These were Tourel's first performances in Montreal she sang the title roles in Mignon and Carmen. Leading Met singers included Bampton, Martinelli, Warren, and Jennie Tourel. The Met technical staff and scenery were used but the orchestra was that of the Montreal Festivals. In September 1941, the Montreal-based France-Film, leading French film distributor in Canada and owner of the St-Denis Theatre, joined forces with the Montreal Festivals to present at that theatre "Metropolitan Opera au Saint-Denis," seven performances using singers from the company and a number of Canadians for supporting roles, a chorus of 40, and 16 dancers all from the New York house, with Wilfrid Pelletier and Jean Morel as conductors, Désiré Defrère as stage director, and Fausto Cleva as chorus master. Singers included Sybil Sanderson, Emma Eames, and Marcel Journet.įour operas were offered in Montreal in 1911: Aida with Louise Homer, Emmy Destinn, and Antonio Scotti under Arturo Toscanini Madama Butterfly with Geraldine Farrar Tannhäuser with Olive Fremstad, Alma Gluck, and Leo Slezak and Faust with Jeanne Maubourg as Siebel. The Met returned to Toronto and Montreal in 1901 with Lohengrin, Romeo and Juliet, Faust, Manon, Carmen, and Tannhäuser. The cast included Marcella Sembrich, Giuseppe Campanari, Emma Calvé, Pol Plançon, and Édouard de Reszke.
This illustrious and venerable (founded 1883) New York company has influenced the development of opera in Canada through its tours, broadcasts, and talent-development programs.Īfter an appearance in Toronto ( at the Pavilion, in excerpts from Rossini's Semiramide) by Adelina Patti supported by Metropolitan Opera soloists and orchestra (about 20 instrumentalists) under Luigi Arditi, and after four concerts in Montreal (1896 at Windsor Hall) by the Metropolitan orchestra under Anton Seidl, the Metropolitan as a company gave its first season in Canada in 1899 performing La Traviata, Carmen, Faust, Romeo and Juliet, and The Barber of Seville at the Toronto Grand Opera House and Montreal's Her Majesty's Theatre.
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