Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur

Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur Mezzo-soprano

Biography

Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur trained at the Bordeaux Conservatory after studying at Sciences Po Bordeaux. She was a member of the Paris Opera Academy from 2019 to 2021 and participated in the Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival.

Nominated as one of the opera revelations at the Victoires de la Musique, she has sung Néris in Cherubini’s Médée at the Opéra Comique; Siegrune in Die Walküre in Brussels; Mrs Meg Page in Falstaff at the Royal Opera of Wallonia; Fenena in Nabucco at the Sanxay Festival; the title role in La Périchole in Saint-Étienne; Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana in Montpellier; Krista in The Makropulos Case in Lille; and Dara in La Montagne noire in Bordeaux. During the 2026–2027 season, she performs Métella in La Vie parisienne at the Monte-Carlo Opera, Waltraute and the Second Norn in Wagner’s Ring cycle, and Alice in Miroir de nos peines at the Paris Opera.

She also performs Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été with Insula Orchestra at the Konzerthaus Berlin and La Seine Musicale.

At the Paris Opera: L’Enfant et les Sortilèges (the Dragonfly, the Chinese Cup, Maman, 2020); The Rape of Lucretia (Lucretia, 2021); Parsifal (a Flower Maiden, a Squire, 2022); Wozzeck (Margret, 2022); Die Zauberflöte (Second Lady, 2022, 2024); Il trovatore (Ines, 2022); Falstaff (Mrs Meg Page, 2024); Die Walküre (Waltraute, 2025).

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