Annick Massis is currently one of the world's most highly acclaimed lyric coloratura sopranos. She has appeared in the most prestigious European opera houses such as the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona; Teatro Real, Madrid; Grand Théâtre de Genève (Geneva); Zurich Opera; ViennaStaatsoper; Deutsche Oper, Berlin; and La Monnaie, Brussels. In the United States, Annick Massis has sung at the Metropolitan Opera of New York, at the Pittsburgh Opera, as well as in Washington and at the Avery Fisher Hall. In her native France, she has given performances in the most important opera houses such as the Paris Opera (both at the Bastille and at the Palais Garnier), the Capitole, Toulouse, and the opera houses of Marseille, Nice, Montpellier, and the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris. Annick Massis has also sung at many of the major Italian stages - Teatro alla Scala of Milan, the Teatro Malibran and the Teatro de la Fenice (Venice), the Teatro Comunale (Florence), the Regio (Turin), as well as in Trieste, Naples, Rome and Cagliari.

Annick Massis has appeared at many of Europe's greatest festivals - Glyndebourne, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Salzburg Festival, the Rossini Opera Festival of Pesaro and most recently, at the Arena of Verona.

Annick Massis has had the opportunity to work with conductors such as Alberto Zedda, Richard Bonynge, William Christie, Trevor Pinnock, Ivor Bolton, Marc Minkowski, Christoph Eschenbach, George Prêtre, Ottavio Dantone, Zubin Mehta, Daniel Oren, Eve Queler, Marcello Viotti , James Levine and with stage directors such as Pier Luigi Pizzi, Laurent Pelly and David McVicar...

Annick Massis has performed a great number of roles from the French repertoire, ranging from Rameau to Poulenc, passing by Berlioz, Halévy and Debussy, amoung many others. She is highly respected as a Mozart heroine, and has redefined for many listeners the art of bel canto, reviving some of the greatest coloratura roles of Donizetti, Bellini, Rossini as well as Verdi and Meyerbeer.

Amoung her roles, we can mention the following :

Semele and Almirena (Rinaldo) by Haendel. Konztanze ( Die Entführung aus dem Serail), La Comtessa (Le Nozze di Figaro),Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Giunia (Lucio Silla) by Mozart. La Folie (Platée) and Les Indes Galantes by Rameau. Philine (Mignon), Ophélie (Hamlet) by Thomas. Marguerite de Valois (Les Huguenots) and Margherita d’Anjou by Meyerbeer. Leila (Les Pêcheurs de Perles) by Bizet, Romeo et Juliette by Gounod, Eudoxie (La Juive) by Halévy, Teresa (Benvenuto Cellini) by Berlioz. Bellini's, La Sonnambula, I Puritani and I Capuleti e I Montecchi. Rossini's Amenaide (Tancredi), Matilde di Shabran, la Comtesse Adèle (Le Comte Ory), as well as both the French and the Italian versions of Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Verdi, La Traviata and Rigoletto. Donizetti, La Fille du régiment, Maria di Rohan and Lucia di Lammermoor, which she has sung in more than ten productions.


In addition to her performances on the operatic stage, Annick Massis is devoted to performing French Melodie and German Lied: Fauré , Poulenc, Viardot, Ravel, Debussy, Berlioz and Strauss. She completes her repertoire with around twenty sacred pieces and oratorios ranging from Stabat Mater by Pergolesi, great Mozart pieces (Requiem, Grand Mess in C minor, Exultate Jubilate) to the late works of Debussy (La Chute de la Maison Usher, Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien), Poulenc (Gloria, Stabat Mater) or Schumann (Les Scènes de Faust from Goethe).


Ms. Massis was awared the prestigious “La Siola d'oro”, in Cesena-Italy. She was named a “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres” by the French Ministry of Culture, the country's highest award in the field of arts and literature.


Last season, she triumphed in La Sonnambula at her triumphant debut at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin. She performed Les Pêcheurs de Perles at the Flanders Opera. At the Staatsoper of Vienna, she sang her first European Traviata and her first Juliette by Gounod. She created a sensation with her performance in the role of la Princesse Eudoxie (La Juive) at the Opéra Bastille (Le Monde's critic entitled his review of the opera, "La Triomphe d'Annick Massis")and made her debut at Trieste as Donna Anna her first performance of this role, and for which she received an enthusiastic reception from the public and from the press.Annick Massis also triumphed in her Lucia di lammermoor (Lucia) at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.