Pierrette Alarie was married to the French-Canadian tenor Leopold Simoneau.
14 Facts About Pierrette Alarie
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Pierrette Alarie studied voice and acting early and performed on radio from the age of 9, first as an actress and later as a singer of popular music.
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Pierrette Alarie sang Marie in Donizetti's La fille du regiment and the lead role in Mireille.
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Pierrette Alarie won the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air and made her Metropolitan Opera debut on December 8,1945, as Oscar in Un ballo in maschera under Bruno Walter.
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Pierrette Alarie spent three seasons at the Met singing Olympia in Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann and Blonde in Mozart's Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, among others.
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Pierrette Alarie married French Canadian tenor Leopold Simoneau in 1946.
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Pierrette Alarie sang the lead role in operas such as Les pecheurs de perles, Lakme, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Lucia di Lammermoor, and Rigoletto.
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Pierrette Alarie had an important career in North America, appearing in opera and in recital in San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York City, New Orleans, etc.
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In Canada, Pierrette Alarie performed frequently on television, Radio-Canada and CBC.
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Pierrette Alarie performed regularly at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto and the Vancouver Opera.
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Pierrette Alarie gave her last performance in Handel's The Messiah with her husband in Montreal, on November 24,1970.
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Pierrette Alarie founded with her husband the Canada Opera Piccola in Victoria, British Columbia in 1982.
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Pierrette Alarie received a Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.
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Pierrette Alarie died in Victoria, British Columbia on July 10,2011, aged 89, from natural causes.