Yolande Dulude

Yolande Dulude (born January 12, 1931 in Montreal ; † August 18, 2003 there ) was a Canadian opera singer (soprano).

After having had piano lessons for a few years, Dulude began vocal training in 1944. She made her debut in Rigoletto in 1949 in the Variétés lyriques , where she was regularly engaged until 1953. During this time she was a student of Sarah Fischer . As a concert singer she made her debut in 1950 in their Sarah Fischer Concerts . From 1953 to 1954 she stayed in KLondo and took lessons from Dino Borgioli , Ivor Newton and Joan Cross . After returning to Canada, she appeared on television for the first time in 1954 as Musetta in La Bohème and sang the title role in Jacques Offenbach's operetta La Fille du Tambour-Major in the last performance of Variétés lyriques in 1955 .

In 1956 Dulude appeared with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in Gian Carlo Menotti's operas The Old Miid and the Thief and The Telephone . In New York she continued her training in 1959 with Dick Marzollo . She then appeared as Frasquita in Carmen for the Opera Guild of Montreal in 1960 , toured France, Belgium and Luxembourg as a soloist with the Disciples de Massenet and sang in Antonio Vivaldi's Gloria and Anton Bruckner's Te Deum at the Montreal Festivals . During another stay in London in 1962, she completed her training with Edward Downes of the Covent Garden Opera .

From 1965 she moderated the program Les Grands Classiques of the radio station CJMS-FM. In the same year she performed with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra at the Place des Arts as Flora in La Traviata . In the following years she participated in many operetta productions, such as Simone in Louis Varney's Les Mousquetaires (1968), as Lady Mary in André Messager's Monsieur Beaucaire (1969) and as Gabrielle in Offenbach's La Vie Parisienne (1970). At the Opéra du Québec she was the Duchess of Krackenthorp in Gaetano Donizetti's La Fille du régiment in 1972 and the Duchesse de Berry in Maurice Yvain's Chanson gitane in 1974 . She gave her farewell performance in 1981 at the Opéra de Montréal as Flora in La Traviata . She then gave private singing lessons.

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• The Canadian Encyclopedia - Yolande Dulude