2024/25
Season
French-American soprano Véronique Filloux has been praised as "showstopping... she used her dazzling coloratura and lithe stage presence to piquant comedic effect" (Opera News). She began her 2024/25 season as a guest artist with Central City Opera, singing Mrs. Fiorentino (Street Scene), and she went on to return to Livermore Valley Opera in her role debut as Marie (La fille du régiment) and to Pacific Opera Project as the leading lady in Cagnoni's rarely-performed Don Bucefalo. In 2025, she makes her role and house debuts with Eugene Opera as Gilda (Rigoletto) and Opera Montana as Gretel (Hansel and Gretel). The summer holds a return to Central City Opera as Lady Larken (Once Upon a Mattress) and a debut with Haymarket Opera as Dafne in Peri's Euridice. She is a grant winner of the 2023 Arizona Commission for the Arts, a Georgia District Winner of the 2023 Laffont Competition, a 2024 Jensen Competition finalist, and the 1st Place Winner of the 2024 Dorothy Lincoln-Smith Vocal Competition.
In the 2023/24 season, Véronique enjoyed house and role debuts with Wolf Trap Opera as Iris (Semele) and in recital, Berkshire Opera Festival as Musetta (La bohème), Livermore Valley Opera as Curley's Wife (Of Mice and Men), and Annapolis Opera as Adina (L'elisir d'amore). Following the success of her company debut as Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos), she returned twice to Arizona Opera as Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia) and Zerlina (Don Giovanni). On the concert stage, she debuted with Alabama Symphony Orchestra as the soprano soloist in Handel's Messiah and returned to the University of Maryland, singing Baroque arias and duets in concert with John Holiday and the UMD Symphony Orchestra. She was thrilled to join The Metropolitan Opera as Helen in the workshop of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Mason Bates/Gene Scheer).
“MELISMATIC DISPLAYS OF VOCAL DEXTERITY AND POWER”
Véronique Filloux is the soprano playing Semele, a role that fits her youth and voice type very well. She displays the naivete, playfulness, and emerging self-determination of her character... Her coloratura and melismatic displays of vocal dexterity and power were impressive enough, but it was in the gentlest aria "O Sleep, why dost thou leave me" that the beauty of her voice comes to the fore."
O P E R A G E N E | Semele
"Precision AND a modicum of pathos ”
"There is just the one female presence in this otherwise all-male undertaking, the Eve-like temptress known only as Curley’s Wife. We can pin the sexual politics on Steinbeck, while noting that Floyd gives this lonesome, unhappy woman a voice of her own, and that soprano Véronique Filloux dispatched her assignment with precision and a modicum of pathos."
S A N F R A N C I S C O C H R O N I C L E | Of Mice and Men
