Virginie Verrez

VIRGINIE VERREZ Mezzo-Soprano With a voice described as "silvery [and] dark-hued" and " attractive throughout her range" by the New York Times, French Mezzo-Soprano Virginie Verrez is a rising star on the opera stage. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Virginie was a winner of the 2015 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and a member of the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program 2015-17. In the 2019/20 season, Virginie will make her role debut as the title role Carmen with Welsh National Opera, touring nationally around the UK. She will also make a further debut as Prince Charmant Cendrillon at Stadttheater Klagenfurt. Concert highlights include her Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin debut in Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9, Poème de l'amour et de la m