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Internationally-renowned bass Joseph
Rouleau was born in Matane, Quebec, in 1929. A recipient
of the Silver Medal for his 30 years of service to the
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, he has performed in the
major opera houses of the world and at the largest
international festivals. The only Canadian performer to
have toured the former Soviet Union three times, Joseph
Rouleau played the role of Philip II in Verdi’s Don
Carlo with the company of the Bolshoi Theatre and the
role of Mephistopheles in Gounod’s Faust. His partners
on the international stage have included such
distinguished performers as Victoria de Los Angeles,
Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland, Cesare Siepi,
Placido Domingo, Kiri Te Kanawa and Maria Callas. Among
his many recordings are Semiramide by Rossini, Boris
Godunov by Mussorgsky, Great French Opera Arias, Romeo
and Juliet by Gounod and L’Enfance du Christ by Berlioz.
He has been featured on numerous television and radio
programs. Throughout his long, successful and
distinguished career, Joseph Rouleau has received many
honours. He was promoted in 2004 to the rank of Grand
Officier de l’Ordre national du Québec and received in
November 2004 the Governor General’s Performing Arts
Award. Order of Canada Officer, he is the founder of the
Mouvement pour l’art lyrique du Quebec which gave rise
to the Opéra de Montréal. He taught at the Université du
Québec à Montréal between 1980 and 1998. He has been the
President of Jeunesses Musicales of Canada for seventeen
years and has co-founded the Concours Musical
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