The year 2013 was one of transition for Sabine Devieilhe. She was crowned ‘Révélation Artiste Lyrique’ at the twentieth Victoires de la Musique Classique. That same year, the Opéra de Montpellier invited her to play the title role in Lakmé by Léo Delibes. In July 2012, she made her mark at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, where she played Serpetta in Mozart’s opera La finta giardiniera, directed by Vincent Boussard.

It was Jean-Claude Malgoire who gave her her first bel canto role as Amina in Bellini’s La sonnambula and then engaged her to play La Folie in Rameau’s Platée. The combination of her studies and her varied and precocious collaborations formed the basis of a glittering start to her career, which accelerated from the 2011-2012 season on. Since then, she has also performed in concert with Les Arts Florissants, Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre, and many other well-known artists and ensembles. The Orchestre national d’Île-de-France and the Orchestre de Paris also gave her access to other stages. Around the same time, she worked with Jean-Claude Malgoire and Alexis Kossenko on pieces from the baroque repertoire, from Bach to Rameau, the composer whose work would be the subject of her first recorded recital in 2013: Rameau – Le Grand Théâtre de l’Amour.

She performed music from a large repertoire ranging from early music to contemporary music with Geoffroy Jourdain and his ensemble Les Cris de Paris. She sang with Pygmalion, directed by Raphaël Pichon. He founded the musical ensemble La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy.Īt the same time as studying, Devieilhe started close collaborations with several musical ensembles. Jean-Claude Malgoire, who passed away recently, in April 2018, was a French oboist, musicologist, and conductor known for his many prestigious collaborations as a musician. There she also studied with Malcolm Walker and Elène Golgevit and, in 2011, was unanimously awarded first prize with special recognition from the jury.

Praised for her voice, she became a soloist and, in 2008, she entered Pierre Mervant’s singing class at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris. In 2002, she was a member of the chorus in a production of Richard Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer. Under the influence of singing teachers Jocelyne Chamonin of the Conservatoire de Caen, and then Martine Surais of the Conservatoire de Rennes, Sabine Devieilhe established her career as an opera singer. Her musical training all took place under the guidance of the conductor Valérie Fayet. While she was studying, she joined the choir of the Opéra de Rennes. She began her musical education at the music school there before entering the Conservatoire de Caen, at the age of twelve, to study the cello.Īfter receiving her baccalaureate at the Lycée Malherbe, she obtained a degree in musicology and ethnomusicology from the University of Rennes 2. The French coloratura soprano Sabine Devieilhe was born in 1985 in Ifs in Normandy, a small commune with a population of roughly 10,000. The production boasts a five-star cast with, playing the part of the Queen of the Night, one of the leading European opera singers of the moment: Sabine Devieilhe, whose career we outline below. La Monnaie opens the 2018-19 season with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s iconic opera Die Zauberflöte in an original interpretation by Romeo Castellucci.

Udo Reinemann International Masterclass.

Victoires de la musique 2014