Brigitte Fournier

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Brigitte Fournier (born 14 June 1961) is a Swiss soprano singer known in Valais for her skills in lyric opera. Her voice, described as a lyric soprano, is best suited to composers such as Mozart and Richard Strauss [1] [2] [3]

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Life and career

Fournier was born in Sion. She studied at the conservatory of Bern in the class of Jakob Stämpfli, where she obtained a teaching diploma in singing in 1983. [1] She continued her education at the Folkwang Universität of Essen in Germany. [1] She then studied at the Lausanne Conservatory with Juliette Bise, where she obtained her first prize in virtuosity in 1987. [1] She completed her training at the Biel Opera School and obtained her first role in 1987 as Naiade in Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss at the Théâtre municipal and at the Lausanne Opera. [1]

From 1988 to 1990, she was hired by the Opéra de Lyon [4] She played Rosina in The Barber of Seville by Rossini and Norina in Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti. [4] Her interpretation of Sister Constance in Les Dialogues des Carmelites by Francis Poulenc was recorded in 1989–1990. [5] Back in Switzerland in 1999, she played the roles of Blondchen in Die Entführung aus dem Serail by Mozart and Sophie in Werther by Jules Massenet at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. [6] [7] In 2000–2001, at the Lausanne Opéra, she performed Speranza and Ninfa in L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi conducted by Dominique Meyer. [8] and sings in The Rape of Lucrece by Benjamin Britten and Lucio Silla by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in various recitals with another Valaisan, Brigitte Balleys. [9] She then became a singing teacher at the Sion conservatory. [10]

Discography

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  2. ↑ Dominique Rosset (December 1990). "Deux sœurs d'Opéra". L'Hebdo (in French): 93–94. Archived from 8801 DEFAULT&search=KEYWORD&searchi the original on 2017-06-06. Retrieved 2021-03-28.{{cite journal}}: Check |url= value (help)
  3. ↑ [Fournier, Anne: Brigitte Fournier, in Kotte, Andreas (Ed.): Dictionnaire du théâtre en Suisse, Chronos Verlag Zurich 2005, vol. 1, pp. 617–618 "Fournier Brigitte"]. Dictionnaire du théâtre en suisse (in French). 2005. Retrieved 27 March 2021.{{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  4. 1 2 "Brigitte Fournier". radio swiss classic (in French). 1 January 2017. Archived from the original on 2 April 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  5. ↑ "Brigitte Fournier". discogs (in French). 1 January 1992. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  6. ↑ "l'enlèvement au sérail". grand théatre de Genève (in French). 1995–1996. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  7. ↑ "Le Nouveau Quotidien - 19 December 1996 - Page 1". www.letempsarchives.ch. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  8. ↑ "Brigitte Fournier". theaterlexikon (in French). 6 December 2011. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  9. ↑ "Brigitte Fournie". Theaterlexikon (in French). 6 December 2011. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  10. ↑ "conservatoire de Sion". conservatoire de Sion (in French). 1 January 2016. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  11. ↑ "Brigitte Fournier". bibliothèque nationale de France (in French). 7 February 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
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