Véronique Filloux

Praised by Opera News for her “expressive, lovingly shaded soprano,”

“dazzling coloratura and lithe stage presence [used] to piquant comedic

effect,” French American soprano Véronique Filloux’s exciting 2024-2025

season includes several role débuts: Greta Fiorentino in Street Scene at

Central City Opera; Marie in La fille du regiment at Livermore Valley Opera;

and Rosa, the leading lady in Cagnoni’s rarely performed Don Bucefalo, at

Pacific Opera Project. Véronique’s 2023-2024 season included débuts with

Berkshire Opera Festival as Musetta in La bohème, Livermore Valley Opera as

Curley's Wife in Of Mice and Men, Alabama Symphony Orchestra in Handel's Messiah, and Annapolis Opera as Adina in L'elisir d'amore. She also returned to Arizona Opera as both Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia and Zerlina in Don Giovanni and joined The Metropolitan Opera as Helen in the workshop of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Véronique spent summer 2023 as a Filene Artist at Wolf Trap Opera, singing Iris in Semele and performing two recitals.

In the 2022-2023 season, Véronique was a resident artist with Arizona Opera, making several exciting role débuts including Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, Liesl in The Sound of Music, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, and Agatha in the workshop of Frankenstein. She also joined Washington Concert Opera as Miss Ellen in Lakmé and Pacific Opera Project as Martesia in the US premiere of Vivaldi's Ercole su'l Termodonte.

In previous seasons, Véronique joined Des Moines Metro Opera for Rameau's Platée, singing L'Amour and covering La Folie, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, singing Peaseblossom and covering Tytania. She joined Pittsburgh Opera as a Resident Artist, where she sang Despina in Così fan tutte, Chan Parker in Charlie Parker’s Yardbird, Papagena in The Magic Flute, The Girl/Luna in The Rose Elf (staged premiere), Frasquita in Carmen, and the title role in Handel’s Semele.

On the competition circuit, Véronique has won First Prizes in the 2024 Dorothy Lincoln-Smith National Finals, the 2022 Zenith Opera Competition, the 2023 Dorothy Lincoln-Smith NSAL Competition of Arizona, the 2022 Mildred Miller Vocal Competition, and the 2021 Camille Coloratura Awards. She is a two-time Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition District Winner (2020 and 2023). She is proud to have earned prizes from organizations including the Orpheus Competition, Annapolis Opera Competition, Young Patronesses of the Opera/Florida Grand Opera Competition, Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the Musicians Club of Women Competition. Véronique has enjoyed several performances with Opera Lafayette, with whom she made her Kennedy Center début as Tigrane in Radamisto. In recent years, she reprised soloist roles in Carmina Burana, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, Poulenc’s Gloria, and Handel’s Messiah with organizations including the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra, Alabama Symphony Orchestra, and Bach Collegium San Diego, and she has enjoyed frequent collaborations with Music of the Baroque as soprano soloist in Handel’s Dixit Dominus and as Pales in Bach’s Hunt Cantata. In her previous two summers with Central City Opera, Véronique sang Papagena in Die Zauberflöte and the title role in Debussy’s La damoiselle élue, winning both the company’s Young Artist Award and Apprentice Artist Award. Véronique earned her MM from the University of Maryland’s Opera Studio and her BM from Northwestern University.