Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur Mezzo-soprano

Biography

Trained at the Académie de l'Opéra national de Paris

Born in Normandy, Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur trained with Maryse Castets at the Bordeaux Conservatoire after studying at Sciences Po Bordeaux. She joins the Académie de l'Opéra national de Paris from 2019 to 2021. She takes part in the Salzburg Festival's Young Singers Project as the Second Lady (Cherubini's Médée) with the Wiener Philharmoniker, and performs in recital with the Mozarteum Orchestra.

Named one of the revelations of lyric artists at the Victoires de la Musique awards, she sings Geneviève (Pelléas et Mélisande) and Ethel (Les Éclairs) at the Opéra Comique, the Third Lady (The Magic Flute) at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, and Mère Marie (Dialogues des carmélites) at the Opéra national de Bordeaux. In 2023-2024, she is Siegrune (La Walkyrie) at La Monnaie de Bruxelles, Mrs Meg Page (Falstaff) at the Opéra royal de Wallonie, Marguerite (Le Retour de Virginie) with the Orchestre national de Lyon.

This season, Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur is the viola in Mahler's Second Symphony with the Orchestre de Paris conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, and in Romeo Castellucci's staging of Néris (Cherubini's Médée) at the Opéra Comique and Opéra de Montpellier. She also played the viola in Israël en Egypte at the Haendel Festspiele Halle, conducted by Hervé Niquet, and recorded Massenet melodies for the Bru Zane label.

At the Opéra national de Paris: L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (La Libellule, La Tasse chinoise, Maman), 2020; Le Viol de Lucrèce (Lucretia), 2021; Parsifal (Ein Klingsors Zaubermadchen, Ein Knappe), 2022; Wozzeck (Margret), 2022; The Magic Flute (Second Lady), 2022; Le Trouvère (Ines), 2022; Falstaff (Mrs Meg Page), 2024