Emmanuelle de Negri

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Emmanuelle de Negri is a French soprano who sings mainly baroque music and works closely with the conductor William Christie .

education

After studying the cello , de Negri entered the Conservatoire de Nîmes , where she studied singing with Daniel Salas . At the same time she took acting lessons and studied literature at the University of Montpellier . From September 2002 she continued her studies with Gerda Hartmann at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris . She received impulses for her interpretation of early music from Kenneth Weiss and Nicolau di Figuereido . During her training, she sang the Cupidon in Offenbach's Orphée aux enfers and the Miles in Britten's The Turn of the Screw . She also attended song courses with Anne Grappotte, Hartmut Höll and Jeff Cohen. In 2006 de Negri graduated with distinction and the first prize Félicitations du Jury . She completed post-graduate studies with Susan Manoff and Olivier Reboul.

career

She made her debut with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Glasgow and Edinburgh as Yniold in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande . Her next operatic roles were Tonina in Salieri's Prima la musica e poi le parole in Paris, Elena and Aura in Cavalli's Ercole amante , Serpetta and Despina in Mozart's La finta giardiniera and Così fan tutte , as well as Oberto in Handel's Alcina and Clorinda in Rossinis La Cenerentola .

The artist has been working together for many years with William Christie , under whose direction she appeared in Purcell's Fairy Queen at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence . In 2009 Emanuelle de Negri sang in an international concert series dedicated to Purcell with Christie's Les Arts Florissants .

In 2008 she played the title role of Pasquinis Martirio de Sant'Agnese at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music , and in 2009 as Cupidon at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. Since then the artist has appeared several times at the Paris Opéra-Comique and at the Theater an der Wien , in Caen, Bordeaux, Beaune, Besançon and Versailles, Amsterdam, Washington and New York.

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SURNAME Negri, Emmanuelle de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soprano
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century