Gaëlle Arquez

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Gaëlle Arquez (born in Saintes ) is a French opera singer with a mezzo-soprano voice .

life and work

Gaëlle Arquez graduated in musicology and studied singing at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris . Her teachers included Malcolm Walker, Kenneth Weiss, Jeff Cohen, and Susan McCulloch. In 2007 and 2008 she toured France with the title role in Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges . In 2009 she took over the title role in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen in a Conservatory production in Paris, which was then shown at the Théâtre Royal de Wallonie in Liège and at the Grand Théâtre de Reims . She has won a number of prizes and grants, including the 2009 Prix ​​de Chant du Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris .

Opera

Her repertoire focuses on the one hand on baroque music, on the other hand on the classical French repertoire - from Lully and Rameau to Berlioz , Gounod , Offenbach and Bizet to Debussy and Messiaen . The singer is also known as a Mozart interpreter and occasionally undertakes “excursions” into the German, Italian and Czech repertoire.

She sang at the Opéra de Lille , the Opéra national de Lorraine in Nancy, the Opéra de Lausanne and the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, the Opéra de Saint-Etienne , the Opéra de Dijon , the Opéra national de Bordeaux and the Opéra royal de Versailles , several times at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels and finally in Paris. In 2013 she made her debut at the Opéra Bastille and has since sung at this house in Monteverdi , Mozart and Verdi roles. This year Arquez also made a guest appearance at the Ópera Nacional de Chile in Santiago de Chile .

In 2013 she also made her first appearances in German-speaking countries - as Medea in Handel's Teseo at the Frankfurt Opera and as Idamante in Mozart's Idomeneo at the Theater an der Wien , staged by Damiano Michieletto. In Frankfurt she continues to sing, including the title roles in Carmen and Serse and the role of Mélisande . In 2015 she took on the title role in Offenbach's La Belle Hélène at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris . In the same year she made her debut at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and in 2016 at the Komische Oper in Berlin. On October 16, 2016 she made her debut at the Vienna State Opera , in the title role of a new production of Gluck's Armide , sung in the original French version, staged and equipped by a French team, composed of Ivan Alexandre (director), Pierre-André Weitz (set) and Bertrand Killy (light). The Musiciens du Louvre from Grenoble played, conducted by Marc Minkowski . The audience and the press reacted enthusiastically, the performance of the singer - both acting and vocally - was praised. In summer 2017 she sang the title role in Carmen on the lake stage in Bregenz .

concert

In the concert hall, Arquez particularly stands out with recitals and as a specialist in works by Olivier Messiaen . She has given recitals at the Teatro Marcello in Rome, the Salle Pleyel in Paris and the Louvre , at the Festival de Beaune and the Festival Messiaen in Pays de la Meine; there in 2012 at the invitation of Pierre Boulez . She also sang in Villers-sur-Mer and Monfort l'Amaury , in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse and Karlsruhe as well as at the Musashimo Cultural Foundation in Tokyo .

Arquez has u. a. Sung under the musical direction of Pierre Boulez , René Jacobs , Philippe Jordan and Yann Molénat .

Roles (selection)

Bizet :

Cherubini :

Debussy :

Luck :

Gounod :

Handel :

Humperdinck :

Janáček :

Lully :

 

Massenet :

Monteverdi :

Mozart :

Offenbach :

Rameau :

Ravel :

Rossini :

Verdi :

Recordings

Awards

  • 2006: Bourses Musicales of the Zonta Club de France
  • 2007: Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe Competition
  • 2009: Prix ​​de Chant du Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris
  • 2009: Wigmore Hall Independent Opera Voice Fellowship

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Medici.tv: Gaëlle Arquez - mezzo-soprano , accessed on October 16, 2016.
  2. ↑ ResMusica: Cendrillon à Lille: Moderne et intemporelle , May 25, 2012, accessed on October 16, 2016.
  3. ↑ Komische Oper Berlin: Gaëlle Arquez, Mezzo-Soprano ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 16, 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.komische-oper-berlin.de
  4. ↑ Peter Jarolin: "Armide" in the State Opera: Disenchanted Sorceress , in: Kurier (Vienna), October 17, 2016, accessed on October 19, 2016.
  5. ↑ Ljubiša Tošić: "Armide": A cage full of love warriors. Der Standard (Vienna), October 17, 2016, accessed on October 19, 2016.
  6. ↑ Walter Weidringer: Orgies of loveliness in shades of rust and gold. Die Presse (Vienna), October 17, 2016, accessed on October 19, 2016.
  7. ^ Austria press agency : Homoerotic gimmick: "Armide" premiere in the State Opera. Quote here. According to Salzburger Nachrichten , October 17, 2016, accessed on October 19, 2016
  8. ↑ Eleonore Büning: "Carmen" on the lake stage. A spray of water ballet. Frankfurter Allgemeine, July 22, 2017, accessed on August 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Arquez, Gaëlle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French opera singer (mezzo-soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH France