Caro Lamoureux

Marie Julienne Antoinette Caroline Lamoureux (January 3, 1904 – August 11, 1998) was a Canadian soprano who debuted at age 16 in the operetta Les noces de Jeannette and worked in a semi-professional capacity for nine years in supporting roles in operettas done by French troupes in Quebec. Lamoureux performed with the and the and sang numerous roles on CBC Radio. She gave up public singing and worked as a florist in Montreal with two shops.

Early life Lamoureux was born on January 3, 1904 in Montreal, her mother was an American pianist from Chicago and her father played many instruments.

Career At 16, Lamoureux, a soprano, She sung Baucis in Charles Gounod's Philémon et Baucis and Gemma in the Canadian composer Joachim Ulric Voyer's L'Intendant Bigot in 1931. In 1933, she sang Néméa in Adolphe Adam's Si j'étais roi put on by the Société canadienne d'opérette that April, and sung Under the Bridges of Paris on the NBC Radio Network. Lamoureux sung the title role of Emmerich Kálmán's Die Csárdásfürstin in June 1934, and Rosina in The Barber of Seville that same year. a company she worked with until 1946. and Babet et Cadet. She gave a recital of songs at the Tudor Hall in December 1937. Lamoureux and Reda Caire performed together in the operetta The Merry Widow at the Monument-National in March 1939, and repeated it in a series of performances in Nîmes, Salon-de-Provence and Sète in Southern France during a European tour before she had to leave France because of World War II. In March 1940, Lamoureux returned to the Les Variétés lyriques in its production of Robert Planquette's operetta Les cloches de Corneville as the role of Serpolette. She also sung in another production of Kálmán's Die Csárdásfürstin in November 1940. In 1941, Lamoureux sung the title role in the musical Naughty Marietta at the Monument-National, had a role in the Oscar Straus operetta The Chocolate Soldier, made her dramatic theatre debut as the coquette Germaine in André Picard's three-act play Kiki, was in a lead role in the Les Variétés lyriques's production of The New Moon, and was in the operetta Les noces de Jeannette at the Church of the Gesù that December.

She sung the part of the Russian actress Nadia in Bruno Granichstaedten's three-part opera L’Orloff at the Monument-National in 1942, as well as the role of Wanda in the opéra bouffe La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein that November. Lamoureux sung the part of Violetta in La traviata, and Philine in Mignon in 1943. Katherine de Vaucelles in The Vagabond King in January 1945, and the titular role in the operetta Countess Maritza in early 1946. Between 1930 and 1943, Lamoureux sang many major roles on CBC Radio under the direction of various conductors, such as Jean-Marie Beaudet, Lamoureux appeared on the CBF-FM program Les Musiciens pareux-mêmes in January 1991.

Death She died in Montreal on August 11, 1998. and was called the Do-Do Girls alongside Rose Comete and Eleanor Hamel. The Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec holds the Caro Lamoureux Collection that it acquired from Lamoureux's estate.