Biography
For the role of Annio in La Clemenza di Tito by Mozart at the Landestheater Linz, the German-French mezzo-soprano Florence Losseau is awarded with the Österreichischer Musiktheaterpreis 2020 as best upcoming female singer of Austria. After her successful debut as a member of the International Opera Studio Oberösterreich, she sings roles such as the title role in Britten's The rape of Lucretia, the third maid in Elektra, Fidalma in Il matrimonio segreto by D. Cimarosa and Suza in the Polish Wedding by J. Beer, a production that is also recognized by the Österreichischer Musiktheaterpreis in the same year as the best operetta production.
Florence Losseau starts her musical education in the children's choir of the Gärtnerplatz State Theater in Munich since the age of nine. In the Bayerische Chorakademie she is given important impulses in the singing lessons with Tanja Elbert. She studies at the Munich University of Music and Theater with Frieder Lang and soon becomes a member of the August Everding Theater Academy in the Prinzregententheater, where she studies opera singing for a master's degree with Prof. Michelle Breedt. She complets later on her second master's degree in artsongs, Liedgestalltung with Michelle Breedt, Céline Dutilly, Fritz Schwinghammer, Donald Sulzen and Tobias Truniger.
In October 2020 she makes a house debut at the Opéra de Lyon with great success as Conception in Maurice Ravel's L'heure espagnole. Later on, she is engaged to sing the role of Anton in the children's opera Pünktchen und Anton by Iván Eröd at the Cologne Opera. The leading role of Doña Prouhèze in the opera Le soulier de Satin by M.-A. Dalbavie, a world premiere, will take her to the Opéra National de Paris for the first time in May 2021 as a cover for the mezzo-soprano Eve-Maud Hubeaux. One year later in May 2022, she makes her debut at the Opéra Bastille as second maid in Elektra by R. Strauss. In 2021 she takes part in the Tyrolean Festival Erl as Wellgunde in Rheingold by R. Wagner, and in the Bregenz Festival as Zulma in L'Italiana in Algeri by G. Rossini. Both productions are directed by Brigitte Fassbaender. After the revival of L'heure espagnole by Ravel as Conception at the Opéra de Toulon in November 2021, she becomes a member of the ensemble of the Theater Erfurt in the season 21/22 where she sings roles such as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Prinz Orlowsky in Die Fledermaus, Muse and Niklausse in Hoffmann's Tales and as Fenena in Verdi's Nabucco at the DomStufen Festival.
She is currently an ensemble member at the Badische Staatstheater where she sings roles such as Hänsel, Dorabella, Fenena, Prinz Orlofsky, Octavian and Olga. In Summer 2023 she makes her debut as Carmen in a semistaged version in Artpia in Daegu, Korea. She also makes her debut in the season 2022/23 at three other major opera houses in Germany. She appeares in three productions at the Hamburg State Opera, as the fourth maid in Elektra, as the Queen of the Moon in A. Norman's Journey to the Moon and in Schwuppdiwupp, a music theater project for babies. At the Stuttgart State Opera she sings Wellgunde in the revival of Rheingold in Wagner's Ring, and at the Frankfurt Opera as second maid in Elektra by R. Strauss.
With the Munchener Rundfunkorchester she interpreted the role of Clizia in L'arbore di Diana by Matin y Soler, Mercedes in Carmen and Stasi in Polnische Hochzeit by J. Beer at the Prinzregenthetheater. She also appeares at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in the operetta Dr. Faust Junior by Hervé as Aglaé, as Police officer in Brundibar by Hans Krása and in the Cunning little Vixen by L. Janáček as Lapak, the Dog and Mrs. Paskova. She sings further roles such as Annina in La Traviata, Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Abuela in Manuel de Falla's La Vida Breve, Second and Third Lady in The Magic Flute. At the Aschaffenburg Theater she sings the role of Aquilio in Sterkel’s Farnace with the Accademia di Monaco, a German premiere.
She also celebrates successes in contemporary music, for example in the world premiere of STYX - Orfeo's past Now by A. Strauch, in which she sings Eurydice in 2014, in a production by Martina Veh and with Christopher Robson as Orfeo. In the same year she appeares at the Munich Biennale, International Festival for New Music, as Alt in Copernicus, opéra-rituel de mort by C. Vivier, with the Ensemble Oktopus .
In Berlin she wins 2nd prize in the Paula Salomon Lindberg Competition at the University of the Arts in Berlin in 2017, followed by an engagement at the Kissinger Sommer in June 2018 at the LiederWerkstatt with premieres by Manfred Trojahn, Fabien Lévy and Annette Schlünz. With Jan Philip Schulze, with whom she already formes a duo there, she gets to give a song recital Invitation au voyage at the Bruckner Haus Linz in the concert series Stars of Tomorrow in 2019.
In 2019 she is also awarded the Anneliese Rothenberger Prize on the island of Mainau and is a prize winner at the Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques in Montreal, Canada. In the same year she becomes a finalist at the renowned Das Lied competition in Heidelberg, she wins the 1st prize in the 2019 Operetta Competition in Linz, and the 3rd prize in the Richard Strauss Competition in Munich.
She is currently an ensemble member at the Badische Staatstheater where she sings roles such as Hänsel, Dorabella, Fenena, Prinz Orlofsky, Octavian and Olga. In Summer 2023 she makes her debut as Carmen in a semistaged version in Artpia in Daegu, Korea. She also makes her debut in the season 2022/23 at three other major opera houses in Germany. She appeares in three productions at the Hamburg State Opera, as the fourth maid in Elektra, as the Queen of the Moon in A. Norman's Journey to the Moon and in Schwuppdiwupp, a music theater project for babies. At the Stuttgart State Opera she sings Wellgunde in the revival of Rheingold in Wagner's Ring, and at the Frankfurt Opera as second maid in Elektra by R. Strauss.
With the Munchener Rundfunkorchester she interpreted the role of Clizia in L'arbore di Diana by Matin y Soler, Mercedes in Carmen and Stasi in Polnische Hochzeit by J. Beer at the Prinzregenthetheater. She also appeares at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in the operetta Dr. Faust Junior by Hervé as Aglaé, as Police officer in Brundibar by Hans Krása and in the Cunning little Vixen by L. Janáček as Lapak, the Dog and Mrs. Paskova. She sings further roles such as Annina in La Traviata, Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Abuela in Manuel de Falla's La Vida Breve, Second and Third Lady in The Magic Flute. At the Aschaffenburg Theater she sings the role of Aquilio in Sterkel’s Farnace with the Accademia di Monaco, a German premiere.
She also celebrates successes in contemporary music, for example in the world premiere of STYX - Orfeo's past Now by A. Strauch, in which she sings Eurydice in 2014, in a production by Martina Veh and with Christopher Robson as Orfeo. In the same year she appeares at the Munich Biennale, International Festival for New Music, as Alt in Copernicus, opéra-rituel de mort by C. Vivier, with the Ensemble Oktopus .
In Berlin she wins 2nd prize in the Paula Salomon Lindberg Competition at the University of the Arts in Berlin in 2017, followed by an engagement at the Kissinger Sommer in June 2018 at the LiederWerkstatt with premieres by Manfred Trojahn, Fabien Lévy and Annette Schlünz. With Jan Philip Schulze, with whom she already formes a duo there, she gets to give a song recital Invitation au voyage at the Bruckner Haus Linz in the concert series Stars of Tomorrow in 2019.
In 2019 she is also awarded the Anneliese Rothenberger Prize on the island of Mainau and is a prize winner at the Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques in Montreal, Canada. In the same year she becomes a finalist at the renowned Das Lied competition in Heidelberg, she wins the 1st prize in the 2019 Operetta Competition in Linz, and the 3rd prize in the Richard Strauss Competition in Munich.