Marie Lenormand

French mezzo-soprano Marie Lenormand was last heard here as Hermia in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She appears this spring as Cherubino in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, a role she sang recently at Rouen Opera. An alumna of the Houston Grand Opera Studio, Ms. Lenormand has gone on to a successful international career on the stages of the world’s most important opera houses. Her recent credits include appearances in her native France as Olga in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and Nicklausse and the Muse of Poetry in Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann. She has also sung Urbain in Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots at Bard Summerscape in New York, Fragoletto in Offenbach’s Les Brigands at the Grand Théâtre du Luxembourg, Lapak in Janácek’s The Cunning Little Vixen in Florence, and Dorabella in Mozart’s Così fan tutte at Rouen Opera. Ms. Lenormand has also sung Arsamene in Handel’s Xerxes with Boston Baroque. On May 5, she will give a recital with pianist Keith Weber as part of Houston’s Music at St. Philip Concert Series. Other upcoming engagements include the Fox in The Cunning Little Vixen with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fischer Hall in New York. Ms. Lenormand was named Musical Revelation of the Season this year by the Syndicate of the French National Press for her interpretation of the title role of Mignon by Ambroise Thomas at the the Opéra Comique in Paris.