gilles, lamontagne, baritone, gilles, lamontagne, march, 1924, montreal, december, 1993, quebec, canadian, baritone, active, international, career, operas, concerts, from, 1940s, through, 1960s, trained, royal, conservatory, music, where, pupil, herman, geiger. Gilles Lamontagne 21 March 1924 Montreal 28 December 1993 Quebec was a Canadian baritone who had an active international career in operas and concerts from the 1940s through the 1960s He was trained at The Royal Conservatory of Music where he was a pupil of Herman Geiger Torel and also studied with Isa Jeynevald in Quebec City Mario Rubini Reichlin in New York City and Mario Basiola in Milan In the late 1940s he won two national singing competitions in Canada on CBC Radio Singing Stars of Tomorrow and Nos futures etoiles He sang leading roles in opera houses in Canada Europe and North Africa during the 1950s and 1960s His repertoire included Albert in Jules Massenet s Werther Lescaut in Massenet s Manon Sharpless in Giacomo Puccini s Madama Butterfly both Valentin and Mephistopheles in Charles Gounod s Faust Zurga in Georges Bizet s Les pecheurs de perles and the title role in Giuseppe Verdi s Rigoletto among other parts 1 References edit Gilles M Leclerc Marc Samson December 15 2013 Gilles Lamontagne singer The Canadian Encyclopedia nbsp This article about an opera singer is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Gilles Lamontagne baritone amp oldid 1192906566, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
