French soprano Manon Strauss Evrard is one of the most promising young artists of today.  Her professional operatic debut was as Violetta at the Prague State Opera in their 2006 new production of La Traviata.  Miss Strauss Evrard made her Asian debut as Juliette in Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette with the Hong Kong Opera in 2007.  In the 2010-2011 season she will debut the role of Rossini’s Semiramide with De Vlaamse Oper and she make her Rossini Opera Festival debut as Clorinda in La Cenerentola and the role of Teti in Le nozze di Teti et di Peleo. She will also return to the Metropolitan Opera for Capriccio. Other future engagements include Rossini’s Petite Mese Solennelle in Rome with Paolo Olmi, concerts in Singapore with Jose Carreras and Madame Folleville in Il Viaggio a Rheims with De Vlaamse Oper. This past season she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Lulu and she performed the role of Marie in La Fille du Regiment at the Virginia Opera Association.

Last summer, Miss Strauss Evrard performed the role of Contessa in Il Viaggio a Rheims as a young artist at the Rossini Opera Festival and was seen in concerts throughout Pesaro.   In December 2008, she sang a gala holiday concert in Nancy under Maestro Paolo Olmi and was seen last fall as the soprano soloist in Rossini’s Stabat Mater in Rome also under Maestro Olmi, which was televised throughout Italy.  She concluded her 2008-2009 season performing the role of Rosina in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Virginia Opera Association. 

She opened the 2007-2008 season as Musetta in Puccini’s La Bohème at the Den Norske Opera in Oslo, followed by the four heroines in Les Contes d’Hoffmann and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Virginia Opera Association.
During her three -year residency with the prestigious Academy of Vocal Arts, Philadelphia, Miss Strauss Evrard performed the roles of Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto, Anita in Massenet’s La Navarraise, Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Musetta in Puccini’s La Boheme, and the title role in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta. In spring 2007 she debuted as Massenet’s Manon in a new production at the Academy of Vocal Arts.

Miss Strauss Evrard’s professional engagements of the year 2005 include her performance of Elvira’s mad scene from I Puritani at the Gala de L’Opéra de Montréal, and appearances in a Belcanto Concert at the Miskolc Festival in Hungary under the baton of Joseph Rescigno. In addition, Miss Evrard has sung Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. She ended the season as soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis at Carnegie Hall.

Miss Straus Evrard’s dramatic, and yet agile voice combined with her outstanding musicality enables her to tackle the most demanding roles in the Bel Canto repertoire. Among the roles she has been working on these past few years are the titles roles of Rossini’s Armida, and Semiramide and the heroines of Bellini’s I Purtiani, Il Pirata and La sonnambula.

A native of Nancy, Miss Strauss Evrard was the Fourth Prize recipient from the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation in 2010 and First Prize recipient in 2008, First Place Regional Winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions of 2009, First Prize Grant recipient of the Gerda Lissner Competition of 2008, and the Great Promise Award recipient for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Audition in 2006. In addition, she was the Second Place winner of the Giargiari Bel Canto Competition in 2005, a First Prize winner of the Competizione Internazionale di Canto Lirico di Rocca della Macie (Italy) in 2004, a recipient of the Opera Norske Oslo Award from the International Belvedere Competition 2005, the Encouragement Award from the Marian Anderson Competition in 2004, an Opera Index Grant Award winner, the French awards of the Gold Medal at the Conservatoire National de Region de Nancy and the Adami’s Prize of the Golden Voice Competition in 2002.

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