Michelle Mallinger
Michelle Mallinger earned her Bachelor of Arts in Vocal Performance at San José State University (USA). Subsequently, she studied at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, where she completed her bachelor's degrees in choral conducting and solo singing. She also obtained her postgraduate diploma at the Operastudio Vlaanderen in Ghent in 2006.
In 2018, she obtained a Bachelor of Science in Speech Therapy, followed by a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Amsterdam in 2023. Her regular singing teacher is soprano Nelly Miricioiu.
As an opera singer, Michelle has performed roles including Dido (Purcell, Dido and Aeneas), La Messagera (Monteverdi, Orfeo), Venus (John Blow, Venus and Adonis, including Baroque dance and gestures) and Béatrice (Berlioz, Béatrice et Bénédict). She was a finalist in the Concours International de Chant Baroque de Chimay (2004) and reached the semi-finals of both the Brunnenthaler Competition for Early Music (Austria, 2007) and the Spazio Musica Competition in Orvieto (2008). In 2007, she performed the title role in Rossini's La Cenerentola at the Hamburger Kammeroper (52 performances). In 2010, she made her debut at the Concertgebouw with music by Lotichius and made her ensemble debut with De Nederlandse Opera in the production A Dog’s Heart. In collaboration with director Hans Nieuwenhuis, she performed Poulenc’s monodrama La voix humaine in 2016, in the Netherlands and Muscat (Oman).
In addition to her singing career, Michelle was a singing teacher at the Music Institute of the St. Bavo Choir School in Haarlem for over twelve years. She currently teaches American English at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and is training to become a Physician Assistant specializing in voice and throat disorders at the ENT department of the OLVG-West hospital. She is also co-founder of the La Voix Foundation in Haarlem.