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ABOUT /
VANESSA  
        

Dominick Gravel Photography

A critically acclaimed soprano, Vanessa Croome is known for her work in contemporary, classical, and baroque repertoire.  A recent graduate of the Santa Fe Opera, Opéra de Montréal, and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis artist residency programs, Vanessa is also the co-founder of the rising voice and cello chamber ensemble, Duo Étrange

 

Recent engagements include Queen of the Night (The Magic Flute, Jacksonville Symphony), Königin der Nacht (Kosky’s Die Zauberflöte, l’Opéra de Montréal), Soloist in the world premier of M.Butterfly at the Santa Fe Opera, La Folie (Platée, Orchestre de L’Agora) and concert debuts with l'Orchestre Métropolitain and l’Orchestre Symphonique de Drummondville, as well as critically acclaimed recital debuts at the Chapelle Historique du Bon-Pasteur and L’Association des Arts et Culture dans les Hautes Vosges

 

Dedicated to creating contemporary classical art for modern audiences, Vanessa is a founding member of the voice and cello duo, Duo Étrange. Since the Duo’s founding in 2023, they have had remarkable early success. In May 2025 the duo will record their début disk with Montreal’s iconic label ATMA Classique supported by the Canada Council for the Arts featuring a world premieres by four Canadian composers: Nicole Lizée, Airat Ichmouratov, Laurence Jobidon, and Jeffrey Fong alongside works from Luna Pearl Woolf, Andre Previn, and other canon works. The Duo is rapidly making a name for themselves on the concert stage and in the world of new music; additional recent engagements include a coveted spot on the 2024-2025 Le Vivier Pôle Relève, a residency with Yellow Barn chamber music institute developing an original arrangement of Ligeti's Mysteries of the Macabre. 

 

A graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and McGill University, Vanessa received young artist training with Opéra de Montréal, the Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and the Staatstheater Augsburg. A winner of the Opéra de Montréal Prix Étoile Stingray, Vanessa was a finalist for the Canadian Opera Company Centre Stage Competition and the McGill University Elizabeth Wirth Vocal Prize, as well as a semi-finalist for the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Competition, a two-time winner of the Francis Poulenc Foundation Award, and a 2020, and 2023 winner of Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques with Théâtre Lyrichorégra. 

 

Passionate about introducing audiences to classical music in unconventional ways, Vanessa was named one of Montreal's Top 50 Women Leaders for 2024 for her work creating unconventional classical music-centric events. Recent collaborations in this space include projects with the critically acclaimed chamber music festival Alto/Fest,  the Japanese Consulate, the Embassy of Hungary,  project grants from the UK based Daisie.com, and an Art X Tech project called ‘Galerie’ with the Atelier Lyrique of Opéra de Montréal.

ROLES

Bernstein:        Cunégonde / Candide 

 

Britten:             Miss Wordsworth / Albert Herring

                         Miles  / Turn of the Screw

Bizet:                Frasquita Carmen

Delibes:            Lakmé / Lakmé

 

Donizetti:          Corilla / Viva la Mamma

 

Handel:             Morgana / Alcina 

Jobidon:            Léa / L'hiver attend beaucoup de moi +

Massenet:         La Fée / Cendrillon 

 

Mozart:             Königin der Nacht / Die Zauberflöte

                         Pamina / Die Zauberflöte

 

                         Susanna / Le nozze di Figaro

                         Barbarina / Le nozze di Figaro           

                         Despina / Così fan tutte

                          

Rameau:           La Folie / Platée 

 

Ravel:                Le Feu / L'enfant et les sortilèges

Rossini:             Comtesse Adèle / Le comte Ory

 

Ruo, Huang:     Josephine Young* / An American Soldier +

Schönberg:       Cosette / Les Misérables 

Strauss II:          Adele / Die Fledermaus 

Verdi:                 Oscar / Un ballo in maschera 

(*) Cover   (+) World Premiere

CONCERT & CHAMBER

Barber:              Knoxville, Summer of 1915

Chausson:         Chanson Perpétuelle, Op. 37

Fauré:                Requiem in D minor, Op. 48

   

Handel:              Messiah

Honegger:         Le Roi David (Soprano soloist)v

Lang:                 Heroin

                          Prayers for Night and Sleep

Ligeti:                Mysteries of the Macabre

 

Mahler:              Symphony Nº 4

 

Mendelssohn:    Elijah, Op. 70 (#7, 28, 35 soloist) 

Previn:               Four Songs for Soprano, Cello, and Piano 

                          Vocalise

Tavener:             Akhmatova Songs

Pearl Woolf:        Rumi: Quatrains of Love

                           Epithalamion        

Cycles 

Copland:           Four Early Songs 

 

Debussy:           Quatre chansons de jeunesse

                          Fêtes galantes, L.86 Book I 

 

Larsen:              Songs from Letters

 

Poulenc:            Fiançailles pour rire 

                          Deux poèmes de Louis Aragon 

                          Métamorphoses

Strauss:            Brentano Lieder

                         Ophelia Lieder

  

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