Lucie Cure is a French/British mezzo-soprano, composer, performer and vocal coach, based in Copenhagen.
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Her artistic practice bridges classical singing and explorations of vocal expression, intertwining composition and performance to engage with the ecological and emotional urgencies of our time. Frequently performing outdoors, Lucie and her collaborators work in dialogue with audiences, sometimes inviting them to sing, and with landscapes, allowing each place to shape the music and its unfolding. Her compositions often give voice to the more-than-human through hybrid soundscapes and take many forms, sometimes centred on the voice alone, other times expanding into electronics, pre-recorded choir, field recordings, collective singing, chamber textures, drones, and both industrial and natural sounds.
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Lucie has performed her compositions in a wide range of artistic contexts: Invoking Melpomene at Les Beaux-Arts de Paris, Undulations at Distortion, Plastic Mermaids at Soho House Copenhagen, And the Needle Was a Golden Key and Infinite Pollination by Cecilia Fiona at Chart Art Fair 2025 and Andersens Contemporary, We at Riverside Studios and Muse of Peaks with the Rothko Ensemble part of Treephonia at Ilex Studio in London. In close collaboration with and under the direction of Madeleine Kate McGowan, she co-composed and performed What is the Value of a Bird Song? and its variation Bird Opera, an adaptation of ten red-listed birds’ songs, performed across Metropolis Performing Landscapes, Sydhavn Theater, Thoravej29, BLOXHUB, Sct. Hans Have, and the Danish Architecture Center. Lucie also co-created the artistic direction duo Neo-Mythology with Yoanna Bochowski, envisioning performances where mythological deities confront today’s climate crisis. Together with Leïla Belangeon Bouaziz, she forms Lueurs Nocturnes, a musical duo at the intersection of concrete music, experimental noise, lyrical singing, and poetry.
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As a performer, Lucie appeared in Solastalgia, both its 48-hour immersive version at Sort/Hvid Theater and its large-scale landscape vocal piece at Sydhavnstippen (produced by Sort/Hvid and Metropolis), as well as in Book of Songs at the Helsingør Passage Festival and Metropolis Landscapes, all directed by Madeleine Kate McGowan.
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As a mezzo-soprano, Lucie has interpreted leading roles in operas by Mozart, Verdi, Poulenc, Bizet, Ravel, Offenbach, Chabrier, Pergolesi, and Purcell and has sung in choirs as an alto with Le Jeune Chœur de Paris and le Chœur de la Sorbonne. As a choir conductor, she has led rehearsal with À Bout de Souffle and helps facilitate Solas choir, singing while moving as grief, joy, resistance, stabilizing nervous systems & resonance in union of song, created by Madeleine Kate McGowan. Lucie earned her Master of Music in Performance in July 2022 from the Royal College of Music in London, where she studied under the guidance of Sally Burgess. She has been honored with notable scholarships, including "Their Serene Highnesses Dr Prince Donatus and Princess Heidi Von Hohenzollern Scholar" and "Bruce-Payne Vaseppi Scholar". Her voice serves as a tool to portray characters from both traditional opera and contemporary performance, all in the service of catharsis, emotion, intention and connection. Lucie investigates with her collaborators & the audience on the universal power of emotion and creativity in the face of contemporary challenges. ​​​
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“waves of ways and beings, waves of thousand meanings, re-emerging ways of thinking, gathering, acting, performing. Protesting. Protecting.” - L.Cure
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In summer 2025, Lucie is touring with Bird Opera with Madeleine Kate McGowan, as part of Performing Landscapes, produced by Metropolis. She will perform her composition for Cecilia Fiona's And the needle was the golden key during Chart Art Fair and play the role of the Business man's shadow in Is that all there is? by coping like Cassandra at Sidste mole. She will compose and perform The Rites of Wreckage and Waste, a site-specific performative parade taking place during the KIN Festival in September 2025 at Thorvaldsens Museum and at Sydhavnstippen. The project is presented by Sydhavn Teater in collaboration with Brazilian artist Rodrigo Andreolli and Lasse Mouritzen.