Originating from Quebec city, Marianne Fiset is a young soprano with a promising future. She won the Prix Opus de la Découverte de l'année (2006-2007 season); she is artist in residence at Radio-Canada for 2008.
Recently, she was nominated as Young Soloist of 2008 by the Public French speaking Radios (Radio France - Radio Suisse-Romande - RTBF Belgique - Radio-Canada). In May 2007, she won the First Prize of the Montreal International Music Competition, the Jean A. Chalmers prize for best
Canadian artist, the Joseph Rouleau prize for best artist from Quebec, the Prix Poulenc for French melodies as well as the Prix du Public.

In June 2007, thanks to the Prix Joseph-Rouleau and the Quebec delegations in London and Paris, Marianne Fiset made her debut in Europe with a recital at St-John's Smith Square in London and at the Palais du Luxembourg in Paris. In June 2007, she participated in the Luna concert at the Luminato Festival in Toronto. She is among the few recipients of the Fondation Jacqueline Desmarais bursary in 2007 and 2008 and of the Fondation des Jeunesses Musicales in 2005, 2006 and 2007. In November 2006, she won Second Prize ex-aequo in addition to the Orford Arts Centre prize at the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal Competition. Winner of the Auditions Nationales
Jeunes Artistes de Radio-Canada, she recorded a recital which was aired on Espace Musique in the winter of 2007.

In September 2007, Marianne Fiset was invited by Vancouver Opera to take part in YACIN: their Young Artist's coaching program with Carol Isaac (San Francisco Opera). In August 2006, she took part in the Canadian Vocal Art's Institute workshop and collaborated with maestri Julius Rudel, Paul Nadler, Joan Dornemann, Cesar Ulloa and Denise Massé. She was selected in May 2006 to take part in the prestigious Cleveland Art Song Festival where she studied Russian, French and German repertoire with Vladimir Chernov and Warren Jones. In March 2004, she obtained Premier Prix and the Prix Étoile Galaxie of Radio-Canada at the Orchestre Symphonique de Trois-Rivières competition. Subsequently, in November 2004, she won the Bourse d'Excellence of Quebec city, a distinction granted to the most promising artists of the city.

In 2005, she made her debuts with l'Opéra de Montréal in the role of Adza in the production of l'Étoile, by Chabrier and Miss Jessel with the Atelier Lyrique in their production of Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw. In l'Opéra de Montréal's 2006-2007 season, she took on the role of suor Dolcina in Suor Angelica, Amante in Il Tabarro, Annina in La Traviata and Clarice in the production of Atelier Lyrique's Il mondo della Luna by Haydn. Marianne Fiset was a member of the Atelier Lyrique de l'Opéra de Montréal between 2005 and 2007.

She just launched her first recording under the Analekta label.

Marianne Fiset will soon make her debut with l'Opéra de Marseille in the role of Donna Elvira.

« Elle nous vient de Québec, où la lumineuse séduction de son timbre de soprano a déjà fait des ravages : Marianne Fiset est l'une des jeunes voix avec qui il faut désormais compter. »
Michel Debrocq, Le Soir (Bruxelles), 3 avril 2008

"She has a subtantial lyric soprano of exceptional beauty, backed by a solid technique, musicality and communicative power. » Joseph So, Opera Canada (Canada), octobre 2007

" ... une cantatrice aguerrie, à la voix saine, franche et généreuse, une voix pleine, sans complexes et naturellement puissante... Il est incroyable de constater à quel point Marianne Fiset, portée par la musique, se transforme et rayonne... "Catherine Scholler, ResMusica (Paris), 3 juillet 2007

"Marianne Fiset, Grand Prize winner of the recent Montreal International Musical Competition, sang a scene from La Bohème in a clear, beautifully placed soprano..." Robert Everett-Green, Globe and Mail (Toronto), 13 juin 2007