UPCOMING EVENTS

UCO VALENTINES SALON 

An evening of love and intrigue

February 12th 2011

 8pm -  514 23rd street in Union City, New Jersey.

Selections from Grand Opera, Operetta, and Music Theater will be presented by members of The Union City Opera Ensemble.
 
*contact admin@unioncityopera.com for your invitiation

THE DEATH OF PEER GYNT

The World Premiere
of an original work created by Martin Halpern.

February 17,18,19 2011 

New York New Church 114 East 35th Street, New York, NY

Jean will perform the role of Emmissary in the world premier of The Death of Peer Gynt, an original work created by Martin Halpern.

Cast
Peer, Joshua South
Emissary, Jean Hebert
Solveig, Jacqueline Thompson

pianist, Early Buys
stage director, David Macdonald.


Canadian-American lyric tenor Jean Hébert has sung throughout North America as well as Europe and Asia. He received critical acclaim for his portrayals of Gerald in Lakmé at Toronto Opera and the role of Ubaldo Piangi in The Phantom of the Opera in Toronto and Asia.

Jean recently performed Remendado in Carmen in his debut with the Conneticut Grand Opera. He has performed with regional opera companies across Canada in such roles as Hoffmann in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Tonio in La Fille de Regiment, Rodolfo in La Bohème, Nadir in Les Pecheurs De Perles, Romeo in Romeo et Juliet, Tebaldo in I Capuletti Ed I Montecchi, Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, the title role in Prometheus, and Alfredo in La Traviata. Jean has also performed Werther with Brooklyn College.
 
On February 17, 18 and 19, Jean will Perform the role of Emmissary in the world premier of The Death of Peer Gynt, an original work created by Martin Halpern. Recently, Jean sang Carmina Burana with the Greenwich Choral Society as well as with Hunter College in NYC. Other concert engagements include Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Finger Lakes Symphony Orchestra, Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Messiah, and a Radio Canada live broadcast of Rachmaninoff’s Vespers with Choeur Chanson de Montreal. He has also performed in concerts at the Donnell Library and the Lincoln Center Libraries in New York City.

Jean has performed several gala concerts with Toronto Operetta Theater and North York Symphony, and the Viennese Gala Concert at The Ford Center for the Performing Arts. During his studies, he performed frequently with the Vancouver Opera, the Vancouver Symphony, the Toronto Opera and the Toronto Operetta Theater.

In addition to his turn as Signor Piangi, Jean’s other musical theatre roles include The Curate in The House of Martin Guerre with Live Entertainment Inc., Tony in West Side Story and Lun Tha in The King and I.

In television and film, Jean has appeared as Officer Down in the mini-series Robocop: Prime Directives for Fireworks Entertainment and as Pilot in the feature film Airborne for Alliance Atlantis.

Jean is Co-Founder and President of the new Union City Opera in New Jersey.

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