Marianne Fiset

Soprano Marianne Fiset is one of Canada’s finest young opera singers. First prize winner at the 2007 Montreal International Musical Competition, she also received four other awards, including the Jean A. Chalmers Prize for best Canadian artist and the Joseph-Rouleau Prize for best Quebec artist. In 2008, the Quebec Music Council named her “Discovery of the Year” at its annual Opus Gala. That same year, she was named “Young Soloist” by the French-language public radio stations (Radio France, Radio Suisse Romande, RTBF, and Radio-Canada), and in 2009, she was named “Radio-Canada Music Revelation.”

Marianne Fiset has given numerous concerts and recitals in Canada, France, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, and the United Kingdom. She has also performed at the Opéra de Montréal, the Opéra de Québec, and the Saskatoon Opera. In Canada, Marianne Fiset has sung with most of the major orchestras and at most of the country’s most important musical events. Notable performances include appearances at the Luminato Festival in Toronto, the Vancouver Festival, the Domaine Forget International Festival, the Lanaudière Festival, and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra’s Bel Canto Festival, as well as concerts with Les Violons du Roy, the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Métropolitain, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Kingston Symphony, the Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra, and the Canadian Francophonie Orchestra. She has also sung with the Tours Symphony Orchestra and the RTVE Symphony Orchestra of Madrid. A graduate of the Quebec Conservatory of Music and a member of the Montreal Opera’s Young Artists Program from 2005 to 2007, Marianne Fiset studied with Jacqueline Martel- Cistellini and furthered her training with renowned instructors such as Cesar Ulloa, Denise Massé, Gerald Martin Moore, and Carol Isaac.