Our history

Some Numbers

31 seasons
934 performances
91 operas
2 world premieres : Nelligan by André Gagnon (libretto by Michel Tremblay); Thérèse Raquin by Tobias Picker (libretto by Gene Scheer)
55 new productions
Over 20 million viewers and listeners have watched or listened to Opéra de Montréal productions on
Radio-Canada television, radio and web.

Awards

March 2004 : Le château de Barbe-bleue (Prix Opus – concert de l’année, musique moderne, contemporaine)
March 2004 : Le château de Barbe-bleue (Prix Opus – concert de l’année, Montréal)
October 2009 : Pagliacci/Schicchi (Prix Opus – concert de l’année, musique classique, romantique, postromantique, impressionniste

Collaborations

Bellas Artes
Dallas Opera
Florentine Opera Company
Florida Grand Opera
Houston Grand Opera
Opera Australia
Seattle Opera
Vancouver Opera
Opéra de Québec
San Diego Opera

Artistic Directors

Jean-Paul Jeannotte (1980-1989)
Bernard Uzan (1989-2001)
Bernard Labadie (2002-2006)
Michel Beaulac (depuis April 2007)

General Directors

Jacques Langevin (1983-1986)
Bernard S. Creighton (1986-1988)
Bernard Uzan (1988-2000)
Kimberley J. Gaynor (2001-2002)
David Moss (2003-2006)
Pierre Dufour (depuis août 2006)

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Guest Artists

Opera Singers From Abroad

Valery Alexiev
Fabio Armiliato
Emma Bell
Nicola Beller Carbone
Rockwell Blake
Michele Capalbo
Renato Capecchi
Vinson Cole
Stephne Costello
Mark Delavan
Donato di Stefano
Alexey Dolgov
Mary Dunleavy
John Fanning
Rosendo Flores
Alberto Gazale
Vivica Genaux
Monica Groop
Eglise Gutierrez
Julia Hamari

Robert Hayward
Alan Held
Veronica Kincses
Sergei Leiferkus
Luis Lima
Johanna Meier
Anthony Michaels-Moore
Sherrill Milnes
Hiromi Omura
Hasmik Papian
Susan Patterson
Paul Plishka
Susan Quittmeyer
Luciana Serra
Marina Shaguch
Diana Soviero
Olivia Stapp
Dimitra Theodossiou
Ilona Tokody
Benita Valente

Canadian Opera Singers

Phillip Addis
Frédéric Antoun
Theodore Baerg
Antoine Bélanger
Colette Boky
Benoît Boutet
Russell Braun
Victor Braun
Pierre Charbonneau
Lara Ciekiewicz
Claude Corbeil
Gianna Corbisiero
Alain Coulombe
Tracy Dahl
Etienne Dupuis
John Fanning
Manon Feubel
Antonio Figueroa
Marianne Fiset
Maureen Forrester
Judith Forst
Lyne Fortin
Don Garrard
Karina Gauvin
Gordon Gietz
Stephen Hegedus
Marc Hervieux
Joanne Kolomyjec

Taras Kulish
Aline Kutan
Gaetan Laperrière
Jean-François Lapointe
Danièle LeBlanc
Suzie LeBlanc
Marie-Nicole Lemieux
Nicole Lorange
Marie-Josée Lord
Michèle Losier
John Mac Master
Richard Margison
Ermanno Mauro
Allan Monk
Marie-Danielle Parent
Mariana Paunova
Brett Polegato
David Pomeroy
Annamaria Popescu
Gino Quilico
Louis Quilico
Joseph Rouleau
Robert Savoie
Daniel Taylor
André Turp
James Westman

Conductors

Christian Badea
Richard Buckley
Frédéric Chaslin
Francesco Maria Colombo
Franz-Paul Decker
Anton Guadagno
Bernard Labadie
Jacques Lacombe
Edoardo Müller
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Jean-Yves Ossonce
Tyrone Paterson
Giuseppe Petraroia
Joseph Rescigno
Stewart Robertson
Alfredo Silipigni
Alain Trudel
Gregory Vajda
Michelangelo Veltri
Kerri-Lynn Wilson
Jean-Marie Zeitouni

Stage Directors

Chris Alexander
Bernard Arnould
André Barbe
Marc Béland
Humbert Camerlo
Sean Curran
René Richard Cyr
Serge Denoncourt
Renaud Doucet
Jean Gascon
David Gaterly
Alain Gauthier
Claude Girard
Irving Guttman
Bliss Hebert
Vaclav Kaslik
Yannis Kokkos
Robert Lepage
Fabrizio Melano
Elijah Moshinsky
Kevin Newbury
Roberto Oswald
Moffatt Oxenbould
Robert Prévost
François Racine
Olivier Reichenbach
Thaddeus Strassberger
Josef Svoboda
Gilbert Turp
Bernard Uzan et Antoine Vitez

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Canadian Opera

Canadian Opera Hall of Fame

The Canadian Opera Hall of Fame was created in 1991 by the Opéra de Montréal to acknowledges the exceptional contribution of artists and cultural figures from Quebec and across the country who have contributed to the development of opera in Canada.

Repertoire

Abduction from the Seraglio (The): January 1990
Adriana Lecouvreur : september 1990
Agrippina : march 2005
Aida : april 1986; november 1994; may 2001; may 2006
Andrea Chénier : september 1992
Ariadne auf Naxos : november 2004

Barber of Seville (The): September 1984; April 1986; April 1995; May 2000; February 2008
Bat (The): May 1993
Belle Hélène (La) : may 1992
Bluebeard’s Castle: March 2004
Bohème (La) : February 1985; January 1989; February 1995; November 1999; January 2004; May 2011

Capuleti e i Montecchi (I): December 1992 (concert version)
Carmen: February 1988; April 1994; February 1999; May 2005
Carmina burana: May 1997
Cavalleria rusticana: November 1985; November 2002
Cendrillon: May 2010
Cenerentola (La): November 1987; March 1998
Clemenza di Tito (La): March 2006
Comte Ory (Le): November 1989
Consul (The): April 1995; May 1999
Coronation of Poppea (The): April 2000
Così fan tutte: February 1981; April 1992; September 2000

Dialogues des Carmélites: April 1989; March 2000
Don Carlo: November 1998
Don Giovanni: April 1988; May 1995; May 2007
Don Pasquale: September 1985; January 2005

Elixir of Love (The): December 1981; June 2002
Erwartung: March 2004
Étoile (L’): November 2005
Eugene Onegin: February 1992
Falstaff: February 1994
Fanciulla del West (La): September 2008
Faust: September 1989; September 1997

Fedora: September 1995
Fidelio: February 1983; November 1988
Fille du régiment (La): May 1994
Fliegende Holländer (Der): September 1993

Gianni Schicchi: February 1991; September 2009
Gioconda (La): May 1999

Hiver dans l’âme: May 1997

Italian Girl in Algiers (The): May 2003

Jenufa: March 1997

Kátya Kabanová: November 2000
Kopernikus: April 2001

Lakmé: January 2000 (concert version); February 2007
Lucia di Lammermoor: November 1982; February 1993; February 2001; May 2009

Macbeth: May 1983 ; November 1995; January 2009
Madama Butterfly: October 1981; September 1988; April 1993; November1997; September 2002; May 2008
Magic Flute (The): November 1986; March 1996; March 2003; November 2009
Manon: October 1983; March 1999
Manon Lescaut: January 1987; May 1998
Marriage of Figaro (The): November 1983; April 1998; September 2003; September 2011
Masked Ball (A): April 1990; September 2007
Mefistofele: March 2001
Merry Widow (The): May 1991; May 2004

Nabucco: April 1992; November 2001
Nelligan (world premiere): March 1990
Norma: September 1982; September 2005

Orphée aux enfers: December 1986; December 1995
Otello: September 1987; February 2000
Pagliacci: February 1991; November 1996; November 2002; September 2009
Pearl Fishers (The): September 1996; November 2008

Pelléas et Mélisande: May 2001
Peter Grimes: September 2001
Puritani (I): April 1987

Rape of Lucretia (The): April 2003
Rheingold (Das): April 2000 (concert version)
Rigoletto: May 1984; November 1991; February 1997; February 2003; September 2010
Roberto Devereux : November 2010
Roméo et Juliette: September 1986; November 1992; November 2007
Rosenkavalier (Der): April 1991

Salome: April 1985; September 1999; March 2011
Samson et Dalila: February 1996
Simon Boccanegra: March 2010
Starmania Opera: March 2009
Student Prince (The): June 1994
Suor Angelica: November 1985; November 1996; September 2006
Susannah: April 1999

Tabarro (Il): September 2006
Tales of Hoffmann (The): November 1990; April 1994
Thaïs: November 2003
Thérèse Raquin (French-language world premiere): April 2002
Tosca: October 1980; June 1987; September 1991; May 1996; March 2002; January 2010
Traviata (La): June 1981; November 1984; November 1993; September 1998; February 2002; November 2006
Tristan et Isolde: February 1986
Trovatore (Il): June 1982; February 1998
Turandot: February 1984; May 1997; October 2004
Turn of the Screw (The): May 1996

Vie parisienne (La): November 1987; December 1994
Voix humaine (La): October 1997
Werther: February 1982; September 1994; January 2011

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* ATELIER LYRIQUE

Latest Seasons

2010-2011
September	RIGOLETTO by Verdi
November	ROBERTO DEVEREUX by Donizetti
January	WERTHER by Massenet
March	SALOMÉ by Strauss
May	LA BOHÈME by Puccini

2009-2010
September	I PAGLIACCI by Leoncavallo / GIANNI SCHICCHI by Puccini
November	THE MAGIC FLUTE by Mozart
January	TOSCA by Puccini
March	SIMON BOCCANEGRA by Verdi
May	CENDRILLON by Massenet

2008-2009
September	THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST by Puccini
November	THE PEARL FISHERS by Bizet
January	MACBETH by Verdi
March	STARMANIA by Berger/Plamondon
May	LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR by Donizetti

2007-2008
September	A MASKED BALL by Verdi
November	ROMEO AND JULIET by Gounod
February	THE BARBER OF SEVILLE by Rossini
May-June	MADAMA BUTTERFLY by Puccini

2006-2007
September	IL TABARRO / SUOR ANGELICA by Puccini
November	LA TRAVIATA by Verdi
February	LAKMÉ by Delibes
May-June	DON GIOVANNI by Mozart

2005-2006
September	NORMA by Bellini
November	L’ÉTOILE by Chabrier
March	LA CLEMENZA DI TITO by Mozart
May-June	AIDA by Verdi

2004-2005
October	TURANDOT by Puccini
November	ARIADNE AUF NAXOS by Strauss
January	DON PASQUALE by Donizetti
March	AGRIPPINA by Handel
May-June	CARMEN by Bizet

2003-2004
September	THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO by Mozart
November	THAÏS by Massenet
January	LA BOHÈME by Puccini
March	BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE by Bartok / ERWARTUNG by Schoenberg
May-June	THE MERRY WIDOW by Lehar

2002-2003
September	MADAMA BUTTERFLY by Puccini
November	CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA by Mascagni / I PAGLIACCI by Leoncavallo
February	RIGOLETTO by Verdi
March	THE MAGIC FLUTE by Mozart
April	THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA by Britten
May	THE ITALIAN GIRL IN ALGIERS by Rossini

2001-2002
September	PETER GRIMES by Britten
November	NABUCCO by Verdi
February	LA TRAVIATA by Verdi
March	TOSCA by Puccini
April	THÉRÈSE RAQUIN by Picker
May	THE ELIXIR OF LOVE by Donizetti

2000-2001
September	COSÌ FAN TUTTE by Mozart
November	KATYA KABANOVA by Janacek
January	RUTH ANN SWENSON Concert
February	LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR by Donizetti
March	KOPERNIKUS by Vivier
April	KOPERNIKUS by Vivier
May	PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE by Debussy
May	AIDA by Verdi

1999-2000
September	SALOME by Strauss
November	LA BOHÈME by Puccini
January	LAKMÉ by Delibes (concert version)
February	OTELLO by Verdi
March	THE DIALOGUES OF THE CARMELITES by Poulenc
April	THE CORONATION OF POPPEA by Monteverdi
April	DAS RHEINGOLD by Wagner (concert version)
May	THE BARBER OF SEVILLE by Rossini

1998-1999
September	LA TRAVIATA by Verdi
November	DON CARLO by Verdi
February	CARMEN by Bizet
March	MANON by Massenet
April	SUSANNAH by Floyd
May	THE CONSUL by Menotti
May	LA GIOCONDA by Ponchielli

1997-1998
September	FAUST by Gounod
Octobre	LA VOIX HUMAINE by Poulenc / SELECTION OF SONGS by Poulenc
November	MADAMA BUTTERFLY by Puccini
February	IL TROVATORE by Verdi
March	LA CENERENTOLA by Rossini
April	THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO by Mozart
May	MANON LESCAUT by Puccini

1996-1997
September	THE PEARL FISHERS by Bizet
November	I PAGLIACCI by Leoncavallo / SUOR ANGELICA by Puccini
February	RIGOLETTO by Verdi
March	JENUFA by Janacek
May	HIVER DANS L’ÂME by Prévost (poems by Michèle Lalonde) / CARMINA BURANA by Orff
May-June	TURANDOT by Puccini

1995-1996
September	FEDORA by Giordano
November	MACBETH by Verdi
December	ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD by Offenbach
February	SAMSON AND DELILAH by Saint-Saëns
March	THE MAGIC FLUTE by Mozart
May	THE TURN OF THE SCREW by Benjamin Britten
May	TOSCA by Puccini

1994-1995
September	WERTHER by Massenet
November	AIDA by Verdi
December	LA VIE PARISIENNE by Offenbach
February	LA BOHÈME by Puccini
April	THE BARBER OF SEVILLE by Rossini
April	THE CONSUL by Menotti
May	DON GIOVANNI by Mozart

1993-1994
September	THE FLYING DUTCHMAN by Wagner
November	LA TRAVIATA by Verdi
February	FALSTAFF by Verdi
April	CARMEN by Bizet
April	THE TALES OF HOFFMANN by Offenbach
May	THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT by Donizetti
June	THE STUDENT PRINCE by Romberg

1992-1993
May	LA BELLE HÉLÈNE by Offenbach
September	ANDREA CHÉNIER by Giordano
November	ROMEO AND JULIET by Gounod
December	THE CAPULETS AND THE MONTAGUES by Bellini
February	LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR by Donizetti
April	MADAMA BUTTERFLY by Puccini

1991-1992
September	TOSCA by Puccini
November	RIGOLETTO by Verdi
February	EUGENE ONEGIN by Tchaikovsky
April	NABUCCO by Verdi
April	COSÌ FAN TUTTE by Mozart
May	XXXX

1990-1991
September	ADRIANA LECOUVREUR by Cilea
November	THE TALES OF HOFFMANN by Offenbach
February	GIANNI SCHICCHI by Puccini / I PAGLIACCI by Leoncavallo
April	DER ROSENKAVALIER by Strauss
May	THE MERRY WIDOW by Lehar

1989-1990
September	FAUST by Gounod
December	LE COMTE ORY by Rossini
January	THE ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO by Mozart
March	NELLIGAN by Gagnon/Tremblay
April	A MASKED BALL by Verdi

1988-1989
September	MADAMA BUTTERFLY by Puccini

January	LA BOHÈME by Puccini
April	THE DIALOGUES OF THE CARMELITES by Poulenc

1987-1988
September	OTELLO by Verdi
November	LA VIE PARISIENNE by Offenbach
November	LA CENERENTOLA by Rossini
February	CARMEN by Bizet
April	DON GIOVANNI by Mozart

1986-1987
September	ROMEO AND JULIET by Gounod
November	THE MAGIC FLUTE by Mozart
December	ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD by Offenbach
January	MANON LESCAUT by Puccini
April	I PURITANI by Bellini
June	TOSCA by Puccini

1985-1986
September	DON PASQUALE by Donizetti
November	SUOR ANGELICA by Puccini / CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA by Mascagni
February	TRISTAN AND ISOLDE by Wagner
April	AIDA by Verdi / THE BARBER OF SEVILLE by Rossini

1984-1985
September	THE BARBER OF SEVILLE by Rossini
November	LA TRAVIATA by Verdi
February	LA BOHÈME by Puccini
April	SALOME by Strauss

1983-1984
Octobre	MANON by Massenet
November	THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO by Mozart
February	TURANDOT by Puccini
April	RIGOLETTO by Verdi

1982-1983
September	NORMA by Bellini
November	LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR by Donizetti
February	FIDELIO by Beethoven
June	MACBETH by Verdi

1981-1982
Octobre	MADAMA BUTTERFLY by Puccini
December	THE ELIXIR OF LOVE by Donizetti
February	WERTHER by Massenet
June	IL TROVATORE by Verdi

1980-1981
Octobre	TOSCA by Puccini
February	COSI FAN TUTTE by Mozart
June	LA TRAVIATA by Verdi

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