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ABOUT

"SUPERB

vocal talents, versatility, dramatic ability and commanding stage presence."

ONSTAGE PITTSBURGH

Biography.

Praised for her “expressive, lovingly shaded soprano” and "dazzling coloratura and lithe stage presence [used] to piquant comedic effect" (Opera News), French-American soprano Véronique Filloux's exciting 2026/27 season includes returns to Arizona Opera as Mabel (The Pirates of Penzance) and Alabama Symphony Orchestra for Messiah. She also makes role and company debuts with Opera Parallèle as Sandrine/Mercédès (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) and Chicago Opera Theater as Daughter in Glass' The Juniper Tree. Véronique is thrilled to join The Metropolitan Opera to cover Jano in Jenůfa.

Véronique began the 2025/26 season jumping in to cover the title role in Handel's Semele with The Atlanta Opera, performing it in full for the orchestra dress. The summer also held a return to Central City Opera in concert and as Lady Larken (Once Upon a Mattress). In the fall, she returned to Eugene Opera in her role debut as Mabel (The Pirates of Penzance) and went on to debut with Haymarket Opera as Proserpina in Peri's Euridice and Fort Worth Opera as the titular Belle in Glass' La belle et la bête. She was a soloist in Handel's Messiah in her debut with New Choral Society and Carmina Burana with Alabama Symphony Orchestra and Alabama Ballet. She was delighted to reprise a favorite role, Sœur Constance in Dialogues des Carmélites, with New Orleans Opera.​ Véronique also competed in the second phase of the prestigious Tenor Viñas Competition in Barcelona, Spain.

Véronique enjoyed an exciting and varied 2024/25 season. She spent her summer as Greta Fiorentino (Street Scene) with Central City Opera, then went on to sing the titular heroine of Donizetti's La fille du régiment in a return to Livermore Valley Opera and Rosa, the bel canto heroine, in Cagnoni's rarely-perfomed Don Bucefalo with Pacific Opera Project. She then made two anticipated role and company debuts: first as Gilda (Rigoletto) with Eugene Opera and then as Gretel (Hansel and Gretel) with Opera Montana

 

Véronique was delighted to spend the 2023 summer with Wolf Trap Opera as a Filene Artist, singing Iris (Semele), joining Steve Blier in a recital entitled "Night and Day, USA," and giving a Parlor Recital. She went on to a 2023/24 season of entirely role debuts, with engagements including debuts with 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). She made two returns to Arizona Opera, singing Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia) and Zerlina (Don Giovanni). On the concert stage, Véronique debuted with Alabama Symphony Orchestra as the soprano soloist in Handel's Messiah and performed in concert with countertenor John Holiday and the University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra. She was thrilled to join The Metropolitan Opera as Helen in the workshop of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Mason Bates and Gene Scheer.

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Véronique began the 2022/23 season by winning First Prize in the Zenith Opera Competition and debuting with Washington Concert Opera as Miss Ellen (Lakmé). While in residence with Arizona Opera, she made several exciting role debuts including Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos), Liesl (The Sound of Music), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte),  and Agatha (Frankenstein, workshop). She also joined Pacific Opera Project as Martesia in the US premiere of Vivaldi's Ercole su'l TermodonteAs a Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artist from 2020-22, Véronique's roles included Despina (Così fan tutte), Chan Parker (Charlie Parker’s Yardbird), Papagena (The Magic Flute), The Girl/Luna (The Rose Elf, staged premiere), Frasquita (Carmen), and the title role in Handel’s Semele. She also performed recitals with Salt Marsh Opera and Musicians Club of Women and was scheduled to debut with the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Mass in C (Covid-19). Véronique spent two summers with Des Moines Metro Opera, singing L'Amour/covering La Folie in Rameau's Platée and singing Peaseblossom/covering Tytania in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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"completely charming... a beautiful, resonant sound."

"Soprano Véronique Filloux was completely charming in the title role. Her Marie has a lot of sass and a beautiful, resonant sound. Her French diction was extremely clear as well."

OPERA TATTLER

In competition, Véronique has won First Place in the Zenith Opera Competition, the Dorothy Lincoln-Smith NSAL Competition, the Mildred Miller Vocal Competition, the Musical Merit Foundation Vocal Competition, and the Camille Coloratura Awards. She is the Daniel Schwartz Memorial Award winner in the Young Patronesses of the Opera Competition, 3rd Place winner and Audience Favorite in the Annapolis Opera Competition, the Handel Award winner in the Orpheus Vocal Competition, Lynne Harvey Foundation/Virginia Cooper Maier Award winner in the Musicians Club of Women Competition, a Pittsburgh and Georgia District Winner of the Laffont Competition, a winner of the Arizona Commission on the Arts grant program, and a three-time finalist in the Jensen Foundation Vocal Competition.

In past seasons, Véronique was seen as Shepherdess (Venus and Adonis) with Opera Lafayette, with whom she made her Kennedy Center debut as Tigrane (Radamisto) the previous season. She performed solos in Carmina Burana, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, and Messiah with organizations including the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra and Bach Collegium San Diego, and she joined Music of the Baroque as Pales in Bach’s “Hunt Cantata” and as Soprano II Soloist in Handel's Dixit Dominus, as well as in excerpts from The Fairy Queen and Hippolyte et Aricie. Prior to Covid-19, she was scheduled sing Clorinda (La Cenerentola) with Salt Marsh Opera and Jeannie in Opera Lafayette’s modern premiere of Philidor’s The Blacksmith. Other highlights include covering Brigitta (Iolanta) and Doodle (The Scarlet Ibis) with Chicago Opera Theater


Spending two summers with Central City Opera, Véronique sang Papagena (Die Zauberflöte) and the title role in Debussy’s La damoiselle élue, earning the 2019 Opera Guild Artist Sponsorship and winning both the company’s 2018 Young Artist Award and 2019 Apprentice Artist Award. Additional past roles include Servilia (La clemenza di Tito), Lucia (The Rape of Lucretia), Amore (Orfeo ed Euridice), Olympia (Les contes d'Hoffmann), Silberklang (The Impresario), Adele (Die Fledermaus), Mae Jones (Street Scene), Lily (The Young King, world premiere), and Isifile in Cavalli's Il Giasone. Additional concert performances include Poulenc's Gloria, Gordon/Lang/Wolfe's lost objects, Whitacre’s Goodnight Moon, and several Bach cantatas. Véronique earned her MM from the Maryland Opera Studio, winning UMD's Pomeroy Prize in 17th & 18th Century Music, and earned her BM at Northwestern University, magna cum laude, with degrees in Voice & Opera Performance and Operatic Languages & Poetry, having completed the prestigious Creative Writing Sequence in Poetry.

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Filloux "thrilled with high-flying exploits"

"Soprano Véronique Filloux, already familiar to local audiences, thrilled with high-flying exploits as Iris, costumed here as a sort of goofy Willy Wonka figure (costume design by Rooth Varland)."

WASHINGTON CLASSICAL REVIEW

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