Biography
Recent winner of the 1st Prize in Opera at the International Voice Competition in Marmande, Canadian coloratura soprano Marie-Eve Munger has been hailed for her “crystalline timbre, soaring range and moving performances.”
Engagements this season include a return to the Opéra-Théâtre de Metz as Nannetta in Falstaff, Ilia in Idomeneo with the Florentine Opera, Gilda in Rigoletto with Saratoga Opera, Mozart’s Il Sogno di Scipione with Gotham Chamber Opera in New York City, the Québec Opera Gala, along with numerous recitals and recordings in Canada and United States. She makes her company debut at the Kennedy Center in Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor and presents a solo recital at Trinity Wall Street’s Concerts at One.
Upcoming engagement include Ophélie in Hamlet with Minnesota Opera, Vierte Magde in Elektra at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, company for which she will also be the Fire/Nightingale in L’Enfant et les Sortilèges on tour in Morocco, and Eritea with Gotham Chamber Opera in Cavalli’s Eliogabalo. Greatly noticed at the world premiere, she will also return as the coloratura in the new opera The Second Woman at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris and on tour in Europe.
Marie-Eve Munger made her company debut with the Opéra-Théâtre de Metz in France with the role of Ophélie in Thomas’ Hamlet, participated in the world premiere of Pastorale at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris in 2009 and then returned as the lead in Villa Lobos’Magdalena in 2010. Recent engagements include lead roles with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Opéra de Tours, Charlotte Symphony, Glimmerglass Opera, Saguenay Orchestra, Banff Centre for the Arts, McGill Chamber Orchestra, Société d’art lyrique du Royaume, Mondial Choral Festival, to name a few.
Awarded the Wirth Scholarship, she earned the degree of Master of Music in performance at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Montreal in 2007. Marie-Eve Munger thanks the Fondation des Jeunesses Musicales du Canada for their support.
