About — Elodie Bouchard, Soprano

Passionate about early music, soprano Elodie Bouchard stands out for her musical expressivity and the diversity in colours of her voice. She performs regularly with the baroque ensemble Les Méandres and the Scholastica Ensemble with whom she participated in the recording Saints inouïs recently released on Atma Classique. She was featured at the opening concert of the Montreal Bach Festival in 2018, as well as at the Montréal Baroque Festival and the Young Performers Festival of Early Music America in 2019.

Opera McGill 2017 - Ariodante - Haendel Photo by Tam Lan Thuong — Opera McGill 2017 - Ariodante - Haendel
Photo by Tam Lan Thuong

Opera McGill 2019 - La liberrazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina - Francesca Caccini Photo by Sebastien Duckett — Opera McGill 2019 - La liberrazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina - Francesca Caccini
Photo by Sebastien Duckett

Career path and interest

Elodie completed a bachelor’s and master’s degree in classical voice performance at the Université de Montreal, followed by a master’s degree in early music at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in 2019. She received the Wirth Family Fellowship in music as well as a scholarship for excellence.

Interested in Lieder and French melodies, she has performed several recitals with pianists, in which she presents works by Poulenc, Wolf, Schubert, Debussy, and Hahn. It is primarily in this repertoire that she develops a concern for detail and a finesse of interpretation. During concerts, she interprets the creations of Montreal-based composers Eliazer Kramer and Maggie Ayotte.

Her interest in opera led her to perform several roles, including Alcina in Francesca Caccini’s La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina, the first opera composed by a woman, Ginevra in Handel’s Ariodante, Serpina in Pergolesi’s La serva padrona, peace in Charpentier’s Les arts florissants and the princess in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges.