Magali Simard-Galdès as Fire/Nightingale

A young artist at the Atelier lyrique de l'Opéra de Montréal, Magali Simard-Galdès has completed her studies with Aline Kutan at the Montreal Conservatory of Music (MCM). Between 2010 and 2014 she was a first-prize winner at the Canadian Music Competition, a finalist at the Hélène-Roberge Music Competition and a regional finalist at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Magali was featured as Venus in Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers (Montreal West Operatic Society, 2012), as Barbarina in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (Opera da Camera, 2013), as Lilette in Raoul Moretti’s Trois jeunes filles nues (Productions Belle Lurette, 2013), as Miss Pinkerton in Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief (MCM’s opera workshop, 2014) and as the 1 ^st Trio member in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti (McGill Chamber Orchestra, 2015). She was also very proud to be the Young Emerging Artist in the 2014 edition of the chamber music festival "Concerts aux Îles du Bic".