Julie Fuchs

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Julie Fuchs, 2016

Julie Fuchs (born July 24, 1984 in Meaux ) is a French opera, lied and concert singer ( soprano ).

biography

Born in Meaux, France, the daughter of a manager and a swimming instructor, she grew up in Avignon , where she began taking violin lessons at the age of 7. As a teenager she studied violin at the Avignon Conservatory and from the age of 18 she studied singing and acting. In 2006 she moved to the Paris Conservatory in the class of Robert Dumé and later Alain Buet and graduated in 2010 with a Premier Prix.

Since then she has appeared in numerous roles in the lyric soprano field on French stages and later in other countries. In the concert hall she was u. a. with Mozart's Mass in C minor and songs by Debussy , Fauré and Poulenc .

From 2013 to 2015 Julie Fuchs was among the ensemble of the Zurich Opera House and presented amongst others, roles in operas of the baroque and the Viennese classics . At the December 11, 2017, she sang at the funeral of Johnny Hallyday in Paris Ave Maria by Schubert .

Her engagement as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte in May 2018 was canceled by the Hamburg State Opera with reference to security risks after she announced her pregnancy in April. In Calixto Bieito's new production of Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Zurich Opera House in June / July 2018, however, she was able to take part in the title role. In 2019 she released her latest recording with Deutsche Grammophon, Mademoiselle , a collection of 19th century bel canto arias, some of which were recorded for the first time.

With the declared aim of gaining new opera audiences, Julie Fuchs is particularly active on social media under the title @juliefuchssoprano.

Opera roles and engagements (selection)

role Engagements
Comtesse Adèle ( Le comte Ory ) Opéra-Comique Paris , (Dec. 2017)
Fiorilla ( Il turco in Italia ) Zurich Opera House (Apr. 2019)
Leïla ( Les pêcheurs de perles ) concert performance: Orchester National de Lille, Alexandre Bloch (May 2017)
Marie ( La fille du regiment )
Marzelline ( Fidelio ) Zurich Opera House (Dec. 2013)
Morgana ( Alcina ) Zurich Opera House (Jan. 2014)
Musetta ( La Bohème ) Bavarian State Opera (house debut, July 2016)
Nannetta ( Falstaff ) Opéra National de Paris (Oct. 2017)
Norina ( Don Pasquale ) Zurich Opera House (Dec. 2019, role debut)
Poppea ( L'incoronazione di Poppea ) Zurich Opera House (role debut, June 2018)
Rosane ( Vivaldi : La verità in cimento ) Zurich Opera House (May 2015)
Susanna ( Le nozze di Figaro ) Zurich Opera House (Jan. 2015)
Zerlina ( Don Giovanni ) Festival Aix-en Provence (July 2017)

Prizes and awards

  • Révélation classique de l'Adami (2009)
  • Winner of the Palazzetto Bru Zane at the Concours de Paris (2010)
  • Gabriel Dussurget Prize of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence (2011)
  • Révélation musicale des 2012/13 Par le Syndicat professionnel e ma critique de théâtre, musique et danse
  • Victoires de la Musique (France): Best Opera Young Artist (2012), opera singer of the year (2014).
  • 2nd prize at the Operalia Competition Verona (2013).

Discography (selection)

Audio CDs:

  • Mélodies de jeunesse. Songs by Mahler and Debussy. Alphonse Cemin, piano. Aparte 2012
  • Francis Poulenc: Complete edition of the songs with piano accompaniment. Julie Fuchs alongside other artists, Olivier Godin, piano. Atma, 2013
  • Yes! Song and aria album. Orchester National de Lille, Samuel Jean, Deutsche Grammophon 2015
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito . Julie Fuchs as Servilia, Ensemble Vocal Aedes, Le Cercle De L'Harmonie, Jérémie Rhorer. Alpha, 2017
  • Georges Bizet: Les pêcheurs de Perles . Julie Fuchs as Leïla, Orchester National de Lille, Alexandre Bloch. Pentatone, 2018
  • Mademoiselle , 2019, arias by Rossini , Pacini , Donizetti , Meyerbeer , Fioravanti , Raimondi , Barbieri , Berlioz , Deutsche Grammophon

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography of Julie Fuchs. Ôlyrix, accessed April 22, 2018 (French).
  2. ↑ Julie Fuchs - Et incarnatus est - Miss in C - Mozart. Video document on Youtube, March 12, 2012, accessed on April 29, 2018 (English).
  3. ↑ Récital Julie Fuchs (announcement of May 30, 2016). Opéra Orchester National Montpellier, accessed on 14 July 2018 (French).
  4. ↑ Thomas Schacher: Clever role-playing games. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, February 22, 2017, accessed on April 22, 2018 .
  5. ^ Ave Maria - Julie Fuchs (Johnny Hallyday's funeral 9 December 2017). Video document on Youtube, December 11, 2017, accessed on July 11, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Logan Martell: UPDATE: Julie Fuchs Forced Out of “Die Zauberflote” in Hamburg; Company Issues Statement. Opera Wire, April 21, 2018, accessed April 22, 2018 .
  7. ↑ a b Anna Kardos: creaking, clunkers cup sizes: Monteverdi's "Poppea" is to the party. In: Aargauer Zeitung. June 26, 2016, accessed July 7, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Jan Krobot: ZURICH / Opera House: IL TURCO IN ITALIA. In: Online marker. May 6, 2019, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  9. ^ "Les Pêcheurs de perles" de Bizet - Live @ Auditorium du Nouveau Siècle. Culturebox in Youtube (video document), August 5, 2017, accessed on April 29, 2018 .
  10. ^ Jacques Schmitt: À Lausanne, Julie Fuchs et la Fille du Régiment. ResMusica, March 15, 2016, accessed April 30, 2018 (French).
  11. ↑ Katharina Hogrefe: A regiment for Julie Fuchs: Donizetti's Fille du regiment in Vienna. Backtrack, September 23, 2016, accessed April 30, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Thomas Schacher: Escape into abstraction. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, December 10, 2013, accessed on April 29, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Julie Fuchs. Bavarian State Opera, accessed on April 22, 2014 .
  14. ^ Vincent Guillemin: Bryn Terfel reprend avec brio les habits de Falstaff à l'Opéra Bastille. In: Res Musica. October 31, 2017, accessed July 15, 2018 (French).
  15. ↑ Marco Stücklin: "AGE DOESN'T PROTECT FROM FOOLITY" - "DON PASQUALE" in the Zurich Opera House. In: The Opera Magazine. December 10, 2019, accessed December 10, 2019 .
  16. ^ John H. Mueller: ZURICH: LE NOZZE DI FIGARO - A very turbulent affair. Online Merker, October 21, 2016, accessed on April 29, 2018 .
  17. ^ Roberto Becker: Festival Aix en Provence 2017: Don Giovanni. Inline Music Magazine, accessed April 22, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Julie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French opera, lieder and concert singer (lyric soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Meaux