Lyne Fortin is one of Canada's leading sopranos, with appearances with L'Opera de Montreal in the title roles of Agrippina, Thais, La Traviata and Romeo et Juliette, Elvira in Don Giovanni, Mimi in La Boheme, Antonia in Les Contes d'Hoffman, Leila in Les Pecheurs des Perles, Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, Olga in Fedora, Gilda in Rigoletto,and Micaela in Carmen, Vancouver Opera as Mimi, Leila andMicaela, Opera Saskatchewan, Calgary Opera and Edmonton Opera as Violetta in La Traviata, Opera de Quebec as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, Gilda in Rigoletto, Mimi,Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow, and Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, and Opera Hamilton and Edmonton Opera as Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and Edmonton Opera as Violetta and for all three heroines in Les Contes d'Hoffman, and Opera Hamilton as Violetta, Leila and La Voix Humaine. Last season, she will return to Montreal and to Opera Ontario as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni. In recent seasons, she made her role debut in the title role of Carmen for the Edmonton Opera, and return to L’Opera de Montreal and Opera de Quebec as “Stella Starlight” in the spectacle Starmania..and Erwartung for Opera de Quebec. This season, she will return to Calgary as Donna Anna.

In Europe, she has appeared with the Flanders Opera as Madame de Tourvel in the world premiere of a new opera based on Dangerous Liasons, Ginevra in Handel’s Ariodante, Electra in Idomeneo, and in concert for Haydn's Creation and the Scottish Opera as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni. This past season, she returned to the Vlaamse Opera as Madame Lidoine in Dialogues of the Carmelites.

In the United States, she has appeared with the Baltimore Opera as Leila, Seattle Opera and Connecticut Opera as Adina in L'Elisir d'Amore, Kentucky Opera as Thias, Opera Pacific as Juliette, Arizona Opera as the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, Michigan Opera Theater as Fiordiligi and Antonia, San Antonio Symphony and the Akron Symphony as Violetta, and the New Jersey State Opera and Portland Opera as Micaela.

A notable concert artist, Ms. Fortin has appeared as a featured soloist with the orchestras of Montreal, Quebec, Calgary, Edmonton, Kitchener-Waterloo, CBC Vancouver Symphony, Orchestra Metropolitain, Fort Myers, and Pacific Symphony. In Europe, she has appeared at the Prague Spring Festival and on tour with Violons du Roy and appeared in Paris and Montreal as the featured singer in the “Starmania” spectacle. Last season, she returned to the Akron Symphony as Soprano Soloist in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. This season includes appearances with the Edmonton Symphony for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and the Montreal Symphony.

On radio and television, she appeared in the Canadian premiere of McCartney's "Liverpool Oratorio" on CBC Television, numerous concerts for CBC Radio, including, most notably Mozart's C-minor Mass and Lully's Amadis and a program of contemporary music. She has recorded an album for CBC Records with tenor Richard Margison entitled "Great Romantic Duets of French Opera," a Christmas recording entitled "Noel" with the Quebec Symphony Orchestra for Analekta Records, a recital disc entitled "Lyne Fortin Live", also for Analekta, and a recording of Mozart arias with L’Orchestre Metropolitain for Analekta..

Lyne Fortin was a winner of the Pavarotti International Vocal Competition in 1988, a special prize at the CBC National Competition for Young Performers in 1986, Pauline Donalda Award, Jean Lallemand Award Special Prize for Interpretation by the Montreal Symphony in 1985, First Prize and Grand Prize in the C.I.B.C. National Competition Festival of Music, Concourse de musique de Quebec, and Commemorative Medal celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Confederation of Canada. She is also the recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Cultural Affairs Department of Quebec, and the "Prix Raoul Jobin" from Opera de Quebec.