Ariane Cossette SOPRANO

Voice 2025

Competitors 2025

 

Semifinalist

Recently graduated from the Canadian Opera Company’s prestigious Ensemble Studio, Ariane Cossette holds degrees from the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal and l’Université de Montréal.

Ariane’s roles for the Canadian Opera Company include Marguerite in Faust , Norina in Don Pasquale , Pepik and Woodpecker in The Cunning Little Vixen  and Frasquita in Carmen. As a concert soloist, Ariane made her debut in France during the Choeurs Éternels concerts in 2018 under the baton of Andrei Feher, and returned in 2019, this time alongside maestro Aldo Salvagno. In recent years, Ariane Cossette has performed with many orchestras in eastern Canada and participated in the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie in 2024. This summer, she joins the Merola Opera Program in San Francisco.  

: Esther Gonthier

 

Principal Teachers

• Adrienne Savoie
• Wendy Nielsen 

Major Competitions  

• 1st prize, National Capital Opera Competition, 2023
• 2nd prize, Christina and Louis Quilico Awards, 2023 

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PROGRAMME

FIRST ROUND: ARIA 

JULES MASSENET De cet affreux combat… Pleurez mes yeux
(Le Cid)

ANDRÉ PREVIN I Want Magic
(A Streetcar Named Desire)

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Oh smania! Oh furie!… D’Oreste, d’Aiace
(Idomeneo)

 

FIRST ROUND: ART SONG 

HENRI DUPARC Phydilé

SERGEI RACHMANINOV Son
(Chest’ romansov, op. 38)

RICHARD STRAUSS Cäcilie
(Vier Lieder, op. 27)

 

SEMIFINAL 

HECTOR BERLIOZ L’île inconnue 
(Les nuits d’été)

FELIX MENDELSSOHN Hear ye, Israel 
(Elijah)

JOHANN STRAUSS II Klänge der Heimat 
(Die Fledermaus)

 

 

The presence of Ariane Cossette in Montreal is generously sponsored by Sarah Edery.

 

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