American mezzo-soprano Avery Amereau has rapidly drawn international attention for her remarkably rich sound and commanding stage presence. Praised for her “rapturous lyricism,” she is equally in demand across the top opera houses and orchestras of the US and Europe.

In the 2026/27 season, she makes several significant role debuts, including as Orphée in Pina Bausch’s Orphée et Eurydice and Ino in Semele at the Bayerische Staatsoper, as well as Lichas in Hercules in her return to the Royal Ballet and Opera. In concert, she makes debuts as Dido in Dido and Aeneas with Boston Baroque (Lionel Meunier), Dejanira in Hercules with Opera Fuoco at Theater an der Wien (David Stern), and with Il Pomo d’Oro on a US tour of Dido and Aeneas as Sorceress (Maxim Emelyanychev).

Also in concert, Amereau makes debuts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Bernstein’s Symphony No. 1 (Daniel Harding), Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra in Handel’s Messiah (Richard Egarr), and the Ann Arbor Symphony in Mozart’s Requiem and Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody (Earl Lee). She joins the Youth Music Culture: Greater Bay Area program on tour with Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 (Harding) across China and Hong Kong and appears with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra for the opening of its 2026/27 season in performances of Elgar’s Sea Pictures (Emelyanychev).

In 2022, Amereau made her house and role debut as Dorabella in a new production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte conducted by Vladimir Jurowski for the Bayerische Staatsoper, later joining the ensemble in Munich starting in the 2023/24 season. Other operatic highlights include her house debut at the Royal Ballet and Opera as Olga in a new production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, the title role in Bizet’s Carmen with the Jacksonville Symphony, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro with Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Didon in Les Troyens and Marguerite in La damnation de Faust with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, and Serena Joy in Ruders’ The Handmaid’s Tale for English National Opera.

Recent concert engagements include Elgar’s Sea Pictures with The Cleveland Orchestra (Harding), her Tanglewood Festival debut singing Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (Dima Slobodeniouk), Mozart’s Requiem with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Manfred Honeck), and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Swedish Radio Orchestra (Harding), among many others.

Amereau’s first solo album of Handel arias with Nicholas McGegan and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, selected as an Editor’s Choice by Gramophone magazine, was released in 2020 to critical acclaim.