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Bruno Laplante, baritone
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Bruno Laplante was born in Beauharnois (Province of Québec, Canada), where he came into contact with French music at an early age since the |
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After five years as a student at the Conservatory, he was awarded a Premier Prix diploma in vocal performance, then a Prix d'Europe for singing, and went on in Paris, France, to train with Pierre Bernac for three years. This is where he acquired the art of musical interpretation, deriving the essence of each song, and especially of its literary text, and then communicating the entire range of its colours to the audience. His time in France also provided him an opportunity to gain an inside view of European culture. He took part in several national and international competitions and won various awards and prizes, including a Special Performance Prize at Guelph (Ontario) when coming back to Canada for a short time. Upon returning to Quebec in the early 1970s, he organized several important recitals of French art songs. The scope of his repertory resulted in a number of recording contracts for radio broadcasts, bringing his name before the general public. He was receptive to new music, and gave the first performances of several works. He also sang for television, toured for Youth and Music in both Canada and France, and founded and conducted the Montreal ensemble "Cantabile".
His international career developed quickly following the release of his first recitals on the Calliope label. He toured in Europe, as a soloist in
He also performed recitals in prestigious venues such as the Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Kungstring Diligentia in the Hague, the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Theatro Sao Luis in Lisbon, the Bunka Kaikan and Casals Hall in Tokyo, and Izumi Hall in Osaka, and at the Festival du Marais in Paris, the
Recording has long played an important role in his artistic career, and he is
Since 1989, he is part of a lyric duet with the In 1994 they make Quebec City their home base, from where they continue to launch their national and international tours and to record their new albums: "L'opérette française" (1997), "Éternels baisers" (1998), ... In 1998 France Duval (Gemma) with Bruno Laplante (Bigot the Intendant, Laplante being also the producer and artistic director of the show) and six other classical singers, sixty musicians of the Quebec Symphonic Orchestra, and a chorus, let people revive in Quebec City a forgotten Canadian historical Opera, "L'Intendant Bigot" (1929): two nice outside performances at night in presence of a large public, in which are many descendants of the composer, Ulric Voyer. – The music scores of this Opera are the first scores (of about one hundred in the next fifteen years) that Bruno Laplante publishes, under the name of Les Éditions du Nouveau Théâtre Musical that he creates in year 2000, still being their artistic director. At the end of march 2004, Laplante and Duval make the world premiere of two works by Charles Gounod, with orchestra: the cantata Fernand (1839) and the Hymn La Liberté éclairant le monde (1876).
After several other tours, mainly in both his native country and in France, Bruno Laplante served as a member of prestigious jurys: up to On April 23, 2010, Bruno Laplante received an important distinction from the French Republic, being named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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