Mireille Lebel

Mireille Lebel is a Canadian-born opera singer based in Berlin, Germany. Her voice is a lyrical mezzo with soprano colour in the high notes.

Biography Lebel was born in Calgary, Alberta, and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. Following her studies she received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation for Young Canadian Opera and was awarded a place on the Opéra de Montréal's Atelier Lyrique artist-in-residence program. Lebel has also appeared in the Czech Republic with the Prague State Opera, in France with the Aix-en-Provence Festival, in the USA with the Houston Symphony Orchestra, and in Canada with Toronto's Opera Atelier and Tafelmusik, Quebec's Les Violons du Roy, and the Vancouver Opera, amongst others. While living in Europe, she prepared for each role by having several sessions with her teacher, renowned soprano Marie McLaughlin.

In 2020, when live performances were paused during the COVID-19 pandemic, Lebel put on a solo streaming production of Francis Poulenc's La voix humaine for the Vancouver Opera. In 2021, she sang the title role in the Vancouver Opera's all-female production of Orfeo ed Euridice. with Joana Mallwitz conducting) as well as close collaborations with contemporary composers such as Samy Moussa, Ana Sokolovic, and Stacey Brown.

Discography 2007 Boston Early Music Festival – Jean-Baptiste Lully's Thésée (Classic Produktion Osnabrück) 2008 Boston Early Music Festival – Jean-Baptiste Lully's Psyché (Classic Produktion Osnabrück) 2010 Boston Early Music Festival – Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Actéon (Classic Produktion Osnabrück) 2011 Boston Early Music Festival – John Blow's Venus and Adonis (Classic Produktion Osnabrück) 2014 Boston Early Music Festival – Marc-Antoine Charpentier's La descente d'Orphée aux enfers and La Couronne de fleurs (Classic Produktion Osnabrück) 2018 – (Dreyer Gaido) 2020 Richter Ensemble with Mireille Lebel – Vienna 1905–1910: Schoenberg, Webern, Berg: String Quartets (Passacaille) 2023 Boston Early Music Festival – Henri Desmarest's Circé (Classic Produktion Osnabrück)