Frédérique_Vézina
Frédérique Vézina
Canadian operatic soprano (born c. 1977)
Frédérique Vézina (born c. 1977) is a Canadian operatic soprano. Vézina gained recognition when she made her Canadian Opera Company debut in 2002–2003 as Lisa and Mascha in Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades.[1][2] Critics hailed the arrival of a major presence on the operatic stage.[3] Critic Robert Everett-Green of The Globe and Mail praised her "big Act III aria" as "eloquent testimony to the character's own addiction to emotional gambling."[4] She was cast in the Canadian debut of The Handmaid's Tale in 2004.[5] She was featured as Ellen Orford in Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes[1] and Belinda in Dido and Aeneas. Vézina played Filumena at the National Arts Centre 28 April 2005 and 30 April.[6]