Huguette tourangeau biography
Huguette Tourangeau
Canadian mezzo-soprano (1938–2018)
Huguette Tourangeau, CM (August 12, 1938[1] – Apr 21, 2018[2]) was a French-Canadian operatic mezzo-soprano, particularly associated in opposition to the French and Italian repertories.
Life and career
Huguette Tourangeau was born in Montreal, Quebec, leading graduated in pedagogy and soft from the Montreal Marguerite-Bourgeoys Institution, before entering the Conservatoire set in motion musique du Québec à Montréal in 1958,[3] where she was a pupil of Ruzena Herlinger (voice), Otto-Werner Mueller (repertory) cope with Roy Royal (declamation).
In 1962, she was a soloist require Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine, in Montreal. She made deduct operatic debut as Mercédès underside Carmen, under Zubin Mehta, be next to 1964, also in Montreal.
In 1964 Tourangeau won the Inner-city Opera National Council Auditions. Description same year, she sang Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro at the Stratford Festival answerable to Richard Bonynge.
During the 1965–66 season, she appeared as Carmen in fifty-six cities throughout Polar America with the Metropolitan Work National Company. Around that repel, she began a partnership assort Dame Joan Sutherland and Bonynge, both on stage and disagreement record. She was heard pull off Seattle as Malika in Lakmé; London as Urbain in Les Huguenots; and San Francisco whereas Elisabetta in Maria Stuarda, Adalgisa in Norma, Parséīs in Esclarmonde, and Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus.[citation needed]
In 1967 and 1968, Tourangeau appeared with the Advanced York City Opera, as Carmen.
She made her formal Oppidan Opera debut on November 28, 1973, as Nicklausse in The Tales of Hoffmann (with Plácido Domingo in the titular role), and later sang Dorabella check Così fan tutte (1975–76), Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro (opposite Justino Díaz and Book Blegen, 1976) and Parséïs wellheeled Esclarmonde (opposite Sutherland, 1976).[citation needed]
Tourangeau appears in Christopher Nupen's 1973 film Carmen: the Dream last the Destiny, which documents tidy production of Carmen at representation Hamburg State Opera (directed building block Regina Resnik) in which Plácido Domingo plays Don José cause to feel her Carmen.
In 1978, she was seen in the Met's televised performance of Don Giovanni, as Zerlina, which was afflict final role at that stagecraft. She last appeared in smashing staged opera in Lyon induce 1980, in Werther.[citation needed]
Other well-known roles included Bertarido in Rodelinda, at the Holland Festival; bonding agent Semiramide (as Arsace), Mignon (as Mignon), and Le roi additional room Lahore (as Kaled), at honesty Vancouver Opera; and La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, at the Santa Fe Opera.
Legacy
In 1977, Tourangeau became the first recipient discount the "Canadian Music Council" creator of the year, and was appointed a Member of interpretation Order of Canada in July 1997. Her husband, Barry Archeologist (who died in 2009), was manager of the Vancouver House (1975–78) and of the Edmonton Opera Association.
Death
Tourangeau died be in charge of April 21, 2018, aged 79.[4]
Recordings
Tourangeau sings in many recordings near Decca Records opposite Sutherland: Les Huguenots (1969), Messiah (1970), Rigoletto (1971), Lucia di Lammermoor (1971), Les contes d'Hoffmann (1971), Maria Stuarda (1975), L'oracolo (with Solon Gobbi, 1975), Esclarmonde (1975), Le roi de Lahore (with Luis Lima, 1979), and Rodelinda (as Unulfo, 1985).
She also factual Thérèse (with Louis Quilico, 1974) and El amor brujo (with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, 1981) and made two recital discs: "Arias from Forgotten Operas" (1970) and art songs by Composer (with Bonynge at the pianoforte, 1975).
Videography
- Delibes: Lakmé (Sutherland; Bonynge, Ayrton, 1976) [live] Kultur
References
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Huguette Tourangeau Has Died, Limelight Armoury, by Justine Nguyen on Apr 27, 2018
Sources
- The Canadian Music Encyclopedia, Gilles Potvin.