50e<\/sup> Office franco-qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois pour la jeunesse (OFQJ) Award<\/strong><\/p>\n Voice 2018<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Biography 2018: A grant holder from the Jeunesses Musicales Canada Foundation, the Vancouver Opera Guild and the Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation, Magali SimardGald\u00e8s hails from Rimouski, QC. In the fall of 2017, Magali made her U.S. d\u00e9but as Roxane in Cyrano with Opera Carolina after which she was invited to return to perform Gilda ( Rigoletto ) in a co-production with Toledo Opera. Past engagements include Constance in Dialogue des carm\u00e9lites with Op\u00e9ra de Montr\u00e9al, Flowermaiden in Parsifal at the Festival international de Lanaudi\u00e8re, \u00c8ve in Paradis Perdu at Atelier lyrique de Tourcoing, and as Nicette in Le pr\u00e9 aux clercs at the Wexford Festival Opera. Prize winner of the 2015 Jeunesses Musicales Canada\u2019s Maureen Forrester Award, Magali fulfilled in 20162017 an Eastern Canada tour of 30 recitals. She completed her studies at the Conservatoire de musique de Montr\u00e9al where she graduated with unanimous distinction. Magali was also a Young Artist with l\u2019Op\u00e9ra de Montr\u00e9al\u2019s Atelier Lyrique and a Fellow at both the Ravinia Steans Music Institute and Acad\u00e9mie du Festival d\u2019Aix-en-Provence.<\/p>\n Magali Simard-Gald\u00e8s is generously sponsored by Daniel Lalonde.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Magali Simard-Gald\u00e8s website<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h2>\n
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