Trained in classical singing and acting, Michèle Larivière is the producer of key musical programmes for Radio France, including Mémoires retrouvées de Nicolaï Gedda, Leopold Simoneau, Suzanne Danco, Ileana Cotrubas and Peter Ustinov (France musique), and portraits of Alfred Bruneau, Wolf-Ferrari, Maurice Ohana, Renaud Gagneux and Yves Prin (France culture). As a performer and actor, she created Alfred Bruneau, un granc cœur, Psaume pour Nako by Yves Prin, and has just interpreted the role of Princess Aristione in Les Amants Magnifiques by Molière and Lully at the Gstaad New Year Music Festival (2022), where she is the Artistic Advisor.
She was a presenter on Mezzo TV from 1999 to 2002 and has been a pre-concert host at the Verbier Festival since 1995. As a lecturer, she performs in France in the greatest halls, Châtelet, Operas of Paris, Nancy, Tours, Nantes, UTL of La Rochelle or Cannes (Pushkin, a Black Russian, the Thousand and One Nights, Mozart and women… ) as well as in Aix-Les-Bains (2021) for « Rendre Notre-Dame de Paris au monde », a conference-concert in support of the restoration of Notre-Dame de Paris with Philippe Villeneuve, the chief architect in charge of its restoration and the Société des Membres de la Légion d’honneur de Savoie.
Author-director of documentaries for Arte, Mezzo and France 2, she signed with Don Kent, Les pianos de l’été, and with Gérald Caillat, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Une Trilogie de Monteverdi, Coline Serreau répète Rossini, La Péniche Opéra, Le Manuscrit disparu, Le Concours de Musique, and OMO BELLO, I want to be a prima donna and for the Péniche Théâtre-Opéra, Divertir en honnête homme with Yves Coudray, Rencontre avec Jean-Claude Pennetier or Portrait Lyrique de Yves Prin.
President of the Péniche-Opéra from 2014 to 2016, Michèle Larivière has just been promoted to Chevalier des Arts et Lettres.