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The Swiss mezzo-soprano, Véronique Meylan Rossier, had received a degree in psychology from the Université de Genève, before she began professional music studies at the Conservatoire de Fribourg, Switzerland and obtained her teaching diploma in June 2007. During her training, she took part in master-classes given by Mady Mesplé and Philippe Huttenlocher. Afterwards, she perfected her vocal technique with Isabelle Henriquez.
After debuting in ensembles such as the Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne directed by Michel Corboz, Ensemble Vocal Euterpe directed by Christophe Gesseney and the Choir of the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Véronique Rossier's career as a soloist took off. Performing under the baton of many conductors in French-speaking Switzerland, her musical activity includes concerts, operas, ensemble music, creations and recitals, including a program with guitar (De Falla, G. Lorca and Dowland ).
Véronique Rossier first staged the stage in 2003 as one of the six queens of Arthur Honegger's Roi Pausole at the Friborg Opera House, followed by various productions such as Nino Rota's Il cappello di paglia di Firenze, Janacek's The Diary of One Who Disappeared and Igor Stravinsky 's Les Noces. She was ensemble member of the Grand Théâtre de Genève from 2001 to 2008. On various occasions she has participated in galas and shows where she sang opera and operetta tunes. In the 2015-2016 season of the Friborg Opera, she is the nun Immaculata, in the creation of D. Gesseney-Rappoz' Carlotta ou la Vaticane.
Particularly fond of concerts and oratorio, Véronique Rossier has been heard in works ranging from Monteverdi and Charpentier to Benjamin Britten, Frank Martin and Schnittke, through cantatas by J.S. Bach and W.A. Mozart's Masses. With a predilection for works such as W.A. Mozart's Requiem, Antonio Vivaldi's Gloria, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, J.S. Bach's St John Passion (BWV 245), St Matthew Passion (BWV 244), Mass in B minor (BWV 232) and Easter Oratorio (BWV 249), Georg Philipp Telemann's Der Tod Jesu, Michael Haydn's Requiem, Joseph Haydn's Seven Last Words of Christ, Arvo Pärt's Berliner Messe, Felix Mendelssohn's Drei Geistliche Lieder, Johannes Brahms' Liebeslieder, Gouvy's Stabat Mater, Ralph Vaughan Williams's Mass in Winter, Camille Saint-Saëns Oratorio de Noël, F. Martin's Vin Herbé (role of the mother of Iseult), Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle, and Maurice Duruflé's Requiem. |
