Born in Saguenay, Québec, Canadian coloratura soprano Marie-Eve Munger enjoys a flourishing career in both North America and Europe.  She earned a global reputation for her "disarmingly easy coloratura... always preserving the warmth of the timbre" (Opéra Magazine) and her strong stage presence - "she stole the show" (The Washington Post).

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Plans for 2024-25 include to title role in Auber’s Manon Lescaut at Teatro Regio Torino, Blondchen à l'Opéra de St-Étienne, a return as Tytania in Laurent Pelly’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at l'Opéra de Lausanne. She also sings Strauss’s Vier Letzte Lieder with l'Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, and performs the programme for her album Maestrino Mozart with Les Boréades.

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Recent performances include la Baronne in La Vie Parisienne at Festival d'Opéra de Québec, Adèle in Laurent Pelly’s new production of Die Fledermaus for l'Opéra de Lille, Adina in l'Elisir d'Amore at Florentine Opera (Milwaukee), and notable debuts as le Rossignol in the French première of Walter Braunfels’ Die Vögel at l'Opéra National du Rhin, as Tytania in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Opéra de Lille, the title role in Handel’s Theodora, in concert Trinity Wall Street in New York City and at Caramoor Festival, the title role in Auber’s Domino Noir at l'Opéra de Lausanne, la Fée in Cendrillon at Lyric Opera of Chicago and l'Opéra de Limoges, as well as the Countess in Le Comte Try and Donna Elvira at l'Opéra de Toulon.

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Previous engagements include performances at Teatro alla Scala, Barcelona's Liceu, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence production, La Monnaie in Boesmans/Pommerat's Pinocchio, Opéra de Marseille in My Fair Lady, Opéra de Montréal in Roméo et Juliette, Munich's Bayericher Rundfunks in Lakmé and l'Enfant et les Sortilèges, Opéra de Lausanne for Ariadne auf Naxos and My Fair Lady, Chicago Symphony Orchestra in L'Enfant et les Sortilèges, as Ophélia in Hamlet Angers-Nantes Opera, Opéra de Toulon for the Countess in Rossini's Le Comte Ory, and l’Opéra Comique, Paris, in Le Pré aux Clercs, Fantasio and La Bohème.

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She has also performed roles such as Zerbinetta, Gilda, Juliette, Lakmé and Ophélie at Gotham Chamber Opera, Minnesota Opera, Opera Carolina, Florentine Opera, Virginia Opera, Toledo Opera Théâtre du Châtelet, Opéra de Tours et Opéra-Théâtre de Metz, Opéra de Dijon, Opéra de Lilles, Opéra de Rennes, Opéra de Montréal and Opéra de Marseille, BBC Proms, Wexford Festival Opera.

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Also at home with contemporary music, she created the Fairy in Boesmans/Pommerat's Pinocchio for Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, La Monnaie de Munt and Opéra de Dijon, and the role of La Colorature in Frédéric Verrières's The Second Woman at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris, and participated in world premières by composers such as Gérard Pesson, Mauro Lanza and Julian Wachner. Paradis Perdu by Régis Campo was commissioned for her by Montréal Symphony Orchestra and Kent Nagano.

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She released her first album Colorature in 2014, to critical acclaim. Maestrino Mozart, her solo recording with Les Boréades de Montréal of Mozart’s early opera arias was released in 2022.

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Marie-Eve Munger earned her master's degree from the Schulich School of Music at McGill University.  She won first prize at the Marmande International Voice Competition in 2007 and won the Choquette-Symcox award from the Jeunesses Musicales du Canada in 2012.

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Now based between Paris and the Vendée, she was in 2024 appointed as General director of Opéra du Royaume in Saguenay, which she manages with her husband, the British director John La Bouchardière, in parallel with her ongoing international singing career. When not on stage, outdoorsy Marie-Eve is an avid gardener, a budding sailor and the mother of a wonderful boy.