Noted for “the depth of her timbre, the evenness of her voice, her breath control, and the emotional intensity of her singing” (Le Devoir), Rose Naggar-Tremblay began her musical training with piano and choral singing before turning to classical voice at the age of 12. She continued her studies at McGill University, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Vocal Performance with a minor in European Literature and Culture. Since 2020, she has studied under Lena Hellström-Färnlöf, Director of the Academy of Music and Opera at Mälardalen University.
During her residency with the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal (2017–2020), she was heard in productions including Svadba and Twenty-Seven. In 2021, she made a notable debut at the Sofia Opera in the role of Carmen. That same year, she won First Prize at the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Competition, First Prize at the Georges Enesco Competition in Paris, the Young Canadian Lyric Hope Award, and the Prize for Best Interpretation of a Canadian Work at the OSM Competition for Healing, a song cycle she co-composed with Éric Champagne.
In 2022, she was named Radio-Canada’s Classical Music Revelation (2022–2023), received Second Prize at the Prix d’Europe, and was awarded the prestigious Fernand Lindsay Career Grant. In 2024, she won Third Prize at the Sembrich International Competition and the Audience Prize at the Premiere Opera Foundation in New York.
An accomplished musician, she frequently lends her voice to chamber music, performing in numerous concerts and recitals under the baton of renowned conductors including Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Rafael Payare, Jean-Marie Zeitouni, Laurence Equilbey, Christophe Rousset, and Jacques Lacombe, as well as emerging conductors such as Simon Rivard, Francis Choinière, and Nicolas Ellis. She has recently appeared as soloist in Elgar’s Sea Pictures, C.P.E. Bach’s and Palmeri’s Magnificat, Handel’s Messiah, Vivaldi’s Dixit Dominus, the Requiems of Mozart, Verdi, and Duruflé, as well as numerous Bach cantatas.
In the 2023–2024 season, she made her debuts at the Opéra de Metz and Opéra de Reims as the Second Spirit (Rusalka), at the Bayerische Staatsoper as the Innkeeper (Boris Godunov), at the Capitole de Toulouse as the Voice from Above (Die Frau ohne Schatten), and at the Theater Erfurt as Erda (Das Rheingold), in addition to reprising the role of Carmen at Edmonton Opera. She also released her first EP of original songs, Je me souviens à toi, blending French chanson and chamber music, which led to a solo tour including an appearance at the Festival en chanson de Petite-Vallée and performances alongside Québec chanson legends Robert Charlebois and Paul Piché.
In 2025, she returns to the Capitole de Toulouse as Cesare in Giulio Cesare and makes her debuts at La Scala in Milan and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, performing Farnace in a concert version of Mozart’s Mitridate with Les Talens Lyriques. She joins the agency Concerts Parisiens and the label Arion, with whom she records her debut Handel album, released in November 2025. She concludes the year recording the role of Clytemnestra in Porpora’s Ifigenia in Aulidewith Les Talens Lyriques under Christophe Rousset.
