French-American mezzo-soprano Valérie Filloux recently received her Masters of Music in Opera Performance from the Maryland Opera Studio, performing the roles of Paula (Florencia en el Amazonas), Nancy Waters (Albert Herring), and Florence Pike (Albert Herring) in her final year. Following her graduation, she completed her first summer with dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, performing in their Chansons de Baudelaire and Guilty Pleasures Cabaret concerts while covering Cissy and Emmy (Tickets, Please!). In the 24/25 season, she looks forward to making her professional and company debut with Opera Roanoke, reprising her role as Mrs. Grose in Britten’s Turn of the Screw, and covering Florence Pike in Baltimore Opera's Albert Herring. This summer she debuts as Annio (La clemenza di Tito) with dell'Arte Opera Ensemble and then joins the Seagle Music Festival, singing Miss Goodrich (Mayo) and Charity (Anything Goes) as well as covering the title role in Carmen. She will also be joining the Seagle Festival for the fall as one of their Fall Season Artists. 

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During her first year with the Maryland Opera Studio, she covered Zerlina (Don Giovanni), performed scenes as The Fox (The Little Prince) and Nerone (L'incoronazione di Poppea), and sang Younger Sister/Parent B in the world premiere of TWA by Justine F. Chen and Jaqueline Goldfinger. She was delighted to spend the following summer with the Janiec Opera Company at the Brevard Music Center, with whom she sang Mrs. Grose (Turn of the Screw), covered The Baker's Wife (Into the Woods), and performed as a soloist in the company's An Evening of George Gershiwin concert. She spent the previous summer with Aspen Music Festival, where she performed scenes from Little Women, L'italiana in Algeri, and Il barbiere di Siviglia; sang on several recitals and concerts; and devised and premiered a new work in collaboration with composer Gala Flagello as part of the Aspen Composition Project. 
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Valérie finished her undergraduate studies at Northwestern University in 2021, earning a Bachelor of Music in Voice & Opera with program honors along with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies. She competed as a Finalist in the Musicians Club of Women Competition and as a National Finalist in the National NSAL Winston Voice Scholarship Competition after winning the Illinois Division. In the summer of 2021, Valérie was thrilled to be a member of the Janiec Opera Company at the Brevard Music Center. She performed the roles of Zita and Spinellocchio in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi and sang as a soloist in the Opera Greatest Hits and Janiec on Broadway concerts.
 
During her time at Northwestern, Valérie performed Hansel in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel with Northwestern University’s OPUS and covered La récitante in Debussy’s La damoiselle élue. She also sang in multiple opera choruses (Berlioz’s Béatrice and Bénédict, Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, Debussy’s La damoiselle élue). Originally scheduled to perform The Angel in Rubenstein’s The Demon at the Russian Opera Workshop, she spent the summer of 2020 studying both The Angel (The Demon) and Olga in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin as part of the workshop’s modified Covid-19 program. She attended Redwoods Opera Workshop summer festival in June of 2019, performing scenes as Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro) and Dorabella (Così fan tutte) as well as arias in a concert at the Stanford Hotel in Mendocino, California. 

 An avid chamber musician, Valérie served as the Co-President to the Northwestern University Renaissance Singers, the university’s only classical a cappella group, who organized and hosted multiple concerts filled with large-scale works and new work premieres. She has performed as a mezzo-soprano soloist in Vivaldi’s Gloria (Trinity United Methodist Church choir with orchestra), the Duruflé Requiem (Northern Virginia Chorale), and Bach’s Du Friederfürst, Herr Jesu Christ (Maryland Bach Cantata Series). She made her debut with the Chicago chamber choir Stare at the Sun in their concert A Name and A Place. She served as a chorus member with the National Symphony Orchestra in their 2023 performance of Handel’s Messiah.

With seven years of violin experience and four years of viola experience, she enjoys applying her instrumental knowledge to her study of voice while privately teaching each instrument. She is a proud Californian, born and raised there by a French father and American mother.