Jean-Pierre Hurteau

Joseph Armand Jean-Pierre Hurteau (born December 5, 1924 in Montreal , † November 25, 2009 in Longueuil ) was a Canadian singer (bass).

Hurteau studied singing with Sarah Fischer from 1947 to 1949 and made his debut in 1949 in a concert at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. At the Conservatoire de musique du Québec he was a student of Albert Cornellier and Martial Singher (1952–55). As an opera singer he made his debut in 1952 at Minute Opera in Darius Milhaud's Le pauvre matelot . In the following years he had supporting roles in productions of the Montreal Festivals , the Opera Guild and the Variétés lyriques . In 1955 he was the titurel at a performance of Parsifal at Montreal's Show Mart at the side of Rose Bampton and Ramon Vinay .

As a scholarship holder of the provincial government of Québec, he completed his training in Rome from 1955 to 1958 with Rachele Maragliano-Mori . At the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse he sang Balthazar in Gian-Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors and Pimen in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunow in 1957 .

From 1958 to 1970 Hurteau was engaged at the Paris Opera and the Opéra-Comique . Here he appeared as Il Commendatore in Don Giovanni (1960), Mephisto in Faust (1961), La Roche in Capriccio (1962), Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte (1963), Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro (1964), Mephisto in La damnation de Faust (1964) and Panthée in Les Troyens (1969).

He also sang in Krzysztof Penderecki's The Devils of Loudun (1972), Renzo Rossellini's La Reine morte (1974) and Harry Somers ' Louis Riel (1975). He has appeared on stage with singers such as Maria Callas , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , Tito Gobbi and Montserrat Caballé in guest appearances in Lyons, Marseilles, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Grenoble, Monte Carlo and Orange .

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SURNAME	Hurteau, Jean-Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hurteau, Joseph Armand Jean-Pierr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 5, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	Montreal
DATE OF DEATH	November 25, 2009
Place of death	Longueuil