Judith Forst
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Judith Doris Forst (née Lumb) (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. She is the sister-in-law of long time Vancouver radio personality Brian (Frosty) Forst. In 1968 she won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
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 Chénier, Estrella in Offenbach's La Périchole, 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 Janáček's Káťa Kabanová, Adelaide in Arabella, The Witch in Hänsel und Gretel, and Kostelnicka in Jenůfa.
In 1991, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2001, she was awarded the Order of British Columbia.
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- The Inventor: Prologue. Come, Friends - Live - Tovey: The Inventor (Live) - Judith Forst
- The Inventor, Act I Scene 1: Halifax Is a Wonder - Live - Tovey: The Inventor (Live) - Judith Forst
- The Inventor, Act I Scene 1: It Will End with a Fine Big House - Live - Tovey: The Inventor (Live) - Judith Forst
- The Inventor, Act I Scene 1: I Am a Man of My Time - Live - Tovey: The Inventor (Live) - Judith Forst
- The Inventor, Act I Scene 2: I Had Great Success in Philly - Live - Tovey: The Inventor (Live) - Judith Forst
- The Inventor, Act I Scene 2: When I First Came to the City - Live - Tovey: The Inventor (Live) - Judith Forst
- The Inventor, Act I Scene 2: Oh, the Brandy Horse Was a Dandy Horse! - Live - Tovey: The Inventor (Live) - Judith Forst
- The Inventor, Act I Scene 3: Somewhere Where Doubt Is So Far - Live - Tovey: The Inventor (Live) - Judith Forst
- The Inventor, Act I Scene 3: You Are Called Cecelia? - Live - Tovey: The Inventor (Live) - Judith Forst
- The Inventor, Act I Scene 4: I Had Forgot How Cold It Can Be in Springtime - Live - Tovey: The Inventor (Live) - Judith Forst
- The Inventor, Act I Scene 5: Viel Lieben und viel Leben - Live - Tovey: The Inventor (Live) - Judith Forst
- The Inventor, Act I Scene 5: I Measure Our Life Not by the Little Time Behind Us - Live - Tovey: The Inventor (Live) - Judith Forst
- The Inventor, Act II Scene 6: Christian? Alexander? Don't Make a Mess - Live - Tovey: The Inventor (Live) - Judith Forst
- The Inventor, Act II Scene 7: Es gibt ein Schiff, un beau bateau - Live - Tovey: The Inventor (Live) - Judith Forst
- The Inventor, Act II Scene 7: We Are Starting Over in Dresden - Live - Tovey: The Inventor (Live) - Judith Forst
- The Inventor, Act II Scene 8: Entschuldigung bitte... - Live - Tovey: The Inventor (Live) - Judith Forst
- The Inventor, Act II Scene 9: Heads Will Turn... A Perfect Crime... - Live - Tovey: The Inventor (Live) - Judith Forst
- The Inventor, Act II Scene 10: Save What I Love... And What Loves Me... - Live - Tovey: The Inventor (Live) - Judith Forst
- The Inventor, Act II Scene 11: Entschuldigung, gnädiger Herr - Live - Tovey: The Inventor (Live) - Judith Forst
- The Inventor: Epilogue. I Was As Shocked As Mister Smoot on That Fateful Morning - Live - Tovey: The Inventor (Live) - Judith Forst
- The Inventor: Epilogue. There Is So Much I Could Say, yet I Feel It Is Already Said - Live - Tovey: The Inventor (Live) - Judith Forst
- Disasters of the Sun: No. 1. O you old gold garnered incredible sun - Pentland, B.: Disasters of the Sun - Judith Forst
- Disasters of the Sun: No. 2. The World is round - Pentland, B.: Disasters of the Sun - Judith Forst
- Disasters of the Sun: No. 3. Though I was certain we recognized each other - Pentland, B.: Disasters of the Sun - Judith Forst
- Disasters of the Sun: No. 4. My hands that used to be leaves - Pentland, B.: Disasters of the Sun - Judith Forst
- Disasters of the Sun: No. 5. During the last heat wave - Pentland, B.: Disasters of the Sun - Judith Forst
- Disasters of the Sun: No. 6. Keep out keep out of the way - Pentland, B.: Disasters of the Sun - Judith Forst
- Disasters of the Sun: No. 7. When the black sun's gone down - Pentland, B.: Disasters of the Sun - Judith Forst
- Commenta - Pentland, B.: Disasters of the Sun - Judith Forst
- Wind Octet - Pentland, B.: Disasters of the Sun - Judith Forst
- Piano Quintet - Pentland, B.: Disasters of the Sun - Judith Forst
Tableau - 2008-01-01 00:00:00
- Gitanjali: Light, my light, the world-filling light - Schafer: Gitanjali / Garden of the Heart / Adieu, Robert Schumann - Judith Forst
- Gitanjali: Thou hast made me endless - Schafer: Gitanjali / Garden of the Heart / Adieu, Robert Schumann - Judith Forst
- Gitanjali: When thou commandest me to sing - Schafer: Gitanjali / Garden of the Heart / Adieu, Robert Schumann - Judith Forst
- Gitanjali: Interlude - Schafer: Gitanjali / Garden of the Heart / Adieu, Robert Schumann - Judith Forst
- Gitanjali: You came down and stood at my cottage door - Schafer: Gitanjali / Garden of the Heart / Adieu, Robert Schumann - Judith Forst
- Gitanjali: I am here to sing thee songs - Schafer: Gitanjali / Garden of the Heart / Adieu, Robert Schumann - Judith Forst
- The Garden of the Heart - Schafer: Gitanjali / Garden of the Heart / Adieu, Robert Schumann - Judith Forst
- Adieu, Robert Schumann - Schafer: Gitanjali / Garden of the Heart / Adieu, Robert Schumann - Judith Forst
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