ソプラノ歌手： ドミニク・ラーベル Dominique Labelle
Dominique Labelle (born 1960) is a Canadian soprano and voice teacher.
Life
She studied at McGill University and Boston University.
Dominique Labelle is internationally known for her collaborations and CD recordings of baroque music, especially Handel, Bach and Vivaldi, but her repertoire extends as far as new music.
In 1991 she sang Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni, staged by Peter Sellars, which was performed in New York, Paris and Vienna.
At the Gottingen Handel Festival, she sang the title role in Rodelinda (2000), the role of Armida in Rinaldo (2004) and Angelica in Orlando (2008), and took part in the world premiere of Handel's Gloria (2001).
On the opera stage, Dominique Labelle has also sung the Countess Almaviva in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, the title role in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Violetta in La Traviata.
Her repertoire also includes Bach's Mass in B minor and St. Matthew's Passion, Handel's Belshazzar, Mozart's Requiem, Beethoven's Missa solemnis and Ninth Symphony, Verdi's Requiem, as well as Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 2 "Lobgesang", Mahler's Symphony No. 2 , and Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortileges.
From the 20th century, she has interpreted works such as Francis Poulenc's Stabat Mater, Benjamin Britten's Les Illuminations, John Harbison's The Rewaking (on CD by Musica Omnia) and Shostakovich's Seven Romances on Poetry of Alexander Blok.
Labelle has worked with conductors such as Ivan Fischer, Nicholas McGegan, Alan Curtis, Jos van Veldhoven, Jean-Marie Zeitouni, Robert Shaw, Pierre Boulez, Bernard Haitink, Christopher Hogwood, Kurt Masur, Sir Roger Norrington, Seiji Ozawa, Leonard Slatkin, Michael Tilson Thomas, and David Zinman. She has performed with orchestras around the world, such as the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, the Ensemble Complesso Barocco, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, the Bach Collegium Japan, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, English Concert, Gabrieli Consort, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, theCity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Melbourne Symphony, and with the most important American orchestras: the Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and with the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Boston, Cincinnati, Houston, Saint Louis and San Francisco.
The composer Yehudi Wyner has not only accompanied Dominique Labelle in recitals, but has also composed several works for her.
Dominique Labelle teaches singing at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University, where she received Music's Outstanding Teacher Award for her teaching in May 2018. She has also given master classes at the Classical Singers Convention in Boston, Harvard University, the San Francisco Conservatory, Smith College, Vassar College, and the University of Massachusetts.
Awards
Dominique Labelle has been awarded a number of prizes:
- In 1989, she won New England First Place and was the National Council Winner.
- National Winner at the Metropolitan Opera competition
- George London Foundation Award
- Boston University Distinguished Alumni Award
- In the fall of 2018, she was awarded the Ruby Award by Opera Canada.