VOICE 2018 Edition – ARIA DIVISION
Mezzo-soprano
Biography 2018: Originally from Quebec, mezzo-soprano Marie-Andrée Mathieu is a ten-time winner of the Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques scholarship. She won First prize in Quebec’s Concours d’Art Lyrique de la Relève Musicale.
Notably, she played Nicklausse in Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann with the Rimouski Opera. She became known in her role as Orpheus in Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice for the Relève Musicale de Québec and in the role of Junon in Charpentier’s Actéon with the Compagnie Baroque Mont-Royal in Montréal. She has also sung in Duruflé’s Requiem at the Notre-Dame de Québec Cathedral Basilica, with Airat Ichmouratov conducting.
She graduated with distinction with a Master’s degree in music performance from Laval University. She studied with soprano Patricia Fournier, with whom she continues to train.
Marie-Andrée Mathieu is generously sponsored by Marco Filauro.
ARIA
FIRST ROUND
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Nobles seigneurs, salut! (Les Huguenots)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Parto, ma tu ben mio (La clemenza di Tito)
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Amour, viens rendre à mon âme (Orphée et Eurydice)
Official pianist: Esther Gonthier
SEMIFINAL
Johann Sebastian Bach
Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris (Messe in h-Moll)
Charles Gounod
Que fais-tu, blanche tourterelle (Roméo et Juliette)
Gioachino Rossini
Una voce poco fa (Il barbiere di Siviglia)
FINAL
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Parto, ma tu ben mio (La clemenza di Tito)
Alban Berg
Sieben frühe Lieder
Die Nachtigall
Traumgekrönt
Im Zimmer
Gioachino Rossini
Nacqui all’affanno e al pianto … Non più mesta (La Cenerentola)
