Stéphanie Pothier

Mezzo-soprano, Canada

With her voice both dark and radiant, mezzo-soprano Stéphanie Pothier is at home in a widely varied repertoire, from Baroque coloratura and bel canto to new works as well as the full spectrum of the romantic repertoire. She combines her vocal strength with keen theatrical skills to bring concert music and opera to life.

She appears as guest soloist with numerous Canadian companies and ensembles such as Opéra de Montréal, Opéra de Québec, Orchestre Métropolitain, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Orchestre de chambre McGill, Chants Libres, I Musici…

Recent performances include Wagner’s Parsifal and Bruckner’s Mass no 3 in f-minor performed under Yannick Nézet-Séguin at the Festival de Lanaudière, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and Kent Nagano, Mozart’s, Verdi’s and Duruflé’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky, Stravinsky’s Les Noces, Haendel’s Messiah and numerous Bach cantatas and oratorios.

Very active on the contemporary music scene, she premiered Vera Lynn in Julien Bilodeau’s Another Brick in The Wall, at Opéra de Montréal and Fée Tourterelle in Gilles Tremblay’s L’eau qui danse… (Chants Libres). She was Lily in the Canadian Premiere of Su Lian Tan’s Lotus Lives (Magnitude 6).

Motivated by the crossing of art forms, Stéphanie founded Projet ClairObscur in 2019 to art films and multimedia recital incorporating her dual practices of photography and classical singing.
A Rotary International scholarship holder, she graduated from the Opera School of Stuttgart’s Hochschule fuer Musik (Germany) as well as from the Montreal Conservatory of Music in harpsichord. She has benefitted from the teaching of Huguette Tourangeau, Gabrielle Lavigne and Francisco Araiza.

Stéphanie Pothier sings under the baton of reputed conductors such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Andrew Megill, Alain Trudel, Stephen Layton, Lorraine Vaillancourt and Kent Nagano.

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