 Thanks to his stage presence and his acting skills, he achieved great success in the operetta repertoire, performing the roles of Brissac, ("Les mousquetaires au couvent"), to great acclaim in Toulouse, le Vice-roi du Pérou ("la Périchole") in Marseille and Nancy, and especially Danilo, ("La veuve joyeuse") in Montréal, Bordeaux, Liège and Lausanne.Though a noted performer of the French opera repertoire, Jean-François Lapointe also made his mark in the Italian and Russian repertoire