Celine Scheen

Celine Scheen (born March 15, 1976 in Verviers ) is a Belgian soprano .

Life

Celine Scheen, who grew up in Plombières , took part in rehearsals with her parents at the local church choir, which her father led, at the age of five. As a teenager she attended the Conservatory in Verviers, where she studied flute and singing. Her childhood dream was to become a French chanson or rock singer. In Verviers she began taking singing lessons with Annie Frantz. From 1996 she attended the Royal Conservatory of Mons , where she received first prizes in the subjects of concert and opera singing in the class of Marcel Vanaud . She then continued her studies at the Brussels Conservatory .

Celine Scheen was a member of the World Youth Choir from 1994 to 1996 and toured Latin America, Canada, Estonia, Lithuania, Finland and Sweden with him.

In 1998 she received the “Nany Philippart” scholarship and was able to continue her studies at the Brussels Chapelle musicale Reine Elisabeth. She then attended the Guildhall School of Music in London with Vera Rosza for two years , who convinced her to devote herself to early music. She also attended master classes with Jean-Paul Fouchécourt , Monique Zanetti and Helmut Deutsch .

Act

She gained fame in 1999 when she collaborated with Musica Antiqua Köln under Reinhard Goebel for Deutsche Grammophon on a highly acclaimed recording for Gérard Corbiau's film Le Roi Danse .

Since then she has participated in many opera productions, for example in the roles of Lucy in The Telephone, or L'Amour à trois by Gian Carlo Menotti , Thérèse in Les mamelles de Tirésias by Francis Poulenc , as Frasquita in Carmen by Georges Bizet , in Mozart's Magic Flute , as Grilletta in Lo Speziale by Joseph Haydn , as Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni or as Philonoé in Lully's Bellérophon . Under the direction of René Jacobs they could be heard in the Monnaie Theater in Brussels in Gluck's Alceste , Cavalli's Eliogabalo and Mozart's Magic Flute .

As a concert singer she appeared in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana , the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré , the Coronation Mass by Mozart, and Bach's St. John Passion on. The ensembles with which she worked include the Musica Antiqua Köln, Il Fondamento, the Ricercar Consort under Philippe Pierlot , the Clematis Ensemble founded by Stéphanie de Failly under Leonardo García Alarcón , as well as his Capella Mediterranea, the "Ensemble La Fénice" under Jean Tubéry , the La Cetra Barockorchester Basel under Andrea Marcon and Le Concert des Nations under Jordi Savall . From 2010 onwards she worked for several years with Christophe Rousset and his ensemble Les Talens Lyriques on concert and opera productions. Numerous concerts followed in 2016, including in several German cities with the Ensemble L'Arpeggiata under Christina Pluhar , a collaboration that continued beyond 2017, including concerts in several European countries, New Zealand and in New York's Carnegie Hall .

Web links

Celine Scheen at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Celine Scheen at Bach Cantatas (English)
2. ↑ Report by the Belgian broadcaster RTBF (accessed on October 12, 2016)
3. ↑ Brief curriculum vitae on Styriarte.com  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed June 2, 2013)  
4. ↑ Curriculum vitae on Bachwoche.de (accessed on June 2, 2013)
5. ↑ Allegorica Opera Management: Curriculum vitae on the website of your agency ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.