Camille Bernard (February 25, 1898 – July 16, 1984) was a

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opera singer, actress and music educator from

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."Camille Bernard"
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'', July 29, 2007. She was most noted as the founder of the Institut Camille-Bernard, a prominent theatre and music school in

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. Trained under Béatrice La Palme and Salvator Issaurel, she was a regular performer in Quebec until being invited in 1924 to study in

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. Completing her training under

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and Yvette Guilbert, and regularly performed in both France and Canada for a number of years thereafter. In 1929 she founded the Théâtre des petits, a children's school of diction, and later founded the École nouvelle, a school for children with language difficulties; the two institutions later merged into the Institut Camille-Bernard. The Théâtre des petits also had a regular radio program on Montreal's

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. In 1973, she had her only major acting role, in

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's film '' Kamouraska''. She won the

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for Best Supporting Actress. She was inducted into the

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in 1981."Order of Canada: Camille Bernard, C.M."

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, April 30, 2009.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bernard, Camille 1898 births 1984 deaths Canadian sopranos Canadian music educators Canadian film actresses Best Supporting Actress Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners Singers from Montreal Actresses from Montreal Members of the Order of Canada 20th-century Canadian actresses 20th-century Canadian women singers Canadian women music educators