Nicole Car & Etienne Dupuis Join Canadian Vocal Arts Institute

By Francisco Salazar

Nicole Car and Étienne Dupuis have joined the Canadian Vocal Arts Institute as co-artistic directors.

This year’s “Intensive Summer Program” for opera singers, young pianists and conductors runs from July 9th to August 4th, 2023 and includes lessons with the faculty’s teachers, seminars, private coachings as well as masterclasses with other renowned international artists such as Michael Fabiano.

The program will also include concerts and a staged performance of Puccini’s “La bohème” on July 30 conducted by Victorien Vanoosten and staged by Marc Hervieux, starring the alumni of the program.

Car and Dupuis will join a list of teachers and coaches that also includes Benjamin Butterfield, Tracy Dahl, Marc-Antoine d’Aragon, Teresa Rodriguez, Claude Webster, Francesca White, Stephen Grant, Julien Proulx, Benoît Brière, Nathalie Deschamps, Laurent Philippe, Deborah Birnbaum, Thomas Jaber, Alain Trudel, Matthew Polenzani, Francis Perron, Stephanie Fromentin, Anthony Legge and Katie Ward.

The co-founders and artistic directors emeritus of the International Vocal Arts Institute, Paul Nadler & Joan Dornemann, will also be back this summer to join this superb group of opera specialists.

The Canadian Vocal Arts Institute (ICAV) is a non-profit organization with a dual mandate: to provide high-caliber training to the best emerging Canadian and international singers, pianists, and conductors and to present to the public a varied and captivating program of some twenty events, presented at the Montreal Vocal Arts Festival.

Car and Dupuis perform regularly at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Paris Opera, Vienna State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, among other theaters around the world.

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