Suzie LeBlanc
Suzie LeBlanc CM (born 1961 in Edmundston, New Brunswick) is a Canadian soprano and early music specialist, who has enjoyed an active international career performing in concerts throughout Europe, North America and Japan, in repertoire ranging from lute songs to chamber music to oratorio and early opera.
Suzie LeBlanc specializes in the 17th and 18th century repertoire. She has worked with Ensemble Tragicomedia, lute player Stephen Stubbs and has sung as a guest artist with the Purcell Quartet, the Parley of Instruments, Red Byrd, the Freiburger Barockorchester, Fretwork, Les Voix Humaines, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Teatro Lirico, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Musica Antiqua Köln, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, and Les Violons du Roy. LeBlanc has also received grants from the Canada Council and Quebec’s Ministry of Cultural Affairs.
Opera roles include Poppea in L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Opéra de Montréal, Clori in Handel’s Clori, Tirsi e Fileno, Euridice in Monteverdi’s Orfeo in Vienna, Stuttgart and Tokyo, and Drusilla in L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Malmö Festival. She is also the founder and artistic director of the Académie Baroque de Montréal.
LeBlanc frequently performs and records with countertenor Daniel Taylor.
Discography
- Caldara: La Conversione di Clodoveo, Re di Francia. Allyson McHardy (Clodoveo), Nathalie Paulin (Clotilde), Suzie Leblanc (San Remigio) & Matthew White (Uberto) Le Nouvel Opera, Alexander Weimann Atma 2011
- Nobil Donna. Music at the Barberini Palace. La Nef, Alexander Weimann Atma 2011
- Carissimi Oratorios Jonas. Historia Ezechia. Jephte. Historia di Job. Les Voix Baroques, Alexander Weimann, Matthew White Atma 2010
- Olivier Messiaen Chant de terre et de ciel Suzie LeBlanc, Robert Kortgaard, Laura Andriano, Lawrence Wiliford Atma 2008
- Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri Les Voix Baroques Atma Records 2007
- Acadian songs Vol.2 Chants d’Acadie: Tout passe Atma Classics 2007
- Suzie Leblanc a Portrait Handel Académie Baroque de Montréal, Claire Guimond 2006
- Mozart - Lieder Yannick Nézet-Séguin Atma 2006
- Bach - Cantatas for the Feast of Saint John the Baptist. Montréal Baroque: Eric Milnes, Daniel Taylor (countertenor), Charles Daniels (tenor), Stephan Macleod 2005
- Christoph Willibald Gluck Orphée et EurydiceCatherine Dubosc, Jean-Paul Fouchecourt, Opera Lafayette Orchestra, Opera Lafayette Chorus, Ryan Brown (conductor) Naxos 2005/03/22
- Pierre Bouteiller De vanitate mundi Les Voix Humaines, Margaret Little, Susie Napper, Sylvain Bergeron, Stephan Van Dyck, Alexander Weimann. Atma 2005
- Acadian songs Vol.1 La Mer jolie, chants d’Acadie with Sylvain Bergeron, David Greenberg, Betsy MacMillan, Chris Norman Atma 2004
- Primavera - Italian French and English baroque songs. Les Voix Humaines, Margaret Little, Susie Napper, Sylvain Bergeron, Olivier Brault, Francis Colpron, Vincent Dhavernas, Matthias Maute, Hélène Plouffe, Daniel Taylor. Atma 2004
- Vanitas Vanitatum: Rome 1650 - oratorios and motets by Giacomo Carissimi, Marco Marazzoli, Domenico Mazzocchi, Luigi Rossi, Stefano Landi, Virgilio Mazzocchi. Ensemble Tragicomedia dir. Stephen Stubbs. Teldec, reissued Warner Apex 2004
- Handel Acis and Galatea. Les Boréades (early music group), Eric Milnes, Francis Colpron, Mark Bleeke, Marc Molomot, Nathaniel Watson. Atma 2003
- Buxtehude Sacred Cantatas. Purcell Quartet, Emma Kirkby, Peter Harvey Chandos Records 2003
- Monteverdi Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610. Concerto Palatino, Tragicomedia, Leo van Doeselaar, Stephan MacLeod, dir. Stephen Stubbs Atma 2003
- Telemann and J.S. Bach. Actus Tragicus. Theatre of Early Music, Daniel Taylor, Ian Honeyman, Stephen Varcoe Atma 2003
- Handel Love Duets. Arion ensemble, Daniel Taylor, Stephen Stubbs Atma 2002
- Bach Cantatas 131, 152, 161 Theatre of Early Music: Daniel Taylor, Jan Kobow, Stephen Varcoe Atma 2002
- ¡Ay que si! Spanish baroque. Les Voix Humaines, Margaret Little, Susie Napper, Maxine Eilander, Rafik Samman, Stephen Stubbs Atma 2002
- Star of the Magi. Les Voix Humaines, Margaret Little, Susie Napper, Sylvain Bergeron, Francis Colpron, Rafik Samman, Daniel Taylor Atma 2001 - prix Opus 2002
- Handel Gloria (Handel). Ich esse mit Freuden mein weniges Brot, Cantata BWV 84 Académie baroque de Montréal, Alexander Weimann. Atma 2001
- Amour cruel. French baroque chansons. Les Voix Humaines, Margaret Little, Susie Napper, Sylvain Bergeron, Stephen Stubbs Atma 2001/02 - Prix Opus 2000: disque de l'année.
- Sartorio L’Orfeo. Teatro Lirico, Stephen Stubbs Challenge Classics 2001
- Amor Roma - Roman baroque, works of Luigi Rossi, Carissimi, Domenico Mazzochi. Tragicomedia. Challenge Classics 2000
- Vivaldi. Motets O qui coeli terraque serenitas. Gottfried von der Goltz, Jaap ter Linden, Claire Guimond Teatro Lirico, Stephen Stubbs. Challenge Classics 2001
- The Spirite of Musicke. English baroque music by Coprario, Hume and others. Les Voix Humaines, Margaret Little, Susie Napper Atma 1998
- Love and Death in Venice. Duets and arias by Cavalli, Hasse, Vivaldi. Derek Lee Ragin, Teatro Lirico, Stephen Stubbs Virgin Veritas, 1997
- Handel Clori, Tirsi e Fileno. Jörg Waschinski, David Cordier, Lautten Companey, Wolfgang Katschner. NCA 1997
- Ivan Moody Passion and Resurrection. Redbyrd, Capella Amsterdam. Hyperion Records 1997
- Virgilio Mazzocchi Lagrime amare. Tragicomedia, Stephen Stubbs. Teldec 1996
- Moulinié Airs de cour, premier livre. Stephen Stubbs CBC Records 1996
- Bononcini Amore Doppio. Lautten Company, Wolfgang Katschner NCA 1996
- Purcell Songs of Welcome and Farewell. Tragicomedia, Stephen Stubbs Teldec 1995
- Schütz Symphonia Sacrae, Purcell Quartet. Chandos 1995
- Hark How the Wild Musicians Sing. The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman Hyperion 1995
- Strozzi Cantatas. Musica Secreta Amon Ra Records 1994
- Antonio Draghi, John Blow Odes to Saint Cecilia. The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman. Hyperion 1994
- John Blow Awake my lyre. The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman 1993
- Luigi Rossi Le Canterine Romane. Tragicomedia, Stephen Stubbs Teldec 1992
- Monteverdi Il ballo delle ingrate. Tragicomedia, Stephen Stubbs Teldec 1992
- Luzzaschi The Secret Music of Luzzasco Luzzaschi. Musica Secreta Amon Ra Records 1992
- Music from the Age of Discovery. New World Consort CBC Records 1992
- De Monte, François Regnard. Musik am Prager Hof Kaiser Rudolfs II. Dialogo Musicale, Leo Meilink Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 2CD 1992
- Codex Las Huelgas. Sequentia Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 1992
- New Fashions. Cries & Ballads of London Circa 1500, Red Byrd, Nancy Hadden CRD Records 1992
- Monteverdi Il ottavo libro de madrigali Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley Virgin 1990
- De Wert Madrigali Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley Virgin 1989
- Campra. Musique en Nouvelle-France. REM Editions 1989
- Vivaldi. Magnificat. Tafelmusik, Ivars Taurins Hyperion 1987
- Au Verd Boys/To the Greenwood. New World Consort Collegium Records 1985
- Bach. Coffee Cantata and Peasant Cantata. BWV 211 & BWV 212 Brett Polegato, Nils Brown, Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik Analekta
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