Julie Roset
“One of the most exciting moments arrived in the second act, with the coloratura intrusions of Fiakermilli, sung by the soprano Julie Roset in her house debut. More than agile, her sound was acrobatic, confidently showing off vocal back flips with brightness and comedic charm.”
The New York Times, November 2025
In recent seasons, French soprano Julie Roset has emerged as one of the most captivating young artists of her generation, distinguished by a radiant timbre, musical intelligence, and instinctive dramatic sensitivity. As Grand Winner of the 2022 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, she went on to take First Prize at Plácido Domingo’s Operalia in 2023 and was crowned Révélation Lyrique at Les Victoires de la Musique Classique in 2025.
A succession of prestigious debuts has charted Julie Roset’s ascent on the international stage, each appearance unveiling fresh facets of her singular talent in an ever-expanding repertoire. Her Metropolitan Opera debut as Fiakermilli in Arabella, conducted by Nicholas Carter, proved a standout event, with The New York Times describing her performance as “one of the most exciting moments” of the evening and praising a voice that was “acrobatic, confidently showing off vocal back flips with brightness and comedic charm”.
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Elsewhere, Roset has made acclaimed debuts at some of the world’s leading opera houses, appearing as Amour in Charpentier’s Médée at Opéra National de Paris under William Christie and as Blonde in David McVicar’s vibrant Glyndebourne Festival Opera production of Die Entführung aus dem Serail, conducted by Evan Rogister. At Opéra Comique, she has charmed audiences as Sophie in Ted Huffman’s insightful new production of Werther under Raphaël Pichon as well as the title role of the rarely performed Zémire et Azor. At Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, she debuted as Amore in L’incoronazione di Poppea under Leonardo García Alarcón, later returning as the Angel in the celebrated staging of Rameau’s Samson by Claus Guth. At Teatro Real Madrid, she performed the dual roles of Euridice and La Musica in L’Orfeo in Sasha Waltz & Guests’ acclaimed choreographed production and at Salzburger Festspiele, she has twice appeared in Mozart with conductor Adam Fischer and the Mozarteum Orchester, as Tamiri in Il re pastore and Ismene in Mitridate, re di Ponto.
The 2026/2027 season brings another exciting new chapter in Julie Roset’s flourishing international career, including a range of landmark debuts. At its heart is her first performance as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos in two major productions: first Myriam Marzouki’s staging at Opéra national du Rhin under Christopher Koncz, before reprising the role for her Canadian Opera Company debut conducted by Music Director Johannes Debus. Roset also makes an anticipated debut at Bayerische Staatsoper, appearing as Sophie in Marie-Eve Signeyrole’s new production of Werther, led by Daniele Rustioni.
On the concert stage in the upcoming season, Julie Roset performs at the BBC Proms in Britten’s Les Illuminations with John Wilson and Sinfonia of London, a work she recently recorded with Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and Lawrence Foster for Alpha Classics, released to unanimous critical acclaim. Additional concert highlights include Carmina Burana with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Philharmonia Orchestra, both under Santtu-Matias Rouvali,
Roset released her debut solo recital album M’a dit Amour on Alpha Classics in 2026 with pianist Susan Manoff, and was honoured with a Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik and exceptional critical acclaim. In live performance, they have presented the programme together this year at Opéra Comique, New Town Hall Prague, Conservatoire des Sables d’Olonne, Fundació Victoria de los Ángeles, La Source Vive Evian and at the 2026 Edinburgh International Festival.
In concert, Roset recently received exceptional praise for her interpretation of Wagner’s Waldvogel in performances of Siegfried in Paris, Rotterdam, Dortmund and Baden-Baden with Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and made a noted debut with Orchestre de Paris in Romeo Castellucci’s deeply felt staging of Mahler’s Symphony No.2 under Esa-Pekka Salonen, reprising the same work for her Salzburg Easter Festival debut. She sang Carmina Burana under Gustavo Gimeno with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and presented a programme of Rameau and Gluck with Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Raphaël Pichon with whom she also toured extensively in Bach’s St Matthew Passion, together with Ensemble Pygmalion.
Roset’s close collaborations with leading baroque ensembles have played a defining role in shaping her artistic identity, and she maintains enduring ties with Cappella Mediterranea, Le Concert de la Loge, Les Arts Florissants, Ensemble Pygmalion and Twelfth Night, with whom she made her Carnegie Hall debut in Elemental, a curated programme of baroque arias and duets.
Julie Roset’s musical education began at the Conservatoire du Grand Avignon, followed by a degree with honours from the Haute École de Musique de Genève. She went on to gain an Artist Diploma in Opera Studies at the Juilliard School in 2022, laying the foundations for a career already defined by unique artistry, intelligence and emotional depth.
A founding member of the vocal ensemble, La Néréide, they tour regularly across the season and have two highly acclaimed releases on Alpha Classics: Luzzaschi: Il concerto segreto and Le cœur et la raison.
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“Julie Roset’s crystalline soprano is perfectly suited to the delicate, ethereal character of these songs. Her vocal line is flexible and light, effortlessly secure in the upper register and brings subtle colour to the texts. In the long phrases, the voice becomes almost instrumental, carrying the listener to enchanting heights. The songs by Isabelle Aboulker reveal another side of the artist: a natural performer, witty and brimming with infectious energy.”
“Julie Roset’s Woodbird is quite exceptional: her finely shaped line, lightly coloured by vibrato, combines impressive diction in the upper register with remarkable precision, accuracy and agility.”
“Julie Roset proved perhaps the purest-voiced Woodbird I have ever heard.”
“Julie Roset was an extraordinary Waldvogel, with a resonant soprano of indescribable beauty.”
“Julie Roset enters with her startling declamation: ‘J’ai seul la clef de cette parade sauvage’. She galvanises the players into a different dimension altogether and the rest of the performance is simply magical. Her tone is radiant and perfectly focused – intonation is immaculate and the vocal colouring ideal and imaginative throughout. This is one of the finest performances of its kind I’ve ever heard”
“Julie Roset sang one of the most beautiful Waldvogels we could have dreamed of”
“one of the finest performances of its kind”
“Julie Roset shapes the laughter aria with exquisite taste, adorned with vocalises and dotted with sparkling high notes.”
“Julie Roset is an immediately convincing Sophie, both vocally and in her stage presence — always truthful and never overstated. Her timbre is like clear, luminous water, and the pleasure becomes contagious when she ventures with ease into the high notes. Clever and independent, she distances herself from more stereotypical portrayals of the character.”
“As Sophie, Julie Roset is impeccably fresh, natural and spontaneous, flying through her part like the laughing bird she sings about so skilfully in Act 3.”
“Julie Roset’s debut recital album is a delight. To hear a dazzlingly bold voice of such character and flexibility, and such intelligent singing is a constant pleasure.”
“Roset’s high soprano is liquid-pure and endlessly expressive, relishing the colour and weight of texts in her native language.”
“Julie Roset’s light, high‑lying voice, with its luminous tone and clear diction, immediately establishes her as a well‑seasoned melodist.”
“One of the most exciting moments arrived in the second act, with the coloratura intrusions of Fiakermilli, sung by the soprano Julie Roset in her house debut. More than agile, her sound was acrobatic, confidently showing off vocal back flips with brightness and comedic charm.”
“Julie Roset shone as Fiakermilli, with crystalline precision and unaffected charm. In a role often treated as decorative, she projected personality and ease, her gleaming high notes and easy vivacity enlivening ‘Die Wiener Herrn verstehen sich’.”
“In her Met debut, coloratura soprano Julie Roset as the Fiakermilli sparkled her way through the ballroom act with delicate, uncanny high notes.”
“In the role of the Fiakermili, Julie Roset made her house debut and showed great promise. The moment the French coloratura soprano entered the stage, she was hard to look away from. Her charisma was intoxicating. Vocally, she was superb in “Die Wiener Herrn verstehen sich,” singing the yodeling coloratura with precision and sparkling high notes that rang in the house.”
“Roset offered a sensitive, gripping interpretation of “Tu sai per chi m’accese,” she had the right combination of vocal agility and an aura of innocence to stand out in this performance.”
“Julie Roset has a fresh voice, impeccable technique, and interprets the role of the princess Ismène with exquisite distinction.”
“Julie Roset’s Bellezza carries all the expected allure and freshness. We are dazzled by the purity of her tone, the delicacy of the phrasing, the assured technique, and the refinement of her ornamentation. Her warm, rich, and full vocal tone, exceptional breath control, lightness and projection, all inspire admiration. Without doubt, one of the greatest voices of our time.”
“Julie Roset has an extremely pure, fresh, and youthful voice, ideal for Phani, a role in which she gave a lesson in delicacy and expressiveness”
“Julie Roset can still easily shine with her crystal-clear soprano.”
“Julie Roset (Timna) excels in the more serene passages, showcasing beautiful phrasing and a delightful tone.”
“Julie Roset takes on the complex and rewarding role of Timna. She navigates the tricky turns of the arias and duets with great virtuosity, demonstrating musical maturity, excellent pronunciation, flexibility in the high notes, and remarkable tone quality.”
“The excellent Julie Roset as Timna dazzles with her magnificent tone and flawless agility.”
“From the very first notes of this aria, Julie Roset captivates the listener with a voice of crystalline purity and remarkable delicacy, both in the melodic line and the vocal embellishments. These few minutes of bliss alone would justify listening to the entire album.”
“Julie Roset’s celestial soprano was clean and focused throughout”
“countering the spiritual glow from a resplendent RNSO chorus and ethereal luminescence from soprano Julie Roset”
“Julie Roset portrays Amour as both mischievous and reassuring, playing the role immensely despite the concert’s ‘recital’ version, getting involved at every turn, with meticulous diction, ease throughout the upper tessitura and, above all, an appreciable focus and breadth of timbre that give her arias a particular brassy flavour and generosity.”
“Her high notes are brilliant, her vibrato under control, and her fluid vocal line adds an ethereal dimension to her interpretation.”
“Julie Roset is impressive in her confidence and ease. Her ability to vary her interpretation sometimes as a voluptuous languor, sometimes as an otherworldly beauty of suspended high notes and sometimes as an assertive projection, the roundness of the timbre remaining immutable.”
“Julie Roset (freshly crowned at the prestigious Operalia Competition) demonstrates a warm, flexible, brilliant, and richly nuanced voice in a singing style that effortlessly shapes the music.”
“Julie Roset is an Amour with a clear, shiny and warm voice, playing with the score by offering effects that are as brilliant as they are agile”
“Julie Roset is the jewel of the evening: her disconcertingly easy high notes reflect obvious grace and charisma. The portrayal of Amour is the most successful and the singer’s mischief delights the spectator. It is an understatement to say that this is a sensational debut at the Paris Opera.”
“Julie Roset won over the audience with the freshness of her tone, the sovereign beauty of her phrasing and the delicacy of her musicality. Perfectly equal in all registers, ideally projected, her voice with its silver tone is reminiscent of the greatest singers who have ventured into this score.”
“Julie Roset always springs forth like a cathedral spire, embodying simplicity, but never omitting depth. Her magnificent projection responds to a breathtaking mastery of resonance with the orchestra. Her voice expresses the words beautifully and her musical interpretation is especially moving. It will take time to find an artificial intelligence capable of surpassing the pleasure of listening to this rising soprano!”
“[Julie Roset] immediately exults in the aria “ Tornami a vagheggiar ” from Alcina , her voice bursting forth with dizzying ease. The ease also derives from her ornamentation of the Da Capo, giving priority to the high notes in spectacular flights. The careful delivery preserves all the delicacy of the timbre and evokes the languor of amorous waiting by stretching out the sounds adorned with a warm vibration.”
“Julie Roset’s silvery soprano deepened throughout the performance: another well-judged and well-executed trajectory.”
“In the role of Love, Julie Roset stands out for the lightness of her range, the brilliance of her tone as well as her deeply baroque attacks.”
“In the role of Zémire, [Julie Roset] reaches great heights with her singing which is as natural as it is intelligent, light in the high register, strong in the middle register, with agility and luminous legato. Her technique paves the way for expression: the future is at her feet.”
“Julie Roset (Zémire), fresh as a rose, a coloratura with strength in her tone, plays with vocal pyrotechnics and astounding ambition in the ‘air de la fauvette.”
“The queen of the performance is without question Julie Roset. […] Her high notes are rounded and full of tender harmonies, her vocalises have a liquid agility, the middle register is strong and she portrays Zémire with sincerity. All these qualities are present in the aria ‘La Fauvette avec ses petits’ where her voice never seems forced, even in the highest register which flows with ease, the canto di sbalzo is splendid, […], and the trills have the precision of the beating wings of a colibri bird. All that is already remarkable, but what’s more is that she succeeds in tainting the first part of the aria with a hint of fear, while the second part shines with a melancholy delivered with stunning simplicity, and the reprise of the first part explodes with courage, as if she is already certain that Azor has been convinced to set her free.”
“Having already performing in various projects with Leonardo García Alarcón, Julie Roset (Ange, Gabriel et Eve), makes herself known through the beauty of her voice and her incredible ease in the top register[…] the young soprano demonstrates art at the highest level, musically and poetically — every note counts. A revelation for lots of listeners and an artist worth following very closely.”
“Julie Roset is quite simply astounding! She has everything: beautiful tone, vocal flexibility, sensitivity, virtuosity… Her first appearance is splendid, the ‘air de printemps’ is full of freshness and joyfulness, and bird-like in its agility.”
“The French soprano Julie Roset was the gentle Euridice and La Musica, performing with vocal and physical suppleness.”
“Roset sings with crystalline beauty and heartfelt sincerity; the technical élan and exuberance of the ‘Quonaim’ finale have irresistible conviviality.”
“Vocally, we must highlight the magnificent work of Julie Roset, one of the countless emerging talents of the French Baroque”
“The young French soprano Julie Roset is a Euridice to consider for the next decades, both musically and vocally, to which is added her versatility to dance alongside the virtuosos of the company Sasha Waltz.”
“This voice, so moving in its simplicity, brings to these pieces a real aura of sincerity: a little gem”
“Unquestionably, Julie Roset’s star shines with an increasingly assertive brilliance. The qualities are obvious: technical solidity, supple and precise agility, freshness of a delightful timbre. It dwells with touching simplicity in the relatively well-known motets of Händel.”
“We can only salute the judicious choice of Leonardo Garcia Alarcon to assign the soprano Julie Roset the role of Galatea. Her voice works wonders in this complex role requiring perfect vocal mastery.”
“To embody the charming Galatea, an almost idealized paragon of love, the young Julie Roset deploys the freshness and lightness of her voice, particularly in the subtle vocalizations “
“The angelic sweetness of Julie Roset’s soprano suited the gentle Euridice of the first two acts, and in Act III, when she visited the suicidal Aristeo as an avenging wraith, she summoned an unexpected vehemence of declaration.”
“Julie Roset (Amour) has both superb timbre and supple agility.”
“Julie Roset’s sharp and mischievous Amour demonstrates beautiful high notes and a very pure line.”
“Julie Roset ….. the sparkling and lively soprano brilliantly performs her victory duet with Prometheus.”
“In the role of the Philistine, the young Julie Roset is quite simply flawless. Gentle without being naive, she imbues each of her passages with solid vocals and psychological insight.”






















