Born in Paris, Katia Ledoux later moved to Austria, where in 2008 she won First Prize in the Prima La Musica competition. In 2009, she was admitted to the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, later studying at the Kunstuniversität Graz. In 2018, she won the Press Prize in the International Vocal Competition ’s-Hertogenbosch, and, in 2019, she was a prizewinner at the 38th Belvedere Competition and the Nordfriesische Liedpreis at Husumer Liedkunst Wettbewerb.

Following her debut in 2019 as Geneviève in Pelléas et Mélisande conducted by Stéphane Denève and staged by Olivier Py, she returned to the Dutch National Opera to sing the alto solo in Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle under Andrea Battistoni.

At the Opernhaus Zürich, she was Gertrude in Ted Huffman’s production of Roméo et Juliette and Junon in Rameau’s Platée; she sang Ježibaba in Rusalka at the Oper Stuttgart. As a member of the International Opera Studio of Zurich, she sang the role of the Innkeeper in Barrie Kosky’s production of Boris Godunov. As a soloist of Volksoper Wien, she notably performed Venus in Orphée aux enfers and the third lady in Die Zauberflöte.

Ledoux created the role of Proserpine in the world premiere of Manfred Trojahn’s Eurydice – Die Liebenden, blind directed by Pierre Audi at the Opera Forward Festival and Makuba in Neo Muyanga’s How Anansi Freed the Stories of the World for Dutch National Opera.

Photo (c) Wolf-Dieter Grabner