“Joanie Lapalme: Fighting for the Opera” by Natasha Beaudin Pearson, My Scena
La Scena Musicale quotes Montréal lawyer, Joanie Lapalme in an article on Opéra de Montréal’s Young Associates Committee.
“The financial support we can bring is important, but it is limited – at least for the moment – so the main goal of the Young Associates Committee was to make Montreal’s young business community more engaged, more connected to their opera house. It was a concern for us and for the initial committee we formed, which was made up of a dozen young professionals, all very involved within the Montreal business community. The priority was not so much to fill the concert halls, but rather to create a community of young people that would be there to support the Opéra de Montréal in the medium and long terms.”
