Judith Forst

Judith Doris Forst (born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian mezzo-soprano.

Born in New Westminster, British Columbia, she received a Bachelor of Music from the University of British Columbia in 1964.

Forst made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera on September 19, 1968 at the age of 24 in the small role of the Page in Rigoletto. Other Met roles include (in chronological order) Tebaldo in Verdi's Don Carlo, Stéphano in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, Mercédès in Bizet's Carmen, Teresa in Bellini's La Sonnambula, Siebel in Gounod's Faust, Kate Pinkerton in Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Lola in Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana, Bersi in Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chenier, Estrella in Offenbach's La Perichole, Preziosilla in La Forza del Destino, Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel, Flora in La Traviata, Giulietta in Les Contes d'Hoffman, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Mère Marie in Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, Kabanicha in Janacek's Káťa Kabanová, Adelaide in Arabella, The Witch in Hänsel und Gretel, and Kostelnicka in Jenufa.

In 1991, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2001, she was awarded the Order of British Columbia.

External links

* [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0001256 Judith Forst] at The Canadian Encyclopedia