Born in Belgium, Anne-Catherine Gillet began her career at a very young age in the Ensemble of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège.
She sang her first principal roles at the Capitole de Toulouse, then at the most prestigious international houses including Opéra de Lausanne, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Opernhaus Zurich, La Monnaie in Brussels, Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Opéra National de Paris and Opéra National de Bordeaux.
Recently she was Hero (Béatrice et Bénédict) in Brussels and at the Glyndebourne Festival; Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Blanche (Les Dialogues des Carmélites) and Norina (Don Pasquale) in Brussels and Québec; Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande) in Oviedo and in Strasbourg; Angèle (Le Domino noir) in Liège and at the Opéra Comique in Paris; Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) in Marseille; Suzanne (Madame Favart) and Jacqueline (Fortunio) at the Opéra Comique and in Nancy; Marguerite (Faust) in Liège, Cologne and Québec; Servilia (La clemenza di Tito) in Barcelona; Clairette (La Fille de Madame Angot) at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris; Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) in Toulouse; Micaëla (Carmen) in Luxembourg; Blanche (Les Dialogues des Carmélites), Point d’Orgue and La Voix humaine in Bordeaux; and Gabrielle (La Vie Parisienne) in Liège and Toulouse.
Photo (c) Fabrice Hauwel