2026 Adjudicators

“A particular pleasure was Nova Scotia-born tenor Marcel d’Entremont as Rodolfo... he is destined for a great operatic career.”

                                                                                   John Terauds, Toronto Star

 

“As Edgardo, tenor Marcel d’Entremont gave the most polished and stylistic performance of the evening.”
                                                                             Matthew Timmermans, Opera Canada

 

Canadian tenor Marcel d’Entremont has performed widely across Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Europe, appearing with major orchestras, festivals, and opera companies. His solo recitals have been broadcast nationally by CBC Radio, and he starred as Rodolfo in La bohème with Against the Grain Theatre, the first Canadian professional opera to be live-streamed and featured on CBC Gem.

Highlights as a soloist include Elijah with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Mendelssohn Choir, A Little Night Music at Koerner Hall, Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings with the Prince Edward Island Symphony Orchestra, Messiah with Orchestre classique de Montréal, and the Three Tenors Plus One series in The Villages, Florida. He has given recitals at Montréal’s Chapelle Historique du Bon Pasteur and at Mexico’s Festival de Febrero and has appeared with major companies such as the Opéra Royal de Versailles, Canadian Opera Company, Opéra de Rouen, Vancouver Opera, Tapestry Opera, Saskatoon Opera, and Opera Nova Scotia. He has toured with Debut Atlantic, Pacific Opera Victoria, and Jeunesses Musicales du Canada, and has been a resident artist at the National Arts Centre, Toronto Summer Music, the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance, and the Banff Centre, where he created the role of Zacarias in Paola Prestini and Royce Vavrek’s Silent Light. He is also a former Equilibrium Young Artist, after being personally selected by soprano Barbara Hannigan.

Marcel is an experienced educator, having led voice masterclasses in Mexico and at Dalhousie and Mount Allison Universities, and served as a guest lecturer at Acadia University. He has adjudicated voice and musical theatre for Canada’s National Music Festival, where he is a former Grand Award winner, presented to the top performer in any discipline nationwide. His numerous awards include the Atlantic Young Artist Competition, the HAL Leonard International Vocal Competition, the St. Andrews Aria Competition, and the Wirth Vocal Prize, the most prestigious music award at a Canadian university. He has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Nova Scotia Talent Trust, and the IMAGINE Arts Incubator, and in 2020 was named one of CBC Music’s “30 Hot Canadian Classical Musicians Under 30.”

In addition to his work as a performer, Marcel is also the creator and co-producer of A World Transformed, an interdisciplinary production that blends music by Tchaikovsky, Joni Mitchell, The Beatles, and Simon & Garfunkel with dance and spoken word to tell the story of Matthew Shepard and his mother Judy Shepard. Developed in collaboration with Echo Chamber, the show has been presented as a fully staged production in Toronto, Oakville, Halifax, Ottawa Chamberfest, and at Mount Allison and Acadia Universities.