Camille Bernard

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Camille Bernard (born February 25, 1898 in Joliette , † July 16, 1984 in Montreal ) was a Canadian singer (soprano), teacher and actress.

Bernard studied singing in Montreal from 1908 with Béatrice La Palme and Salvator Issaurel . From 1917 she appeared occasionally in the Club musicale des dames de Québec , which financed her vocal training in Paris from 1923-24. She completed her training with Pauline Donalda and Yvette Guilbert, among others, and performed at opera houses in Paris and with operetta troupes in Monte Carlo, Le Touquet and Vichy.

In 1929 she founded the Théâtre des petits in Montreal , a school for speech training and music, which was represented with a program of the same name on the radio station CKAC, and shortly afterwards the École nouvelle , where she taught children with language problems. The Camille-Bernard Institute later emerged from both .

She recorded the songs Hum Humm and La mort du mari on the His Master's Voice label . In 1973 she played the role of Madame Tassy in Claude Jutra's film Kamouraska .

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