Maureen Forrester

Maureen Forrester, CC, OQ (born July 25, 1930) is a Canadian operatic contralto. She was born as Maureen Kathleen Stewart Forrester in Montreal, Quebec as one of four children to Thomas Forrester and May Arnold, and grew up in a poor section of east Montreal. At age 13, she dropped out of school to help support the family, working as a secretary at Bell Telephone. Forrester was able to pay for voice lessons with Sally Martin, Frank Rowe, and bari... more

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