Born in 1993 in Normandy, France, Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur began working with soprano Maryse Castets in 2014, following her graduation from Sciences Po Bordeaux.

Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur’s upcoming engagements include Fenena in Nabucco at the Festival de Sanxay, Waltraute in Die Walküre at the Paris Opera, Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana at the Opéra de Montpellier, and the title role in Offenbach’s La Périchole at the Opéra de Saint-Étienne. She will also take on Simone in Delibes’s Jean de Nivelle in Budapest, Dara in Augusta Holmès’s La Montagne Noire at the Opéra de Bordeaux, Armide in Lully’s Armide in Budapest, and Krista in Janáček’s The Makropulos Affair at the Opéra de Lille.

In 2018, Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur performed Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle at the Opéra National de Bordeaux under the baton of Marc Minkowski. She returned there in May 2019 to sing Grimgerde in Wagner’s Die Walküre, conducted by Paul Daniel. That summer, she joined the prestigious Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival, where she performed the role of the Second Lady in Cherubini’s Medea with the Wiener Philharmoniker under Thomas Hengelbrock. In September 2019, she became a member of the Académie de l’Opéra de Paris, gave a recital in China, and appeared at the Opéra Garnier as the Mother, the Chinese Cup, and the Dragonfly in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges.

Between 2020 and 2024, Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur distinguished herself in several major roles, including Dido in Dido and Aeneas under Leonardo García Alarcón and Lucretia in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris. She appeared as Mère Marie de l’Incarnation in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites at the Opéra National de Bordeaux, and as Inès in Il Trovatore at the Paris Opera. She also sang the alto solo in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 under Laurence Equilbey in Paris, Antwerp, and Linz. In 2023/2024, she performed Marguerite in Bizet’s Le Retour de Virginie in Lyon, Meg Page in Falstaff at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, and appeared in major symphonic works including Verdi’s Requiem and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 under Daniel Harding. She was named one of the “Révélations” at the 2022 Victoires de la Musique Classique.

In the 2024/2025 season, Marie-Andrée’s engagements include Meg Page in Falstaff and Die Zweite Dame in Die Zauberflöte at the Opéra Bastille, as well as Néris in Cherubini’s Medea at both the Opéra Comique and the Opéra de Montpellier. She also performs Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 at the Philharmonie de Paris, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen in a staging by Romeo Castellucci.

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