French mezzo-soprano Virginie Verrez is a graduate of New York’s Juilliard School. She won the 2016 Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition and was a winner of the 2015 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She was a member of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program from 2015 to 2017.

Recent concert engagements include Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette and Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Harding; La Damoiselle élue with the Orchestre National de France and Bertrand de Billy; Beethoven’s Mass in C with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and Karina Canellakis; Erika in Barber’s Vanessa with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and David Zinman; Haydn’s Nelson Mass with the Orchestre National de Lyon and Omer Meir Wellber; Shéhérazade with the Minnesota Orchestra; a Mozart Gala with Le Concert d’Astrée featuring performances in Paris and Bahrain; and Duruflé’s Requiem with the Netherlands Radio Choir.

Recent operatic highlights include Stéphano (Roméo et Juliette) and Enrichetta (I puritani) for the Metropolitan Opera; the title role in Carmen for Welsh National Opera; Erika (Vanessa) at the Glyndebourne Festival; Suzuki (Madama Butterfly) for the Opéra National de Bordeaux and Iphigénie (Iphigénie en Tauride) for the Opéra National de Lorraine.

Verrez is a former member of the ensemble of the Wiener Staatsoper, where her roles included Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Lola (Cavalleria rusticana), Idamante (Idomeneo), Tisbe (La Cenerentola) and Meg Page (Falstaff).

Photo (c) Dario Acosta