Patricia Petibon

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Patricia Petibon signs autographs in the Salzburg Festival Hall - 2009.

Patricia Petibon (born February 27, 1970 in Montargis ) is a French opera singer ( soprano ). She was best known for her interpretations of French and Italian baroque music .

Life

Patricia Petibon studied musicology and completed her vocal training at the Paris Conservatory in 1995 . William Christie discovered the young singer and since then she has been working regularly with his ensemble Les Arts Florissants . In this way, Petibon had his first appearances in Aix-en-Provence , at La Scala in Milan and in London's Wigmore Hall .

Petibon made his debut in Paris in 1996 at the Palais Garnier with Rameaus Hippolyte et Aricie . Engagements and a. with roles in Mozart's operas The Abduction from the Seraglio and The Marriage of Figaro took Petibon to various houses in the French provinces, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and to Zurich .

In addition to engagements with William Christie, Patricia Petibon could also be heard in Baroque works at the Paris Opéra in Rameau's Les Indes Galantes and under the musical direction of Marc Minkowski as Dalinda in Handel's Ariodante .

In Vienna she could be heard as Sophie in Massenets Werther at the Klangbogen Festival and in the Musikverein under the direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt as Zelmira in a concert performance of Haydn's Armida . She made her debut at the Vienna State Opera in March 2000 with the Olympia in Hoffmann's Tales by Jacques Offenbach and was also heard here in February 2006 as Sophie in Rosenkavalier . In addition, she is closely connected to the new opera house Theater an der Wien - where she a. a. In 2005 and 2006 the Giunia in Mozart's Lucio Silla , the Weltgeist in The Duty of the First Commandment , alongside Plácido Domingo in Torroba's Luisa Fernanda , as Soeur Constance in Poulenc's Dialogues des carmelites and in spring 2009 the Aspasia in Mozart's Mitridate, right di Ponto sang.

In February 2010 Patricia Petibon sang the title role in Alban Berg's opera Lulu in a performance at the Grand Théâtre in Geneva , staged by Olivier Py . She took on the same role in July 2010 at the Salzburg Festival under the direction of Vera Nemirova and the musical direction of Marc Albrecht . In Geneva, Petibon again embodied the Olympia in Hoffmann's stories .

Engagements in 2013/2014 included the Giunia at Liceu in Barcelona, ​​the role of Blanche in Dialogues des Carmélites at the Paris Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the title role in Manon (Jules Massenet) at the Vienna State Opera. Patricia Petibon sang the role of Ginevra in Ariodante at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in 2014 and the title role in Alcina in 2015 .

On August 22, 2015 she married the jazz violinist Didier Lockwood ; he died surprisingly in February 2018.

Discography

Awards

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  1. ↑ Biography on the website of an Austrian artist agency. Archived from the original on March 23, 2009 ; Retrieved October 8, 2009 .
  2. ^ Machreich Artists Management: Patricia Petibon - Biography. Retrieved August 15, 2015 .
  3. ↑ purepeople.com
  4. ↑ echoklassik.de - Prize Winners 2015 ( Memento from September 19, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) accessed on October 19, 2015

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personal data
SURNAME Petibon, Patricia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Montargis