- Huguette Tourangeau was born on August 12, 1938 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. She was an actress, known for The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977), Quartet (2012) and Who's Afraid of Opera? (1972). She was married to Barry W. Thompson. She died on April 21, 2018 in Canada.
- SpouseBarry W. Thompson(? - April 30, 2009) (his death)
- French-Canadian opera singer (mezzo-soprano).
- She won the Metropolitan National Council auditions in 1964. Her debut role was Mercédès in "Carmen" with Zubin Mehta conducting. In 1973, she made her formal Met debut as Nicklausse in "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" with Plácido Domingo. She frequently worked with Dame Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge.
- She made her operatic debut as Mercédès in Carmen, under Zubin Mehta, in 1964, also in Montreal.
- Tourangeau appears in Christopher Nupen's 1973 film Carmen: the Dream and the Destiny, which documents a production of Carmen at the Hamburg State Opera (directed by Regina Resnik) in which Placido Domingo plays Don José to her Carmen. In 1978, she was seen in the Met's televised performance of Don Giovanni, as Zerlina, which was her final role at that theatre. She last appeared in a staged opera performance in Lyon in 1980 in ''Werther.
- During the 1965-66 season, she appeared as Carmen in fifty-six cities throughout North America with the Metropolitan National Company. Around that time, she began a partnership with Dame Joan Sutherland and Bonynge, both on stage and on record. She was heard in Seattle as Malika in Lakmé; London as Urbain in Les Huguenots; and San Francisco as Elisabetta in Maria Stuarda, Adalgisa in Norma, and Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus.
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