Marie-Eve Munger was born in Chicoutimi, Canada, and studied at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Montreal. After winning the International Singing Competition in Marmande, she made her international debut in France at the Opera de Tours and in Il sogno di Scipione with the Gotham Chamber Opera in New York. In a career spanning both sides of the Atlantic, she has sung in venues such as La Scala, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, La Monnaie, the Opéra Comique in Paris, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, the Opéra national du Rhin, the Opera de Lille, the Opera de Lausanne, the Opera de Nantes, the Opera de Marseille, the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, the Wexford Festival, the BBC Proms; at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Minnesota Opera, the Florentine Opera of Milwaukee, and the Opéra de Montréal. Her repertoire includes roles such as Ophélie, Gilda, Lakmé, Zerbinetta, Tytania, and the Fairy in Cendrillon. She has also sung the Nightingale in Die Vögel by Braunfels and created the roles of the Fairy in Pinocchio by Philippe Boesmans and the Coloratura in The Second Woman by Frédéric Verrières. In concert, she has been a soloist with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and premiered Paradis perdu by Régis Campo with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. She regularly performs in recitals. In her free time, she is an avid gardener, passionate about neuroscience, aspiring sailor, and mother of a wonderful little boy.
