The French soprano Aurélie Loilier began her musical studies as a pianist at a very young age before discovering her passion and dedicating herself to classical singing.
She began her singing career quite young performing various opera roles such as
Violetta in La Traviata by Verdi, Musetta in La Bohème by Puccini, Adina in L’Elisir d’amore by Donizetti, Micaëla and Frasquita in Carmen by Bizet, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro by Mozart, Despina in Cosi fan tutte by Mozart, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni by Mozart, Serpetta in La Finta Giardiniera by Mozart, Elisetta in Il Matrimonio segreto by Cimarosa, Eurydice in Orphée et Eurydice by Glück, but also roles in many operettas in including the roles of Wanda in La Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein by Offenbach, Claudine in La Fille du Tambour-Major by Offenbach,Catherine in Pomme d’Api by Offenbach, Sylvabelle in L’Auberge du cheval blanc by Benatsky, and Germaine in Les Cloches de Corneville by Planquette just to name a few.
Aurélie Loilier can also be heard in the sacred repertoire often, in particular at the Eglise de la Madeleine in Paris, the Eglise de Saint-Germain-des-Prés or at the Sainte-Chapelle as well.
She has also given many recitals in France, in the Middle East (Koweït, Bahraïn, Abu Dhabi andLibanon), in Russia (House of Music inMoscow, Richter Festivalin Tarusa, Khrennikov Festival in Elets), in China (Shanghai), in South America (Medellin Theatre in Columbia), in the Baltic region (Riga Opera), in Tunisia and Algeria (Algiers Opera, the Zenith in Constantine, the Oran Theatre, and the Institut Français in Algiers.
She sang and played in the film “Aurore” by Blandine Lenoir with Agnès Jaoui. She was the voice in the commercial for the perfume “Le Mâle” by Jean Paul Gaultier singing Bellini’s famous aria “Casta Diva” from Norma.
Aurélie Loilier recently recorded a CD dedicated to the works of French female composer Augusta Holmes with pianist Qiaochu Li for the label Maguelone.
She equally conceptualized a show around the life of this composer at the same time as the release of the album, which was warmly met with praise by the press, in particular in Le Monde, Télérama, Classica, le Figaro Magazine and Forum Opéra.
Her one-woman show “Augusta Holmès, l’Indomptable”, where she embodies the titular heroine as well as interprets her music, debuted at Salle Cortot in Paris and is regularly programmed elsewhere since its conception.
“All the way around, the interpretation of Aurélie Loilier is an incarnation. Imprecatory declamation and thrilling vibrato: theatrical and intimate”
(Le Monde 27/28 October 2019)
“The vocal arabesques resonate long after the CD has stopped spinning… The silence after Holmès is still Holmès. At last!”
(Le Figaro Magazine, 6 décembre 2019)
“Her vibrant and melodious resurrection more than a decade later by Aurélie Loilier finally does her justice.
(Télérama, 27 décembre 2019)
“The voice is beautiful, especially in the low inflections, and the drama of the music is well emphasized, without excess…”
(Classica, December 2019)
During the 2021/2022 season, she returns to the role of Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata, a role she particularly holds near to her heart, for a number of performances at the Fondation Dosne-Thiers, place Saint-Georges inParis.
She also is a featured artist on the company “Voyages d’exception » musical cruises in concert and recital along the Elbe in the Czech Republic and Germany and then the along the Duoro in Portugal.