Judith Doris Forst (née Lumb)OC OBC (born November 7, 1943) is a Canadianmezzo-soprano.

Born inNew Westminster,British Columbia, she received aBachelor of Music from theUniversity of British Columbia in 1964. She is the sister-in-law of long time Vancouver radio personality Brian (Frosty) Forst. In 1968 she won theMetropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

Forst made her debut at theMetropolitan Opera on September 19, 1968, at the age of 24 in the small role of the Page inRigoletto. Other Met roles include (in chronological order) Tebaldo inVerdi'sDon Carlo, Stéphano inGounod'sRoméo et Juliette, Mercédès inBizet'sCarmen, Teresa inBellini'sLa sonnambula, Siebel in Gounod'sFaust, Kate Pinkerton inPuccini'sMadama Butterfly, Lola inMascagni'sCavalleria rusticana, Bersi inUmberto Giordano'sAndrea Chénier, Estrella inOffenbach'sLa Périchole, Preziosilla inLa forza del destino, Hänsel inHänsel und Gretel, Flora inLa traviata, Giulietta inLes contes d'Hoffman, Donna Elvira inDon Giovanni, Mère Marie inPoulenc'sDialogues of the Carmelites, Kabanicha inJanáček'sKáťa Kabanová, Adelaide inArabella, The Witch inHänsel und Gretel, and Kostelnicka inJenůfa.

In 1991, she was made an Officer of theOrder of Canada. In 2001, she was awarded theOrder of British Columbia.^[1]

Further reading

• So, Joseph (May 2007)."Judith Forst: Evergreen".La Scena Musicale, Vol. 12, No. 8

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