Marie-Juliette Ghazarian, mezzo-soprano
French mezzo-soprano Marie-Juliette Ghazarian initially turned, at a very young age, to the study of the harpsichord. Fascinated by opera, she soon began vocal training and left Paris to further her studies at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.
In 2018, she joined the MM Academy of La Monnaie, where she is now among the MM Laureates. In 2019, she entered the opera studio of the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi, where she studied roles such as Carmen, Dorabella (Così fan tutte) and the Second Lady (The Magic Flute). As an Artist in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, she began a new phase of her training in 2022.
She made her stage debut in 2018 as Rick in I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky by John Adams at the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, before appearing at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie and in Paris at the Théâtre de l’Athénée. In recent seasons, she has performed the Third Lady (The Magic Flute) at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Abuela in Cambio madre por moto by Fabian Nuyts in Ghent, the Page of Herodias (Salome) at the Opéra de Metz, and Suzuki (Madama Butterfly) as part of Les Escales Lyriques. In October 2024, she appeared alone on stage in the contemporary opera Goud! by Leonard Evers at La Monnaie.
More recently, she has also performed in L’Enfant et les Sortilèges by Maurice Ravel (the Cat, the Squirrel and the Shepherd) at the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen. She has sung the title role (L’Enfant) under the baton of Alain Altinoglu, as well as Lotte Zweig in the revival of Harold Noben’s opera À l’Extrême Bord du Monde, and Danae in the world premiere of Medusa by Iain Bell at La Monnaie.
Since September 2022, she has been an Artist in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, working under the guidance of Stéphane Degout, Sophie Koch and José van Dam. During her residency, she has taken part in numerous projects and concerts at the Chapel itself, as well as at venues such as Flagey and the Royal Palace of Brussels.
She has been an Associate Artist of the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel since 2026.
Last updated: 5 May 2026