Originally from Marseille, Lucie Roche studied singing at the city's Conservatory before attending the CNIPAL (former postgraduate opera training centre).

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Soon after, she started a career singing such French roles as Carmen (South Korea), Dulcinée from Don Quichotte, Nicklausse / La Muse from Les Contes d’Hoffmann and Stéphano from Roméo et Juliette (Saint-Etienne), Geneviève from Pélleas et Mélisande (Neuchâtel), Clarice from Love for Three Oranges (Bonn, Dijon, Nancy and Limoges), The Mother, The Chinese Cup and The Dragonfly from L’Enfant et les Sortilèges (Aix-en-Provence Festival, Angers and Nantes), Venus from Orphée aux Enfers (Angers and Nantes), Soeur Mathilde and Mère Jeanne from Dialogues des Carmélites (Bologna, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Marseille) and eventually debuted the role of Madame de Croissy in the same opera. She sang Madame Prune from Madame Chrysanthème (Marseille). She took part in the re-creation of Les Amants Magnifiques by Molière / Lully on tour with the Concert Spirituel.

 

In the German repertoire, she sang Waltraute and Grimgerde from Die Walküre (Geneva, Marseille), Dryade from Ariadne auf Naxos (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Opéra National de Lorraine), a Flower-Maid from Parsifal (Nice), Die Erste Magd from Elektra (Marseille), Die Dritte Dame from Die Zauberflöte (Toulon and Marseille), Klementia from Sancta Susanna by Hindemith (Forbidden Music Festival).

 

She was also heard as Olga from Evgeny Onegin (Rennes), Madame Flora from The Medium (Sédières Festival), Alisa from Lucia di Lammermoor and Marie from Moïse et Pharaon (Marseille), Federica from Luisa Miller (Angers, Nantes and Rennes), Maddalena from Rigoletto (Toulon) and took part in the scenic re-creation of L’Oristeo by Cavalli with the Concerto Soave.

 

In the contemporary field, she took part in the world-premiere of The Monster in the Maze by Jonathan Dove at the Aix-en-Provence Festival conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, Colomba by Jean-Claude Petit in Marseille and Evariste Galois by Fabio Barcelo with the Avignon Orchestra.

 

Concert-wise, she regularly sings the Knaben Wunderhorn by Mahler, L’Amour Sorcier by De Falla, Elijah by Mendelssohn, the Missa Solemnis by Beethoven, the Requiem by Duruflé, the Little Solemn Mass and the Stabat Mater by Rossini, the Requiem and the Coronation Mass by Mozart, the Gloria and Dixit Dominus by Vivaldi, the Stabat Mater by Pergolesi, the Messiah and the Dixit Dominus by Haendel, The Seven Last Words of Christ by Haydn, La Vierge by Massenet, Verdi Requiem.

 

During season 2024-2025, she sings Hippolyta from Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream in Lausanne and takes part in the concert series "Ça va mieux en le chantant" in the operas in Angers and Nantes.