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Lyne Fortin. Soprano, b L'Islet-sur-Mer, Que, 28 Apr 1962; B MUS
(Laval) 1985. After studying at Laval
University with Louise
André, she attended master classes at the Orford
Arts Centre with Martial Singher, in Graz, Austria, and with Pierrette
Alarie and Léopold
Simoneau at the Canada
Opera Piccola. She took further lessons with Marlena Malas in New
York. She won first prizes at the Quebec Music Competitions in 1984 and
at the MSO
Concours in 1985. Besides earning the Prix Raoul-Jobin in 1986, she was
a winner at the third Pavarotti International Competition in 1988. With
the Opéra
de Québec she sang Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro (1987),
Gilda in Rigoletto (1989), and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte
(1991). Her roles with the Opera Lyra have included Micaela in Carmen
in 1989, a role she repeated with the New Jersey State Opera in 1991.
That same year she sang Norina in Don Pasquale with the
Philadelphia Opera. She made her debut with the Opéra
de Montréal as Antonia in Les Contes d'Hoffmann in 1990,
followed by the title role in The Merry Widow in 1991. Fortin has
appeared in concert with the NACO,
the Quebec
Symphony Orchestra, the MSO,
the Violons du Roy and the Orchestre
métropolitain. In February 1989 she gave concerts in South America
during the visit of Jeanne Sauvé, Canada's Governor General. With the
tenor Richard
Margison she has recorded Les Grands Duos d'amour de l'opéra
français accompanied by the Quebec SO under Simon
Streatfeild (1987, CBC SMCD-5072).
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