Dominique Labelle

soprano

Born in Canada, Dominique Labelle first came to international prominence as Donna Anna in Peter Sellars' production of Don Giovanni, which she performed in New York, Paris, and Vienna. She was also seen in the PBS telecast of the production, which aired internationally and has been released on home video.

Whether in opera or in concert, the luminous beauty of her voice, her charismatic stage presence, and her impeccable musicianship are unmistakable. She is sought after by such conductors as Pierre Boulez, Bernard Haitink, Christopher Hogwood, Kurt Masur, Nicholas McGegan, John Nelson, Sir Roger Norrington, Seiji Ozawa, Leonard Slatkin, Michael Tilson Thomas, Franz Welzer-Most and David Zinman and has sung with most of the major U.S. orchestras including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Los Angeles and San Francisco, among others.

Concert highlights for Ms. Labelle include Mahler's Symphony No. 2, Poulenc's Stabat Mater, Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortileges, and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and Symphony No. 9, both with the late Robert Shaw.

Certainly one of today's finest interpreters of Handel, she is closely associated with his recently discovered Gloria. She presented the modern-day premiere of the Gloria at the International Handel Festival Gottingen, with Nicholas McGegan conducting the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and has since performed it with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Wiener Akademie (In Vienna's Musikverein), among others. She is much in demand for performances of the works of Bach, Handel, and Mozart, with modern- and period-instrument orchestras alike.

Her most recent opera roles include the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor (Seattle and Boston), Violetta in La Traviata (Boston), and the title role in Handel's Rodelinda (Gottingen). She reprised Donna Anna in an abridged film version of the work, starring Dmitri Hvorostovsky.

Outside North America her engagements have included the International Handel Festival Gottingen Festival, the BBC Proms, The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Paris, the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the English Consort, the Gabrieli Consort, the Bach Collegium of Japan and the Melbourne Symphony.

A committed recitalist, Ms. Labelle has touched audiences with her profound and sensitive interpretations of music and text. Her appearances have included solo recitals at New York's Weill Hall, Lincoln Center, the 92nd St. Y, The Vocal Arts Society in Washington, D.C., and appearances in Boston, Montreal, Moscow, Quebec and London, among others.

Her many recordings, with repertoire from the 17th to the 21st centuries, appear on Virgin Veritas, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, RCA Victor Red Seal, Koss, Denon, New World, and Musica Omnia labels.

Ms. Labelle lives in central Massachusetts with her husband, two children, and a bulldog. She is a National Winner of the Metropolitan Opera competition, and is also the recipient of a George London Foundation Award, and Boston University's Distinguished Alumni Award.

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