Julie Roset, soprano — portrait

JulieRoset

Soprano

Biography
Julie Roset portrait

A voice between
light and emotion

Award-winning soprano at the Metropolitan Opera and the Operalia competition, Julie Roset graces the world's greatest stages with a vocal art where virtuosity yields to emotion.

As Grand Winner of the 2022 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, French soprano Julie Roset 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. Breakthrough performances as Zémire (Zémire et Azor) at Opéra Comique brought unanimous acclaim, with Le Figaro writing “the young soprano catches the light with her singing, as natural as it is intelligent”. 

Making an impressive debut at Opéra National de Paris as Amour (Médée) in David McVicar’s new production of Charpentier’s opera under William Christie, Julie Roset went on to join Raphaël Pichon and Claus Guth in an acclaimed staging of Rameau’s Samson at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and subsequently at Opéra Comique.  Additional highlights include Euridice and La Musica (L’Orfeo) in Sasha Waltz & Guests’ widely appreciated production at Teatro Real Madrid, and Ted Huffman’s inspired staging of L’incoronazione di Poppea at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, both conducted by Leonardo García Alarcón. 

Across a glittering 2025/26 season Julie Roset demonstrates her innate versatility in a series of significant debuts, notably at the Metropolitan Opera as Fiakermilli (Arabella) under Nicholas Carter, at Opéra Comique as Sophie (Werther) in a new staging by  Ted Huffman and conducted by Raphaël Pichon and as Blonde (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) at Glyndebourne Festival Opera under Evan Rogister.  She also joins Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra as Waldvogel (Siegfried) led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and performs Carmina Burana with Toronto Symphony Orchestra under Gustavo Gimeno. Her debut solo recital disc, M’a dit amour (Alpha Classics), with pianist Susan Manoff, will be launched with performances in Paris, Prague, Nantes, Barcelona, Évian and Edinburgh.

Julie Roset made her debut with Orchestre de Paris in Romeo Castellucci’s deeply felt staging of Mahler, Symphony No.2 under Esa-Pekka Salonen, making her Salzburg Easter Festival debut in the same work, and further building her concert repertoire with performances of Händel, Messiah, Bach, Weihnachtsoratorium, Haydn, Die Schöpfung and Bach, St Matthew Passion. In concertante performance she has twice appeared at Salzburger Festspiele with Adam Fischer and Mozarteum Orchester, as Tamiri in Il re pastore and as Ismene in Mitridate, re di Ponto and as Belinda (Dido and Aeneas) with Danish National Symphony Orchestra and in Acis and Galatea with l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.

At the same time, her close collaborations with leading baroque ensembles have helped shape her artistic identity, and she maintains enduring ties with Cappella Mediterranea, Le Concert de la Loge, Les Arts Florissants, and Twelfth Night, with whom she made her Carnegie Hall debut in Elemental, a curated programme of baroque arias.  With her own ensemble, La Néréide, she features on Luzzaschi: Il concerto segreto (Ricercar, 2023) and the forthcoming Le cœur et la raison (Alpha Classics) due for release this season.

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 foundation for a career that has already recognised her unique artistry, intelligence, and emotional depth.

Julie Roset in concert

“Certainly one of the greatest voices of our time”

Forum Opéra
Discography

Albums

Britten

Alpha Classics 2026

Britten

Orchestre philharmonique de Monte-Carlo – Lawrence Foster

Alpha Classics 2026

M’a dit Amour

Julie Roset - Susan Manoff

Alpha Classics 2026

Haydn : La Création du Monde

Le Concert de la Loge - Julien Chauvin

Alpha Classics 2026

La Passione di Gesù

Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García-Alarcón

Alpha classic 2025

Le coeur et la raison

Ensemble La Néréide

Harmonia mundi 2025

Orphée et  Eurydice

Les Arts Florissants - Paul Agnew

Aparté 2025

Dixit Dominus

Ensemble les Argonautes - Jonas Descotte

Harmonia mundi 2025

Mass in B Minor

Raphaël Pichon - Ensemble Pygmalion

Salve Regina

Ricercar 2025

Salve Regina

Julie Roset - Orchestre Millenium - Leonardo García-Alarcón

Le Quattro Stagioni

Harmonia Mundi 2025

Le Quattro Stagioni

Théotime Langlois de Swarte - Orchestre Le Consort

Alpha Classics 2024

Mozart, you drive me crazy

Golda Schultz - Antonello Manacorda

Alpha Classics 2024

Doux Silence

Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien - François Lazarevitch

Ricercar 2024

Luzzaschi : Il concerto delle donne

Ensemble La Néréide

Aparté 2022

Dido & Aeneas

Ensemble les Argonautes - Jonas Descotte

La Finta Pazza

Ricercar 2022

La Finta Pazza

Ensemble Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón

Alpha 2021

L'Orfeo, Monterverdi

Ensemble Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón

Ricercar 2021

Lamenti & Sospiri

Cappella Mediterranea, dir. Leonardo García Alarcón

Ricercar 2021

Samson

Chœur de chambre de Namur - Millenium Orchestra - Leonardo García Alarcon

Pentatone 2021

Brabant 1653

Holland Baroque

Harmonia mundi 2021

Septem Verba & Membra Jesu Nostri

Ensemble Correspondances - Sébastien Daucé

Ricercar 2021

Fürchtet Euch Nicht

Syntagma Amici Vox Luminis

Ricercar 2021

Nun Danket Alle Gott

Julie Roset - Clematis

Ricercar 2021

Jacques Arcadelt, Motetti Madrigali Chansons

Cappella Mediterranea - Doulce Mémoire - Chœur de chambre de Namur

Ricercar 2021

Claudio Monterverdi Lettera Amorosa

Mariana Flores - Cappella Mediterranea - Leonardo García Alarcón

Agenda

Upcoming
concerts

See Julie Roset on the world's greatest stages.

1, 3 may 2026

Rameau & Gluck

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Conductor : Raphaël Pichon

May 5, 7, 11, 13 2026

Tournée M’a dit Amour

Opéra Comique, Sables d’Olonnes, Prague, Barcelone

Pianiste : Susan Manoff

June 3, 2026

La petite fille sage

Festival Saint Denis

Ensemble La Néréide

June 6, 2026

Enchanted Forest

Darmstadt

June 14, 2026

Le cœur et la raison

Festival de Saint-Michel-en-Tiérache

June 20, 2026

Le cœur et la raison

Festival Froville

Ensemble La Néréide

June 30, 2026

M’a dit Amour

Rencontres Musicales d’Evian

Pianiste : Susan Manoff

August 27, 2026

M’a dit Amour

Festival d’Edinburgh

Pianiste : Susan Manoff

July 31 / august 2, 5, 11, 14, 17, 19, 22, 25, 28 2026

Entführung aus dem Serail (Blonde)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Director: David McVicar, Conductor: Evan Rogister

Video

On stage

Ah ! Le rire est béni, joyeux, léger, sonore ! - Werther - Massenet

Ah ! Le rire est béni, joyeux, léger, sonore ! - Werther - Massenet

January 2026

Press

In the media

Limelight

And boy is M'a dit Amour worth the wait (...) Roset's high soprano is liquid-pure and endlessly expressive, relishing the color and weight of texts in her native language. Her interplay with Manoff is one of the disc's chief joys, a partnership of spontaneous exchange rather than worked-beauty.

December 2026+

Classykeo

L’Oiseau de Julie Roset séduit à la fois par la souplesse de ses vocalises mais surtout par la séduction rafraîchissante de son timbre à la fois gracieux et charnu

April 2026+

Forum Opéra

Julie Roset, extraordinaire Waldvogel, au soprano sonore d’une beauté indicible

April 2026+

Diapason

Julie Roset chante un des plus jolis oiseaux qu’on puisse rêver

April 2026+

Bachtrack

Julie Roset est un Oiseau de la forêt d’exception : sa ligne fine et subtilement vibrée allie une prononciation impressionnante pour son registre aigu à une précision, une justesse et une agilité magistrales

April 2026+

New York Times

From concept to execution, everything works. Roset has suppleness in high notes (...) diction I son point throughout, as is intonation. With technique covered, Roset's intelligence runs to dramatic interpretation.

March 2026+

Diapason

L'originalité de son programme tient au répertoire convoqué

March 2026+

Opera Magazine

Cet enregistrement de mélodies françaises (...) prouve que même dans un domaine aussi fragile, la réussite peut être complète.

March 2026+

Le Monde

"Coup de coeur de Janvier" : souplesse du phrasé, fermeté de la diction, timbre cuivré et homogène dans tous les registres.

February 2026+

Diapason

Julie Roset pourrait bien être la nouvelle Sabine Devielhe

February 2026+
Gallery

In
pictures

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Opera Comique. Raphaël Pichon / Ted Huffman. Photos @Jean-Francois Fernandez

Werther, 2026

Arabella, 2025. Metropolitan Opera. Nicholas Carter / Otto Schenk. Photos @Marty Sohl

Arabella, 2025

Samson, 2025. Opéra Comique. Raphaël Pichon / Claus Guth. Photos @Stefan Brion

Samson, 2025

Victoires de la Musique Classique 2025, Rouen

Victoires de la Musique Classique, 2025

Médée, 2024. Opéra de Paris . William Christie / David McVicar. Photos @Elisa Haberer.

Médée, 2024