Marie Devellereau, Moscow October 2011
Marie Devellereau (born 1971) [1] is a French light lyric operatic soprano.
Marie Devellereau (born 1971) [1] is a French light lyric operatic soprano.
Graduated from the Juilliard School, Devellereau was revealed to the general public by the "Voice Masters" of Monte-Carlo [2] which she won in 1997. [3]
The Opéra National de Paris welcomed her first major role - Sœur Constance - in Dialogues of the Carmelites , conducted by Seiji Ozawa, before finding her again in Parsifal , Peter Grimes , Don Carlos and Der Rosenkavalier as Sophie.
In 2001, Devellereau was a finalist at the Plácido Domingo Competition in Washington.
In her 20-year career, she has performed on numerous national and international stages. In France she sang at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Salle Pleyel, the Opéra National de Lyon, the Royal Opera of Versailles, the Cité de la Musique and the Chorégies d'Orange.
In Europe, she has appeared at La Scala in Milan, the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, the Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Salle des Princes Forum Grimaldi in Monaco, and at the Royal Concertgebouw of Amsterdam.
In the United States she was welcomed at the David Geffen Hall (New York), the San Francisco Opera, the Tanglewood Festival.
In the rest of the world, audiences greeted her at the Shanghai Opera, the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing among others.
Her clear and flexible tone suits the Anglo-Saxon repertoire. Composers such as Bernstein, [4] Argento, Britten, Barber reveal her brilliant and suave voice.
The soprano stands out by a clear diction and a singular and rare musicality in the French melodic repertoire of Debussy, Poulenc, [5] Fauré, Hahn, and Russian, in particular Rachmaninoff's music.
At the Opera, Devellereau, often described as a sparkling, mischievous and virtuoso singer, unveils the crystal of her high pitched voice mixed with play, expressiveness and vocal flexibility in libretti by Delibes, Massenet, Strauss, Britten and Honegger.
Devellereau has made a name for herself in the interpretation of the pieces by Offenbach. [6]
Her jovial, mischievous and iconoclastic spirit was also displayed with the Orchestre de Pau Pays de Béarn , conducted by chef Fayçal Karoui and directed by Jean Manifacier, at the New Year's concert. [7]
She also likes Oratorio and the concert repertoire, rich in works that correspond to her vocal range: Poulenc's Stabat mater and Gloria, Mozart's Great Mass in C minor, K. 427 and Requiem, Fauré's Requiem, Pergolesis' Stabat Mater, Haydn's Creation and the Saisons and Bach's St John Passion for Oratorio.
In concert, she was hailed in Benjamin Britten's Les Illuminations , Debussy's La Damoiselle élue and Le Martyre de saint Sébastien , Berg's Seven Early Songs , Szymanowski's Songs of a Fairy-Tale Princess Op. 31 (1933) and Gustav Mahler's symphonies.
She released several records accompanied by pianists Philippe Cassard and Cédric Tiberghien, [8] with whom she recorded Erik Satie's Je te veux for example. [9]
She also participates in research on the vocal range with Nicole Scotto di Carlo, [10] research director at the CNRS; published in Science & Vie .
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