Maureen Forrester
Maureen Kathleen Stewart Forrester was a Canadian operatic contralto whose career spanned the opera stage and extended into work as a director, musician, musicologist, biographer, and screenwriter.
Born in Montreal on July 25, 1930, Forrester built a career rooted in opera and the wider performing arts. Her work earned her a remarkable range of institutional recognition: she received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award, the Molson Prize, the Order of Ontario, and the Officer of the National Order of Quebec. She was also invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada, one of the country's highest civilian honors, and was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and Canada's Walk of Fame. Honorary doctorates came to her from Laval University, the University of British Columbia, Concordia University, and the University of Ottawa, a breadth of academic acknowledgment that reflected the sustained esteem in which her contributions were held across the country.
Forrester died in Toronto on June 16, 2010, at the age of seventy-nine. Throughout her life she remained identified with the operatic form, and it is opera — as performer, as director, and as a field of scholarly and creative inquiry — that serves as the consistent thread running through her many and varied occupations.
Quotes by Maureen Forrester
I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn’t even give me one because I didn’t have my high school graduation.
When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women’s Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.
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