is a home video by Canadian singer Celine Dion, released on DVD in Canada by Productions J on 11 November 2008. Entitled Live à Quebec, it was also issued in France, Belgium and Switzerland by TF1 Video on 20 May 2009. The DVD includes Dion's historic concert in Quebec City in front of 250,000 spectators, which took place on the Plains of Abraham on 22 August 2008 in celebration of the city's 400th anniversary. The release was commercially successful reaching number one on the charts in Canada, France and Belgium, and number two in Switzerland. In 2009, Céline sur les Plaines received a Félix Award for the DVD of the Year.
In June 2008, it was announced that Dion will celebrate Quebec City's 400th birthday with special concert on the historic Plains of Abraham on 22 August 2008. Dion personally chose all of the special guest performers for her show. The list of Quebec artists scheduled to perform included: Garou, Marc Dupré, Nanette Workman, Dan Bigras, Mes Aïeux, the Dion family, Zachary Richard, Éric Lapointe, Claude Dubois, Jean-Pierre Ferland and Ginette Reno. Dion and invited artists performed over thirty songs in front of 250,000 spectators. The concert was also broadcast live on giant screens in Lévis, Quebec for an additional 100,000 people. The show was available the next day and until early September, through video-on-demand Vidéotron, Shaw and Cogeco. The distribution of this show was very successful with viewers across Canada. Nearly 130,000 subscribers took advantage of the special offer of the largest cable companies and broadcasters in the country. On 21 September 2008, the show was broadcast on the TVA network, attracting nearly 1.8 million viewers and becaming the evening's most-watched broadcast in Quebec.