Caro Lamoureux

Marie Julienne Pauline Caroline (Caro) Lamoureux (born January 3, 1904 in Montreal ; † August 11, 1998 ibid) was a Canadian singer (soprano).

Lamoureux studied singing with Celine Marier and stage technology with Jeanne Maubourg and Albert Roberval . She made her debut at the age of sixteen in the Salle Montcalm and then appeared in supporting roles in operetta performances by various troupes in Québec. In 1924 she sang the title role in the world premiere of Alphonse Lavallée-Smith 's operetta Gisèle . In 1929 she appeared for the first time with the Société canadienne d'opérette in Victor Massé's Les noces de Jeannette . In the same year she sang the Leila in Georges Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles .

Lionel Daunais and Lamoureux in a Variétés lyriques production by Tsarevich

With the Société canadienne d'opérette and the Variétés lyriques, she appeared in leading roles in more than thirty operettas and numerous operas until the mid-1940s, including the title role of Mireille by Charles Gounod (1930), as Nedda in Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo (1930), as Baucis in Gounod's Philémon et Baucis (1931), as Gemma in Joachim Ulric Voyer's L'intendant Bigot (1931), as Néméa in Adolphe Adams Si j'étais roi (1933), as Rosina in Gioachino Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia (1934), as Violetta in Verdi's La traviata and as Philine in Mignon by Ambroise Thomas (1943).

In addition, between 1930 and 1943 she sang numerous leading roles in opera productions of the CBC radio, among others under the direction of Jean-Marie Beaudet . With Réda Caire she toured southern France in 1939 with a production of Franz Lehár's Merry Widow . In 1946 she retired from the opera stage and worked as a florist in Montreal.

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