 Over the past few seasons, Jean-François Lapointe made his debut in the roles of Chorèbe, ("Les Troyens") in Geneva, Escamillo, ("Carmen"), in Lausanne, France and in Japan, and of Zurga, ("Les pêcheurs de perles"), at the Opera of Toulon, in January 2009.His performance of Pelléas (2005) in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande became a career-defining moment, a role he sang in North America (including Toronto and Cincinnati) as well as Europe