Metropolitan Opera Photo Colette Boky As Mussetta in La Boheme Louis Melancon

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Boky, Colette,
née
Giroux, soprano, professor (b at Montréal 4 June 1935). On the advice of conductor Jean Deslauriers, she began vocal training in 1953. She made her Canadian debut (1961) in Mozart's
Marriage of Figaro
and her European debut (1964) in Haydn's
The Apothecary
.
In 1962 she won the Prix d'Europe and a second award, as well as a medal in the Geneva international competition. She sang at the Bremen Opera, the Salzburg Festival, the Munich Festival and the Volksoper in Vienna. Her arrival at the Metropolitan Opera (1967) in the role of the Queen of the Night in
The Magic Flute
was a highlight of her career. Some of Boky's best- known roles have been in Poulenc's
Dialogue des Carmélites
and
Les Mamelles de Térésias
, and in Puccini's
Suor Angelic
Louis Mélançon
(1901-1974) was the in-house
photographer
for the Metropolitan Opera from 1947 to his death in 1974.