Huguette Tourangeau

Huguette Tourangeau, CM (August 12, 1938[1] – April 21, 2018[2]) was a French-Canadian operatic mezzo-soprano, particularly associated with the French and Italian repertories.

She was heard in Seattle as Malika in Lakmé; London as Urbain in Les Huguenots; and San Francisco as Elisabetta in Maria Stuarda, Adalgisa in Norma, Parséīs in Esclarmonde, and Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus.

She made her formal Metropolitan Opera debut on November 28, 1973, as Nicklausse in The Tales of Hoffmann (with Plácido Domingo in the titular role), and later sang Dorabella in Così fan tutte (1975–76), Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro (opposite Justino Díaz and Judith Blegen, 1976) and Parséïs in Esclarmonde (opposite Sutherland, 1976).

[4] Tourangeau sings in many recordings on Decca Records opposite Sutherland: Les Huguenots (1969), Messiah (1970), Rigoletto (1971), Lucia di Lammermoor (1971), Les contes d'Hoffmann (1971), Maria Stuarda (1975), L'oracolo (with Tito Gobbi, 1975), Esclarmonde (1975), Le roi de Lahore (with Luis Lima, 1979), and Rodelinda (as Unulfo, 1985).

She also recorded Thérèse (with Louis Quilico, 1974) and El amor brujo (with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, 1981) and made two recital discs: "Arias from Forgotten Operas" (1970) and art songs by Massenet (with Bonynge at the piano, 1975).