“Michèle Losier is Canadian and is one of the revelations of the week […] The voice is magnificent, superbly colored in all the registers […]: an authentic artist gifted with a subtle and rich musicality and a stupendous stage presence.” (Le Soir)
"Michèle Losier as Cherubino, filed what must be counted among the best performances ever from a member of the Atelier apprentice program. A precise singer who seemed to libertate all the exuberance of Non so più [...] Losier could also act confidently in Act II as a male dressed as a female. Which is probaby not so easy for a female! At any rate, there was a trail of stardust following this mezzo-soprano, who is an artist to watch, and to hear." (Montreal Gazette)
Mezzo-soprano Michèle Losier was a Laureate at the 2008 at the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Competition where she was hailed as nothing less than a “revelation” (Le Soir) and at the Metropolitan Opera Auditions in 2005 where the New York Times acclaimed “the Canadian mezzo-soprano, sounded career-ready, with a poised technique and good control of herself onstage”.
She made her debut at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in the fall of 2007, performing the role of Diane in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride, appearing alongside Susan Graham and Plácido Domingo, having first sung the role at the Seattle Opera in October 2007.
Future engagements bring Miss Losier to the Boston Lyric Opera for her debut as Niklause in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, the Madison Opera as Dorabella, and the Seattle Opera as Wellgunde and Grimgerde in Wagner's Ring. She will perform with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra for Beethoven's 9th Symphony and the Charlemagne Orchestra for Mahler's Kindertotenlieder.
She will then sing Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro at the Washington National Opera and the San Francisco Opera, Dorabella at the Arizona Opera, and Sesto in La clemenza di Tito at the Seattle Opera. She will also make her debut at the Vancouver Opera and the Dallas Opera, and will give several concerts in Canada, Europe and the United States.
Following her success at the Queen Elisabeth Competition, Michèle recorded the Chansons of Henri Duparc with Pianist Daniel Blumenthal. The CD will be released in fall 2008 on the Fuga Libera label, and a recital tour throughout Europe under the auspices of Fortis Bank will follow.
Michèle’s recents projects have included Suzuki at the Pacific Opera in Victoria and concerts at the May Festival in Cincinnati, where she was heard in Berlioz' L'Enfance du Christ, as Amor in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice under the baton of James Conlon, and in Bach's Cantata No. 182 with Robert Porco. She performed in Mozart's Requiem with Les Violons du Roy on their U.S. tour, as Mercedes in Carmen, as Mrs. Grose in The Turn of the Screw and as Lazuli in an acclaimed production of L'Etoile at the Opéra de Montréal.
An alumnus of McGill University, Michèle began her operatic career as a member of the San Francisco Opera's Merola Program, the Juilliard Opera Center, and from 2003 to 2005 was a member of the Opéra de Montréal's Atelier Lyrique where she attracted attention with her debut as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, for which Montreal's daily La Presse reported "we are astounded by Michele Losier's Cherubino", and the English daily, The Gazette followed with "there was a trail of stardust following this mezzo soprano, who is an artist to watch and to hear." Her first European appearances were in Avignon in 2002 as Dorabella and in Nancy in 2003 as Zerlina in Don Giovanni.
In addition to her operatic repertoire, which also includes Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Concepcion (L’Heure Espagnole), L'Enfant (L’Enfant et les Sortilèges), Stefano (Roméo et Juliette), Siebel (Faust), Komponist (Ariadne auf Naxos), Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) and Dido (Dido and Aeneas), she has distinguished herself in masses and requiems by Rossini, Vivaldi, Handel, Dvořák, and Bach. From early music to contemporary works, Miss Losier has performed in recitals in England, the United States, France, Italy, Belgium, as well as through the provinces of her native Canada.
Michèle Losier 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 in 2000, the Vocal Division of the Canadian Music Competition in 2001, and of the Mélodies Francaise category of the Chant de Marmande International Competition in France.
