Avery Amereau

Since making her professional debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 2016 as the Madrigal Singer in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, Avery Amereau has rapidly drawn international attention for her remarkably rich mezzo and commanding stage presence. In particular demand for her concert work, Amereau has gone on to appear with some of the top houses and orchestras across the US and Europe.

In the 2025/26 season, Amereau returns to the Bayerische Staatsoper as Bradamante in a new production of Handel’s Alcina directed by Johanna Wehner and Page in Strauss’s Salome. Opera in concert includes her role debut as Irene in Handel’s  Theodora with the Jupiter Ensemble on a European tour and performances as Cherubino Le Nozze di Figaro with Rafael Payare and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.

On the concert platform, Amereau makes debuts with Chicago Symphony Orchestra in performances of Mozart’s Requiem conducted by Manfred Honeck and the National Symphony of Ireland in Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri led by Alexander Shelley. Further highlights include a US concert tour of Handel’s Messiah with the Handel & Haydn Society conducted by Jonathan Cohen and Ravel’s Shéhérazade with the Jacksonville Symphony.

Amereau made her house and role debut as Dorabella in a new production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte conducted by Vladimir Jurowski for the Bayerische Staatsoper in 2022, going on to join the ensemble in Munich from the 23/24 season. For the Bayersiche Staasoper Amereau has created new productions as Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro, Amando in Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre, Leda in Strauss’s Die Liebe der Danae, as well as Third Lady Die Zauberflöte.

Last season Amereau made her house debut as Olga in a new production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Royal Ballet & Opera, Covent Garden directed by Ted Huffmann. Elsewhere she appeared as Madrigal Singer Manon Lescaut for The Metropolitan Opera, Olga Eugene Onegin for Santa Fe Opera, Bradamante  Alcina for Hannover Staatsoper, Eduige Rodelinda at Opéra de Lille & Opéra de Lyon, Dryad Ariadne for Glyndebourne, Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro for Grand Théâtre de Genève, the title role in Bizet’s Carmen with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Serena Joy The Handmaid’s Tale for English National Opera, Ursule Béatrice et Bénedict for Seattle Opera as well as Page Salome for the Salzburg Festspiele.

In huge demand on the concert platform, Amereau’s engagements last season included Elgar’s Sea Pictures with the Cleveland Orchestra (Daniel Harding), Mozart’s Requiem with Boston Symphony Orchestra (Dima Slobodeniouk), Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Swedish Radio Orchestra (Daniel Harding), Mozart’s Requiem with Kansas City Symphony (Bernard Labadie), Bruckner’s Mass No. 1 with NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra (Ingo Metzmacher) and Handel’s Messiah with Boston Baroque.

Other recent highlights include her role debut as Marguerite Damnation de Faust with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra (Federico Cortese), Mozart’s Requiem with the Cleveland Orchestra (Franz Welser-Möst) & Barcelona Symphony (Trevor Pinnock), Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (Leonardo García Alarcón), Caroline Shaw’s The Listeners with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (Richard Egarr), Das Paradies und die Peri with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Daniel Harding) and her Tanglewood Festival debut singing Berlioz’s Les Nuits D’été with Boston Symphony Orchestra (Dmitri Slobodeniouk). A regular interpreter of Handel’s Messiah, recent performances have included with the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Bernard Labadie), Handel & Haydn Society (Václav Luks), St Paul Chamber Orchestra (Paul McCreesh) and with Collegium 1704 (Václav Luks) for a European tour.

As a recording artist, Amereau appears as the Sorceress in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with La Nuova Musica for the Pentatone label and in Caroline Shaw’s The Listeners with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra on their own label. Avery’s first solo album of Handel arias with Nicholas McGegan and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, selected as Editor’s Choice in Gramophone Magazine, was released in 2020 to huge critical acclaim.