French-American mezzo-soprano Valérie Filloux has been noted for her "impressive chest register," "playful wit and charm." This season she looks forward to a role and house debut as Despina (Così fan tutte) with Loudoun Lyric Opera and a role debut as Mercédès (Carmen) with L'Opéra Comique de Washington. On the concert stage, she returns to the mezzo-soprano solo in the Duruflé Requiem.

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In the 2025/26 season, she sang Charity (Anything Goes) and Miss Goodrich (Mayo) and covered the title role in Carmen with Seagle Music Festival, then spent the fall with Seagle as a Fall Season Artist. She also returned to Northern Virginia Chorale as Mezzo/Alto Soloist in Saint-Saëns' Oratorio de Noël, Bel Cantanti Opera as a soloist in their Russian Opera Gala, and Brevard Music Center as the Alto Soloist in Handel's Messiah. On the operatic stage, she performed the Page of Herodias (Salome) with West Bay Opera, Griselda (The Snow Queen) with Bel Cantanti Opera, and the leading pants role of Lazuli in Chabrier's L'étoile with L'Opera Comique de Washington. Additional recent performances include Mrs. Grose (Turn of the Screw) with Opera Roanoke, Florence Pike cover (Albert Herring) with Opera Baltimore, and Annio (La clemenza di Tito) with dell'Arte Opera Ensemble.

 

A recent graduate of the University of Maryland Opera Studio, she performed Paula (Florencia en el Amazonas), Nancy (Albert Herring), and Florence Pike (Albert Herring) on the mainstage, and she sang Younger Sister/Parent B in the premiere of Justine F. Chen and Jaqueline Goldfinger's TWA. She has spent summers with the dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, Aspen Music Festival, and the Janiec Opera Company at the Brevard Music Center, with whom her assignments have included Zita (Gianni Schicchi), Mrs. Grose (Turn of the Screw), The Baker's Wife (cover, Into the Woods), several recitals and multi-genre concerts, and a new work in collaboration with Gala Flagello as part of the Aspen Composition Project. She completed her undergraduate studies at Northwestern University, earning a Bachelor of Music in Voice & Opera with department honors along with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies.