Michèle Bréant
A « touching and luminous Euridice » whose « angelic grace in the aria Se desti pietà (…) will not be forgotten » Thierry Hillériteau for Le Figaro.
Michèle Bréant (born in 1999) has been voted « ADAMI Talent lyrique 2024 » (Best Opera Newcomer). Recent appearances include Susanna /Le Nozze di Figaro at La Seine Musicale, Zerlina / Don Giovanni at Théâtre de l’Athénée in Paris (with conductor Julien Chauvin and Le Concert de la Loge), Euridice / Orfeo by Sartorio conducted by Philippe Jaroussky and directed by Benjamin Lazare, Première servante / Médée by Cherubini and Diamantine / L’Île de Merlin by Glück at Paris Opéra-Comique, Titania in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Taumännchen in Humperdinck’s Hänsel and Gretel at the Leipzig Opera, Bach’s St Matthew Passion at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, with La Petite Bande conducted by Sigiswald Kuijken.
During the 2025-2026 season, Michèle will sing Dorinda / Haendel ‘s Orlando at Opéra de Nancy, Grand-Théâtre du Luxembourg and Opéra de Caen, Constance / Les Dialogues des Carmélites at Opéra National de Lorraine, Zerlina / Don Giovanni at Théâtre de l’Athénée in Paris and in tour in France, Mahler’s 4th Symphony with Orchestre National de Bordeaux, Brahms’ Deutsches Requiem with Orchestre de l’Opéra Normandie Rouen, and Couperin’s Leçons de ténèbres with Christophe Rousset in Paris, Oslo and Rouen.
Michèle started studying singing, piano and dance at an early age. Before entering the Conservatoire Régional de Paris, she had her first major stage experience singing Gretel / The Sound of Music at the Théâtre du Châtelet (2009 and 2012).
While still a student, she sang Amour / Orphée et Eurydice at Brussels De Munt (with Hervé Niquet, Sabine Devieilhe and Stéphanie d’Oustrac), and Mahler’s Das klagende Lied at the Philharmonie de Paris conducted by Jaap van Zweden, then at the Dallas Philharmonie in the US.
Michèle joined Carola Guber’s class at the Hochschule für Musik in Leipzig in 2018. In parallel to her musical studies, she obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Literature and Art History at the University of Paris Diderot. She has taken part in various events and master classes, including the Atelier lyrique of the Festival Verbier, the Académie Jaroussky and the Heidelberg Lied Academy, where she has benefited from the advice of Thomas Hampson, Anne le Bozec, James Bailieu, Erik Battaglia, Anne Sophie von Otter, Thomas Quasthoff and Philippe Jaroussky.
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