Australian mezzo-soprano Fleuranne Brockway has been awarded first prize in the 23rd Concours musical international de Montréal (CMIM).

Named Grand Laureate, she takes home a suite of prizes worth more than $80,000 AUD, including a cash prize of $30,000 CAD ($33,631 AUD), the Joseph Rouleau Career Development Grant ($44,842 AUD) and the Opéra de Montréal Aria Prize ($5,605 AUD).

Theodore Platt, Fleuranne Brockway and Junho Hwang. Photo © of Concours musical international de Montréal.

Now based in Frankfurt, Brockway is a graduate of the University of Western Australia and London’s Royal College of Music.

In 2018, she was awarded the German Australia Opera Grant and relocated to Germany where she joined the solo ensemble of the Staatstheatre Wiesbaden and has performed roles including Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Wellgunde and Rossweisse (Der Ring des Nibelungen), Maddalena (Rigoletto) and the titular Carmen. She has also performed with Opera Frankfurt, Staatstheare Saarbrücken and at the Bregenz Festival.

In 2022, Brockway won the Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Award. She was also the recipient of the Dame Heather Begg Memorial Award, a travel and tuition scholarship worth $25,000. She has also received scholarships from the...