Soloists (with flowers at centre stage) Neal Davies, Andrew Staples, Joëlle Harvey and Allyson McHardy; Jonathan Cohen, director of Les Violons du Roy; and La Chapelle de Québec choristers were given a standing ovation at the end of the magnificent performance of Handel’s Messiah at the Palais Montcalm. (Photo by Shirley Nadeau)