Hailed as ‘a most promising talent’ (Le Devoir) mezzo-soprano Mireille Lebel is fast becoming one of Canada’s most sought after young performers. She recently completed her tenure as a young artist at the Montreal Opera and has performed with the Houston, Edmonton, San Antonio, and Trois-Rivières Symphony Orchestras, Les Violons du Roy, Edmonton Opera, and Pacific Opera Victoria. She has received acclaim for opera roles including Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte, Concepcion in L’Heure Espagnole, and the title role in Hansel und Gretel and this 
year will make her European debut at Theater Erfurt, adding the roles of Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, Ottone in Agrippina, and the title role in L’Enfant et les sortilèges to her repertoire. She also adds the title role in Carmen which she will perform in her début with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. The ‘cheeky and charismatic mezzo’ (Wales online) has been a guest at international festivals including the Boston Early Music Festival, Buxton Opera Festival, the Festival of the Sound and the Blumental International Music Festival. Her orchestral repertoire ranges from Mahler’s 2nd Symphony with Jacques Lacombe, Haydn’s Stabat Mater with Bernard Labadie, arias from Vivaldi’s Juditha Triumphans with Jeanne Lamon and Handel’s Messiah with Jean-Marie Zeitouni.
She can be heard on disc with the Boston Early Music Festival in Lully’s operas Thésée and Psyché, both nominated for a Grammy Award. Her work in Thésée was highly praised, the Frankfurter Allgemeine citing her performance as ‘an ecstatic mixture of linguistically oriented delivery, shapeliness of phrase and a rich spectrum of vocal colors brought together with high musicianship.’ This year, she adds Blow’s Venus and Adonis and Charpentier’s Actéon to her discography, again with the Boston Early Music Festival.
A recipient of a Canada Council emerging artist grant, Lebel received a Bachelor of Music from the University of Toronto, and a Masters of Music from the University of Montreal.
