PATRICK CORRIGAN, GENERAL Director
After solid musical training, Patrick Corrigan began his career in 1990 as an opera singer. In 1996, he joined the Pacific Opera Victoria company (POV) as Stage Manager, a position he held until 2000. In this period, from 1998 to 2000, he also worked at the Victoria Conservatory of Music, as House Manager of the Alix Goolden Hall and as Program Manager at the Opera Studio. In 2000, he was appointed Director of Marketing and Development at POV, a position he held until 2010, the year he became CEO of the company. From 2012 to 2015, he served as Chair of Opera.ca, the national association for opera in Canada.
Mr. Corrigan holds an MBA (Masters of Business Administration) from Royal Roads University and musical training from various Canadian institutions, including the Victoria Conservatory of Music, The Banff Centre for the Arts and McGill University.
Michel Beaulac, Artistic Director and Administrator
Michel Beaulac was born in Montreal, and started studying piano as a teenager. After studies in education and some ten years as a teacher, he furthered his studies at the UQAM, in art and voice. Nominated by the McAbbey Foundation (sculpture), he exhibited his work on the Montreal university circuit, in the Maisons de la culture network, and at the Galerie du Petit Musée in Quebec City. His passion for opera led to hosting duties for a radio show on which the Opéra de Montréal’s director at the time took notice of him and invited him to join the company’s communications team in 1989. He then went on to take up various other functions at the company, including work as a set and costume designer, as assistant to the Artistic Director, and, more recently, as Artistic Administrator, a position he filled for close to ten years.
As a set designer, co-set designer, and costume designer, he worked on over seven productions and co-productions for the Opéra de Montréal, including Andrea Chénier, Carmen, Fedora, Manon, Manon Lescaut, Don Carlo, Carmina burana (staged version), as well as productions for the Atelier lyrique’s Canadian tours, including The Elixir of Love and The Barber of Seville.
He has created namely the Gala (1996-2014) and some prestigious collaborations (Spanish sculptor Victor Ochoa and renowned Quebec librettist Michel Marc Bouchard).
His first decade as artistic director has brought us Quebec premieres of such works from the repertoire as La Fanciulla del West (2007), Roberto Devereux (2010), Rusalka (2011), Porgy & Bess (2013), and Elektra (2016).
He has also taken a more contemporary approach at the company by presenting Dead Man Walking (2012), Silent Night (2015), JFK (2018), Svadba (2018), Champion (2019),Twenty-seven (2019 ), Ainadamar (2023) and five world premieres: Les Feluettes (2016), Another Brick In The Wall - L'opéra (2017), L'hiver attend beaucoup de moi (2020), La Beauté du monde (2023) and La Reine-garçon (2024).
Collaborations with Canadian and French institutions will give rise to three new works: Le Flambeau de la nuit (2021) with BOP, Yourcenar (2022) with the Opéra de Québec and Les Violons du Roy, and Enigma (2022) with the Opéra de Metz Métropole.
The productions of Pagliacci/Gianni Schicchi and Dead Man Walking each earned the institution an Opus Prize.
In 2022, he was inducted into the Order of Canada for his contribution to the development of opera in Montreal and across the country.
Michel Beaulac is the Opéra de Montréal's fourth Artistic Director.
ADMINISTRATION
GENERAL MANAGEMENT
Patrick Corrigan, general director
ARTISTIC MANAGEMENT
Michel Beaulac, artistic director
STRATEGIC OPERATION
Louis Bouchard, director
FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES
Maria Morse, director
Marie-Claude Lagacé, accounting clerk
DEVELOPPEMENT
Jean-Pierre Primiani, director
Antoine Gervais, manager, donor relations
Amy Grainger, coordonnator, annual campaign
Marion Malon, coordinator, philanthropic events
Géraldine Leong Sang, intern, annual campaign
COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING
Stéphanie Laichi, director
Daniella Johnson, manager, communications
Darnyse Memnon, manager, client services
Alexandre Therrien, coordinator, communications & marketing
Estelle Mouden, coordinator, marketing & sales
Marie-Pier Perron, manager, marketing *Currently on maternity leave*
MEDIAS - TACT
Louis-Martin Leclerc, press agent
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND EDUCATION
Pierre Vachon, director
Charlotte Gagnon, manager, social impact and education
Béatrice Beaudin-Caillé, coordinator
PRODUCTION
Pierre Massoud, production director
Patrick Belzile, technical director
Laurence Pronier, stage manager
Catherine Levac, artistic administrator
Marie Hélène Larivière, production assistant
Dominique Guindon, head of wardrobe
Sonia Bayer, associate head of wardrobe
ATELIER LYRIQUE DE L'OPÉRA DE MONTRÉAL
Jennifer Szeto, director
Geneviève Lessard, production manager
Marie Maous, program manager
Board of directors
CHAIRMAN
Me René Branchaud
Lavery
FORMER CHAIRMAN
Bernard Stotland* CA, CPA, FCA, FCPA
Richter S.E.N.C.R.L./LLP
VICE-PRESIDENTS
Louise Roy*, O.C., O.Q.
CIRANO
Louis Arseneault*
Université McGill
TREASURER
Sylvie Marois
Banque Nationale, Gestion Privée
SECRETARY
Pascal Lépine*, MAB, Admin. a.
Atypic
MEMBERS
François Carrier*
Valeurs mobilières Desjardins
Me Bruno-Étienne Duguay
NOVACAP
Frédéric Godbout, CFA
Mouvement Desjardins
Me Joanie Lapalme
Fasken
Dr François Loubert
Clinique médicale Angus
Guillaume Marion
Diagram Ventures
Richard Pan
Power Corporation du Canada
Emmelle Segal
Administratrice de sociétés
Vanda Treiser
Administratrice de sociétés
Elizabeth Wirth
Wirth-Brand Inc., Wirth Rail
Alysia Yip Hoi
Maison Alysia
* Officiers