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 wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.

Honours

In 1967 Forrester was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. She sang at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1975 in Das Rheingold Siegfried and Un ballo in maschera. See also

Music of Canada
Canadian Music Hall of Fame.

Maureen Kathleen Stewart Forrester CC OQ (25 July 1930 – 16 June 2010) was a Canadian operatic contralto.