Denis Harbor

Denis Harbor (born August 3, 1917 in Oka , † December 24, 2009 in Oka ) was a Canadian singer ( bass ).

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Harbor studied law and also took singing lessons from Arthur Laurendeau . He then decided on a career as a singer and continued his training between 1945 and 1953 with Paul Althouse , Léon Rothier , Herbert Graf and Alfredo Valenti in New York. During this time he appeared in concerts and on the radio and toured the United States with the Charles Wagner Opera Company . In 1949 he won the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air and made his debut as a gatekeeper in Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera . In the 1948–49 season he sang seven roles in 26 performances and was engaged by Arturo Toscanini in 1949 for a radio recording of the opera Aida as King of Egypt.

In 1950 Harbor Méphistophélès sang Méphistophélès in Gounod's Faust at the Montreal Festivals in the Delorimier Stadium , and in 1951 he was the soloist in a performance of Verdi's Requiem by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (MSO). He also sang as a soloist with the MSO in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in 1953 and in Mozart's Requiem in 1956, and the prologue in Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele with the Quebec Symphony Orchestra in 1957 .

In the 1952–53 season Harbor went on a concert tour of England, Holland, Switzerland and Scandinavia. In the years that followed until 1957 he moderated the radio and later television program of the CBC Serenade for Strings with Claire Gagnier . In 1959 he ended his career as a singer and worked as a producer for the CBC. From 1972 to 1978, when it closed, he headed the music department of the Dupuis Frères department store in Montreal.

Web links

• The Canadian Encyclopedia - Denis Harbor