Young French mezzosoprano Katia Ledoux moved to
Austria as a child and grew up in a trilingual (French – English – German)
environment. When she was 6 years old, she started singing in the boys’ choir
Schubert Sängerknaben Wien in Vienna. In 2008, she received the first prize at
the Austrian Prima la Musica competition for young singers. One year later, she
was admitted at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. In 2016
she found her teacher Ulf Bästlein at the university of arts in Graz. Since
then, she has also become a laureate of the 2017 Feruccio Tagliavini
Competition, the 2018 awardee for the Bayreuth Grant as well as the first prize
winner of the Nordfriesischer Liedpreis. Since 2019, the mezzosoprano is a
member of the International Opera Studio in Zurich. During the season 2020/21
she was heard on the stage of the Zurich Opera House as the Innkeeper in
"Boris Godunov", Pipetta in "Viva la Mamma" and Suzuki in
"Madama Butterfly".<<cut>>
On stage, she has sung Maddalena in Verdi’s Rigoletto (Passion Opera Festival 2013), Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro by Mozart (Stadttheater Schaffhausen, Kammeroper Schönbrunn, Sommerserenaden Graz, Orangerie Schönbrunn, Palais Eschenbach, Casino Baumgarten, Stadttheater Wels), Zita in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi (Schlosstheater Schönbrunn, 2015), Nerone in L’incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi (2015), Ganymed in Die schöne Galathée by Suppé (2016), Dorabella in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, Mme de Croissy in Poulenc’s Les dialogues des carmélites and many more. In 2019, Katia Ledoux made her debut in Amsterdam as Geneviève in Pelléas et Mélisande at the Dutch National Opera, with the Concertgebouw Orchester conducted by Stéphane Denève and staged by Olivier Py.
In June 2017, she had her debut at the MUMUTh Graz as Frau von Luber in Der Silbersee by Kurt Weill under the baton of Dirk Kaftan. She debuted at the Oper Graz as the Mother in Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors and, in 2017, at the contemporary music festival Steirischer Herbst in the world premiere of the opera Electric Dreams by Matthew Shlomowitz. In spring 2014, Katia Ledoux was selected to perform the opera Brundibár by Hans Krása at a commemoration ceremony in the Austrian Parliament.
The multi-facetted mezzosoprano also gained a lot of experience in the world of spoken theatre through working at the renowned Festspiele Reichenau, being on stage with the biggest Austrian stars of the world of spoken theatre (Petra Morzé, Stephanie Dvorak, Martin Schwab – just to name a few) in the productions of 2016 and 2018.
While her heart really beats for opera, she has proven her fluency with Lied time and time again by being booked for concerts in Austria, France, Germany, Russia, Hong-Kong and the Netherlands. Her current Lied coach is Prof. Joseph Breinl, but she stays thankful to and influenced by all her former coaches, including Bernhard Adler, Rannveig Braga, Thilo Dahlmann, Julius Drake and Matthias Lademann.