Jacqueline Richard

Jacqueline Richard (* 8. March 1928 in Montreal , † 2. August 2015 ibid ) was a Canadian pianist , accompanist and conductor .

Richard studied piano with Marie-Thérèse Paquin . She took part in tours of Youth and Music Canada with the violinist Gilles Lefebvre , with Louise Roy (1950–51), Don Garrard (1954–55), Fernande Chiocchio (1956–57) and Napoléon Bisson (1958–59) and was Piano accompanist in the classes of Rachele Maragliano-Mori and Martial Singher at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec . In 1963 she founded the Boutique d'opéra , where she realized 75 opera performances with young musicians in two years .

As a scholarship holder of the Canada Council , she studied conducting with Hans Swarowsky in Nice in 1964 . From 1965 to 1967 she taught at the Opera School of the University of Toronto Opera Division . She was then engaged in Vienna and at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein , worked with Rolf Liebermann at the Hamburg State Opera and in 1973 at the Paris Opera . For the Bayreuth Festival she prepared the singers for a performance of Parsifal (1975) and the Meistersinger (1981).

In 1976 and 1980 she worked as a répétiteur and conductor at the Courtenay Youth Music Center . In 1977 she directed the opera studio of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra . From 1976 to 1980 she gave opera classes at Wilfried Laurier University . As a conductor, she conducted a performance of the opera Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Vancouver Opera in 1978 and various concerts by the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra . In addition, she prepared a performance of Francis Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites at the University of Western Ontario .

From 1979 to 1982 she was engaged again at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. Then she retired to the Benedictine monastery of Solesmes . She returned to Canada in 1984 for health reasons. There she helped found the Atelier lyrique of the Opéra de Montréal in 1984 and gave private lessons from 1985. In 2001 she was awarded the Order of Canada .

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• The Canadian Encyclopedia - Jacqueline Richard