Maureen Kathleen Stewart Forrester, CC OQ (25 July 1930 – 16 June 2010) was a Canadian operatic contralto. Read full biography of Maureen Forrester →
It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.
Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that... →
When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would... →
By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they... →
I have three grandchildren and am hoping for 20.
My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always... →
Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is... →
I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.
I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about, but who have been... →
I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they... →
Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at... →
Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.
I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.
Maureen Kathleen Stewart Forrester, CC OQ (25 July 1930 – 16 June 2010) was a Canadian operatic contralto.