French-Canadian mezzo-soprano Julie Boulianne has been acclaimed for the agility and expressive power of her dark-hued mezzo-soprano in a wide repertoire, with a special focus on the music of Mozart and Rossini. Among her upcoming projects, Oktavian in Der Rosenkavalier for a new production at La Monnaie in Brussels, Charlotte in Werther at the Wiener Staatsoper, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni in Québec, Dorabella in Così fan tutte at the Royal Opera House – Covent Garden, she will be part of the world creation of Julien Bilodeau La Beauté du Monde in Montréal.

In the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 seasons, Julie Boulianne performed with the Royal Opera House on tour in Japan the part of Siébel in Faust, she sang Robin-Luron in Laurent Pelly’s production of Le Roi Carotte with Opéra de Lyon, Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Vancouver Opera, Dorabella in Così fan tutte at the théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse and in Glyndebourne.

In past seasons, Julie Boulianne has enjoyed several appearances at the Metropolitan Opera singing Siébel in Faust, Stéphano in Roméo et Juliette conducted by Plácido Domingo, Diane in Stephen Wadsworth’s production of Iphigénie en Tauride, conducted by Patrick Summers, the Kitchen-Boy in Rusalka alongside Renée Fleming, and Ascanio in Francesca Zambello’s production of Les Troyens, conducted by Fabio Luisi.

Ms. Boulianne made her role debut as Miranda in a new production by Robert Lepage of Thomas Adès’s modern masterpiece The Tempest, under the baton of the composer at the Festival Opéra de Québec. In past seasons she made her New York City Opera debut as the wily Lazuli in L’Étoile, directed by Mark Lamos; Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro at Vancouver Opera and at Opéra de Montréal; the title role in Massenet’s Cendrillon at Opéra de Montréal and at l’Opéra de Marseille; Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia for her debut at Minnesota Opera; and the title role in La Cenerentola at Aspen Opera Theater, Florida Grand Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, and Pacific Opera Victoria, as well as Fragoletto, the young hero of Offenbach’s Les Brigands, at both Opéra de Toulon and Opéra Comique in Paris.

On the orchestral stage, Julie Boulianne has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra singing in The Cunning Little Vixen conducted by Franz Welser-Möst; Charles Dutoit and the Boston Symphony in L’enfant et les sortilèges, the Baltimore Symphony singing Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Marin Alsop, her Japanese debut at the Saito Kinen Festival in Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher, and the Mostly Mozart Festival in Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass conducted by Nézet-Séguin at Lincoln Center. She appeared at Carnegie Hall performing Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s under the baton of Sir Roger Norrington as well as performances of Handel’s Messiah with the Colorado Symphony, Haydn’s Theresienmesse with Les Violons du Roy in Québec City, a return to Festival Opéra de Québec in a role debut in Berlioz’ La Damnation de Faust, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Orchestra Iowa, St. Matthew Passion with Orchestre Métropolitain in Montréal, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Pinchas Zukerman and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. She has also performed Ravel’s Shéhérazade with Emmanuel Villaume and the Utah Symphony, Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’Été with Nézet-Séguin and Orchestre Métropolitain, Messiah and Bach’s Mass in B minor with the Atlanta Symphony, Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with the Calgary Philharmonic, and Mozart’s Coronation Mass with the Cincinnati Symphony.

A graduate of McGill University’s Schulich School of Music, Julie Boulianne won the First Prize in both the Canadian Music Competition and the Joy of Singing Competition in New York. She has also been awarded the International Vocal Arts Institute’s Silverman Prize, and in 2007, the Prix de la Chambre des Directeurs for Most Promising Career at the Concours International de Chant de Montréal.