Open this photo in gallery Jean-Paul Jeannotte in 1961. André Le Coz/ RADIO-CANADAWhen the renowned French-Canadian tenor Jean-Paul Jeannotte declared his retirement from the concert stage at the age of 40, at the peak of his popularity, he knew what he was doing.... ’ than ‘Why won’t he stop singing?... It came a decade later, in 1979, when he was asked to be the first general and artistic director of the newly created Opéra de Montréal....