Canadian mezzosoprano Michèle Losier is celebrated by both audiences and press worldwide for her vocally and dramatically captivating role portrayals.

She will open her 2024/25 season in the title role of Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride in a new production by Rafael Villalobos at the Opera Vlaanderen in Antwerp; at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, she will portray Mére Marie in Robert Carsen’s new production of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites under Riccardo Minasi. La voix humaine under Dmitri Jurowski at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest will be her second Poulenc-opera in the season. With the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal under Rafael Payere, she will sing Dorabella in a semi-staged Così fan tutte directed by Thomas Hampson. At the Müpa in Budapest and at the Musikverein in Vienna, she will be heard as Eros in Thomas’ Psyché, together with the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra under György Vasgegyi. On the concert stage, she will also perform Mahler’s 3rd Symphony on four separate occasions: with the Brussels Philharmonic under Kazushi Ono, with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, both times under Daniele Gatti, and with the Orchestre national de Metz Grand Est under David Reiland.

In 2023/24, she sang celebrated new productions as Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier) in a staging by Christoph Walz at the Grand Théâtre de Geneve and as Sesto (La clemenza di Tito) under the baton of Ádám Fischer at Hamburg State Opera, and returned to the Vienna State Opera, also in the role of Octavian. On the concert stage, she sang Mahler’s 2^nd Symphony with the Würth Philharmonic under Claudio Vendelli, as well as Brahm’s Alto Rhapsody in her native Québec.

In the 2022/23 season, Michèle Losier could be heard as Octavian at Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, amongst others. She returned to the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino with Mahler‘s Rückert-Lieder under the baton of Ingo Metzmacher and Mahler’s 2nd Symphony under Zubin Mehta, and sang Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI in Turin and Elias at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, both under the baton of Daniele Gatti.

Additional highlights include Komponist (Ariadne auf Naxos) at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier at Berlin State Opera, Carmen, Octavian, Siébel (Faust) at Vienna State Opera, Sesto (La clemenza di Tito) at Opéra national de Paris, Nicklausse in Les contes d’Hoffmann at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and at La Monnaie in Brussels. She sang Ascagne in the Dmitri Tcherniakov production of Les Troyens with Philippe Jordan at Opéra Bastille, Judith in Bluebeard’s Castle with Yannick Nézet-Séguin in Montreal, Charlotte (Werther) and Jane Seymour in Anna Bolena at Opéra national de Bordeaux and Idamante in Mozart’s Idomeneo at the Teatro alla Scalla. She was also acclaimed at Paris Opera in the Terry Gilliam’s production of Benvenuto Cellini conducted by Philippe Jordan, and Dorabella 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, e.g. as Siébel at the Royal Opera House in London 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 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 and Festival International de Lanaudière, and has worked with Orchestras such as Les Musiciens du Louvre, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra, Colombus Symphony Orchestra and 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.

The Montréal-native is alumna of McGill University and was also a member of Merola Opera Program in San Francisco, 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.