Biography
Critically acclaimed mezzo-soprano Michèle Losier distinguishes herself on international opera stages with her rich voice, masterful musicality and stupendous stage presence. Celebrated as a "vocal treasure", and for her "luminous" and "deeply moving" singing, she appears in the world's greatest opera houses.
Next season, Michèle will be singing her beloved Octavian at the Grand Théâtre de Genève in a new production staged by Christopher Walz. She will sing in Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with the Maggio Firenze orchestra and she will perform it again at the George Enescu Festival in Bucharest under the baton of Zubin Mehta. In Canada, she will sing Brahms's Alto Rhapsody in Drummondville, and give a recital of Duparc's Mélodies in Lachine. She will travel to the Hamburg State Opera and sing another one of her signature roles, Sesto.
Recent successes include Komponist (Ariadne auf Naxos) at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier at Berlin State Opera, Carmen, Nicklausse (Les Contes d'Hoffmann) and Siébel (Faust) at Vienna State Opera, Sesto (La Clemenza di Tito) at Opéra national de Paris, Nicklausse at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. She sang Ascagne in the Dmitri Tcherniakov production of Les Troyens with Philippe Jordan at Bastille, Judith in Bluebeard's Castle with Yannick Nézet-Séguin in Montreal, Jane Seymour in Anna Bolena in Bordeaux, and Idamante in Mozart's Idomeneo at Teatro alla Scalla. She was also acclaimed at Bastille in the Terry Gilliam's production of Benvenuto Cellini conducted by Philippe Jordan, and in the Così fan tutte staged by choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker at Palais Garnier.
The artist’s achievement at the Metropolitan Opera Auditions in 2005 led to her house debut in 2007 as Diane (Iphigénie en Tauride), under the baton of Louis Langrée, alongside Susan Graham and Placido Domingo. This was followed by engagements at some of the world’s leading opera houses, such as Siébel at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden and at the Metropolitan Opera, Ascanio (Benvenuto Cellini) at De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, Sesto at the Vienna State Opera and at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, Prince Charmant (Cendrillon) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Charlotte (Werther) at Opera Australia, Dorabella in Mozart’s Così fan tutte at the Opéra national de Paris, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Salzburg Festival and as Carmen at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen.
Furthermore she sang at opera houses and festivals like Opéra-Comique, Edinburgh International Festival, Opéra de Lyon, Opéra de Montréal, San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Opéra d’Avignon, Opéra Lille, Festival International de Lanaudière and has worked with Orchestras like Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Les Musiciens du Louvre, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra, Colombus Symphony Orchestra, Pygmalion Ensemble. Her concert repertoire includes Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ, Les nuits d’été, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Missa solemnis, Ravel’s Shéhérazade, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, Kindertotenlieder, Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle, Mozart’s Requiem and others.
Michèle Losier has worked with conductors such as Louis Langrée, Patrick Fourmilier, Emmanuel Plasson, Marc Minkowski, Jérémie Rhorer, Stephane Denève, Kent Nagano, Emmanuelle Haïm, Sir Andrew Davis, François-Xavier Bilger, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Nicola Luisetti, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Colin Davis, Evelino Pido, Placido Domingo, James Conlon and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, just to name a few.
Canadian mezzo soprano Michèle Losier is alumni of McGill University and was also a member of the San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, the Opéra de Montréal’s Atelier Lyrique and the Juilliard Opera Center in New York. She has been the recipient of a number of grants and scholarships, including those from the Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation, the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Sylva-Gelber Foundation. She is a First Prize winner at the Journées de la Musique Française, the Vocal Division of the Canadian Music Competition, and of the Mélodie Française category of the Chant de Marmande International Competition in France. Her success at the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Competition in 2008 won her a recital tour of Europe and a recording of the Chansons of Henri Duparc with pianist Daniel Blumenthal, released in April 2009 on the Fuga Libera label. Since then she can be heard on numerous other CD and DVD productions.
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