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Avery Amereau

Mezzo-soprano
Contralto

  • Since making her professional debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 2016 as the Madrigal Singer in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, Avery Amereau has sung at numerous internationally acclaimed opera houses, including the Bayerische Staatsoper, Santa Fe Opera, Seattle Opera, Opéra de Lyon, Grand Théâtre de Geneve, English National Opera, along with the Glyndebourne and Salzburg Festivals.

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  • The 2024/25 season sees Amereau return to the Bayerische Staatsoper, where she will make her role debuts as Zerlina Don Giovanni and Leda Die Liebe der Danae and returns to the roles of Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro, Amando Le Grand Macabre, Dorabella Così fan tutte and Third Lady Die Zauberflöte. Elsewhere, Amereau makes her house debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Olga Eugene Onegin.


    On the concert platform, Amereau performs Scenes from Faust with Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Daniel Harding), Mozart Requiem with Boston Symphony Orchestra (Dima Slobodeniouk), Mahler Symphony No. 2 with Swedish Radio Orchestra (Daniel Harding), Mozart Requiem with Kansas City Symphony (Bernard Labadie), Bruckner Mass No. 1 with NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra (Ingo Metzmacher), Elgar Sea Pictures with Cleveland Orchestra (Daniel Harding) and Handel Messiah with Boston Baroque.


    Last season saw Amereau join the guest ensemble at the Bayerische Staatsoper making her role debut as Amanda Le Grand Macabre conducted by Kent Nagano. Amereau made her professional role debut as the title role in Carmen with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, joined Collegium 1704 for a European tour of Handel Messiah (Václav Luks) and returned to English National Opera to reprise the role of Serena Joy The Handmaid’s Tale.


    Recent operatic engagements have included her house and role debut as Dorabella Così fan tutte for the Bayerische Staatsoper (Vladimir Jurowski), Olga Eugene Onegin for Santa Fe Opera, Bradamante Alcina for Hannover Staatsoper, Eduige Rodelinda at Opera de Lille and Opera de Lyon, Dryad Ariadne for Glyndebourne, Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro for Grand Théâtre de Genève, Ursula Béatrice et Bénedict for Seattle Opera as well as Page Salome for the Salzburg Festival.


    In high demand on the concert platform, highlights include her role debut as Marguerite Damnation de Faust with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra (Federico Cortese), Mozart Requiem with the Cleveland Orchestra (Franz Welser-Möst) and Barcelona Symphony (Trevor Pinnock), Bach Christmas Oratorio with Montréal Symphony Orchestra (Leonardo García Alarcón), The Listeners by Caroline Shaw with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (Richard Egarr), Das Paradies und die Peri with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Daniel Harding) and her Tanglewood Festival debut singing Berlioz’s Les Nuits D’été with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (Dmitri Slobodeniouk). A regular interpreter of Messiah, recent performances have included the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Bernard Labadie), the Handel & Haydn Society (Václav Luks) and for St Paul Chamber Orchestra (Paul McCreesh).


    As a recording artist, Amereau appears as the Sorceress Dido and Aeneas with La Nuova Musica for the Pentatone label and in Caroline Shaw’s The Listeners with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra on their own label. Avery’s first solo album of Handel arias with Nicholas McGegan and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, selected as Editor’s Choice in Gramophone Magazine, was released in 2020 to huge critical acclaim.


    In seasons ahead Amereau will make her Chicago Symphony Orchestra debut.

    2024/25 season / 528 words. Not to be altered without permission.

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'Amereau has a beautifully dark and sensuous contralto, which she used convincingly to capture her humiliation and pain, with an emotionally compelling performance.'

Opera Wire, April 2022

'...the rapidly rising contralto Avery Amereau delivered a sumptuous, often rapturous traversal through the six songs. Her rich, deep-toned range rang out over the orchestra — a refined, ravishing performance.'

The Berkshire Eagle, July 2023

'Teasing, brilliant acting, comedic and yet with a slight hint of melancholy from Avery Amereau 's Cherubino . Not to forget the erotic charisma. Charming.'

IOCO, November 2023

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Natasha Worsley
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LeOui van Rensburg
Artist Manager
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Chansonnier

HK Gruber

Counter-tenor

Tim Mead

Harpsichord

Richard Egarr

Piano accompanist

Roger Vignoles

Saxophone

Jess Gillam

Contralto

Avery Amereau