Mezzo-soprano Valentine Lemercier started singing at 16. After studying at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the CNIPAL in Marseille, she won first prize at the Concours National de Chant de Béziers.

Her career quickly took off with roles such as Varvara in Káťa Kabanová, Mercédès in Carmen at the Opéra de Lyon and the Opéra de Paris, Marguerite in Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher with the Philharmonie de Liège and in Lyon, Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Third Maid in Strauss’s Elektra at the Philharmonie de Paris, the title role in Carmen in Avignon and Rosina in The Barber of Seville at the Opéra d’Avignon. She has also sung La Belle Hélène at the Opéra de Nancy and Adalgisa in Norma, and has appeared several times at the Chorégies d’Orange.

Recently, Valentine Lemercier has sung Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Adele in Il pirata at the Palais Garnier, Myrtale in Thaïs in Tours and Monte-Carlo and Flora in La traviata in Saint-Étienne, as well as Mozart’s Requiem in Paris and K. Beffa’s Nuit obscure at Les Invalides.

This season and among her upcoming projects, Valentine Lemercier sings the Third Nymph in Rusalka at the Opéra national de Bordeaux, Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at the Opéra de Nice, Mercédès in Carmen at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, the Second Lady in The Magic Flute at the Opéra de Nice, Stéphano in Roméo et Juliette in Hong Kong, the title role in La Périchole at the Opéra de Tours, directed by Valérie Lesort, and Mademoiselle Lange in La Fille de Madame Angot at the Opéra de Nice and the Opéra d’Avignon.