Arthur Lapierre
Arthur Lapierre (* around 1888; † after 1947) was a Canadian singer, composer and actor.
Live and act
Lapierre began his stage career around 1900 and founded the Cercle Lapierre with Conrad Gauthier and Sylva Alarie around 1908 , with which he performed in Montreal and the surrounding area until the 1920s. He also worked with his wife, the singer Béatrice Latour , and sang in 1917 in the Saint-Jacques Church in Frédéric Pelletier's Stabat Mater .
From 1918 he was also known as an opera singer. He performed with the Troupe canadienne d'opéra alongside Sarah Fischer , Cédia Brault , Victor Desautels and Ulysse Paquin in Carmen . In 1919 he sang excerpts from Gounods Philémon et Baucis and Victor Massés Les noces de Jeannette with Blanche Gonthier , Honoré Vaillancourt and Armand Gauthier in Lewiston, Maine . At the Théâtre canadien-français he appeared in the music revue Allons-y, brunette , which he had written with Armand Gauthier . In 1919 he sang in the Salle Lafontaine with Léonide Letourneux in Ferdinand Poises Bonsoir voisin and in Monument-national with Fabiola Poirier and Jeanne Maubourg in Aimé Maillart's Les dragons de Villars .
At the same time he founded the Quatuor canadien with Rodrigue Gauthier , Jean-Marie Magnan and Joseph-Henri Thibodeau , which was occasionally supplemented by the singers Arthur Gagné and Émile Lamarre . In 1921 he appeared under the direction of Joseph-Jean Goulet in Le chemin de croix by Alexandre Georges with Fabiola Poirier and Armand Gauthier and as Pierre LeRoux in Rose et Cola by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny .
From 1918 onwards, a number of recordings were made by Starr and His Master's Voice , some with musicians from Gauthier's Veillées du bon vieux temps and Honoré Vaillancourt's Société canadienne d'opérette . In 1927 he recorded children's songs for the Mignon label . Lapierre later taught in Montreal. As a composer he came out with a mass for the dead ( Mass à trois voix égales pour les défunts ).
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| SURNAME | Lapierre, Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian singer, composer and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1888 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1947 |