Real name: Joseph Roméo Jobin

Effective period / Period of releases: 1948 - 1995

Canadian (Québec) operatic tenor, teacher, administrator, civil servant, born April 8, 1906 and died January 13, 1974 in Quebec City. He was the greatest francophone tenor of his age. His studies, begun at Université Laval, Québec, were continued in Paris. He was first tenor at the Opéra-Comique de Paris during the 1930s before joining The Metropolitan Opera in New York (1940-50). He taught at the Conservatoire De Musique De Montréal and the Conservatoire De Musique Du Québec (where he was also director [1961-70]). Cultural consultant with Québec's general delegation in Paris (1970-73), he was made a knight of the Légion d'honneur in France (1951) and a Companion of the Order of Canada (1967).