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Article: On wings of song: contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux reflects on her musical journey from Lac-Saint-Jean.
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- Opera Canada
- Article date:
- November 1, 2007
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French-Canadian contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux has one of the most attractive personalities on the stage today, her natural ebullience and warm presence embracing audiences wherever she performs. There is no facade, no artifice, no empty posturing. The antithesis of a diva, she radiates a natural, unaffected elegance, punctuated by an infectious laugh and a sense of the theatrical that has her impersonating the likes of Edith Piaf at the drop of a hat. In conversation, she seems to welcome you almost as a family member, a sign perhaps of what family means to this prodigiously talented artist. "Yes, yes, yes, family is so important," she says in her charmingly accented ...