Video samples :

Poulenc - La Voix humaine
Lehar - La veuve joyeuse

Representation: General Management

Michelle Canniccioni graduated from Bastia and Marseille Conservatories of Music.

In 1996, she integrates the Opera-studio of Paris National Opera and participates to several productions of the Opéra National de Paris including La Bohème (Musetta) and Carmen (Micaela)

From 2000, she is invited at the Opéra National du Rhin to sing L’Amico Fritz (Suzel), Carmen (Micaela) and Turandot (Liù) and in Caen to sing Platée (Junon) under Marc Minkowski. In Tokyo she sings Kate in Madama Butterfly directed by R. Wilson, in  Toulouse, Les Mousquetaires au Couvent (Simone)

Her great breakthrough occurs in 2004 when she is invited in Seville and Saint–Etienne to sing Blanche de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites and then at La Scala, still as Blanche, under Riccardo Muti. Later, she sings Micaela at the Glyndebourne Festival and goes on tour with the Glyndebourne Touring Company as Mimi in La Bohème (role debut).

Michelle Canniccioni has more recently sung Mahler 4th Symphony in Nice, La Ville Morte (Hébé) by N. Boulanger at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, La Voix Humaine in Eindhoven conducted by M. Soustrot, La Bohème (Mimì) in Massy, The Merry Widow (title-role) and Faust (Marguerite) in Liege, Fiesque (Léonore) at Radio-France Montpellier Festival next to Roberto Alagna as well as Gianni Schicchi (Lauretta) in Sao Paolo, Don Giovanni (Donna Elvira) and Die Fledermaus (Rosalinde) in Avignon, Il Segreto di Susanna in Montpellier.

Her future plans include the title role of La Veuve Joyeuse at the Opéra de Marseille, La Voix Humaine at the Esplanade de Saint-Etienne, Marguerite in Faust at the Opéra National de Bordeaux and Mimi in La Bohème at the Opéra National de Monte-Carlo.

Last update : April 2007