Colette Boky (born Marie-Rose Élisabeth Giroux; June 4, 1935), CQ OC[1] is a French-Canadian operatic soprano, particularly associated with lyric roles in the French, Italian, and German repertories.
Born Marie-Rose Élisabeth Giroux, in Montreal, Quebec, she studied voice at the École de musique Vincent-d'Indy from 1953–55, and then privately with Laurette Bailly.
After winning a voice competition in 1958, she entered the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal, where she was a pupil of Roy Royal and Otto-Werner Mueller.
She was to remain at the Met until 1979, singing some 25 leading roles there, such as Juliette, Marguerite, Pamina, Adina, Lucia, Gilda, Violetta, the four heroines of Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss, among others.
The first on the RCA Victor Canada label (LSC-2693) from the mid-1960s is "Colette Boky Chante/Sings Strauss" and includes operetta and light Viennese classics and waltzes,[2] Guy Luypaerts conducting; the second recorded in 1977 is on Radio Canada International (RCI-463) and includes melodies by Claude Debussy and Gabriel Faure with Janine Lachance at the piano;[2] the third is a CD collection of "Sacred Arias" by Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Mozart, Gounod, and Schubert on the Fonovox label, issued in 1996.