Sabine Devieilhe
Soprano Sabine Devieilhe (de-vi-EL-a approximates it) became a fast-rising star in the 2010s, with charisma and a versatile voice that drew comparisons to vocal superstar Natalie Dessay. Her range of roles has stretched from the Baroque to contemporary works, and she has appeared widely with both historically oriented performers and traditional musicians.
Devieilhe was born in Ifs, in France's Normandy region, on December 12, 1985. Her parents, special education teachers, were not musical, but she showed talent at a local music school and enrolled at the Caen Conservatory at 12. Devieilhe studied cello at first, but voice teachers induced her to study singing as well. At the University of Rennes, she also studied musicology and ethnomusicology and performed in the choir in several local opera productions. In 2008, she entered the Paris Conservatory as a singer, winning the school's top prize and graduating in 2011. In 2010, she made her recording debut as a member of the ensemble Les Cris de Paris, appearing on its album Encores. Her solo debut came the following year on the Glossa label with the album Gustave Charpentier: Music for the Prix de Rome.
It didn't take long for her career to blossom, both on stage and, more unusually for a singer so early in her career, on major-label recordings. Devieilhe was signed to the Erato label in 2013, and in addition to operatic appearances, she has made several innovative and highly successful recital albums. Devieilhe sang the title role in Delibes' Lakmé at the Montpellier Opera, reprising the role in 2014 at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. Another major early role was that of the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in 2013 at the Opéra National de Lyon, again repeating the role in Paris at the Opéra National. She has also performed the role of Amina in Bellini's La sonnambula several times.
Devieilhe won the Lyric Artist Revelation award at the annual Victoires de la musique classique ceremony in 2013 and followed it up in 2015 with a Lyric Artist of the Year nod. In 2015, she released Mozart: The Weber Sisters, highlighting music written by Mozart for Aloysia and Constanze Weber. In 2018, she joined Lea Desandre for an album of duo Italian cantatas by Handel. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2019, performing a program of French songs, and she recorded an album's worth of them in 2020 with pianist Alexandre Tharaud. Devieilhe's recording career intensified in the early 2020s, with three albums released in 2021 alone. She was heard on Erato in two operas, Mozart's Mitridate, re di Ponto, K. 87, and Rameau's Achante et Céphise, as well as in a Bach and Handel recital with the early music ensemble Pygmalion. In 2022, Devieilhe sang the soprano part in Mahler's Symphony No. 4 in G major with the historical performance group Les Siècles, and she returned in 2024 on Erato with a recital of songs by Mozart and Richard Strauss, accompanied by pianist Mathieu Pordoy. By that time, her recording catalog comprised some 50 items. The asteroid 33346 Sabinedevieilhe is named for her.
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Discography
16 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Mozart & Strauss: Lieder
Sabine Devieilhe, Mathieu Pordoy
Vocale muziek (wereldlijk en religieus) - Released by Warner Classics on 29 mrt. 2024
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mirages (Messager, Debussy, Delibes, Delage, Thomas...)
Wereldlijke vocale muziek - Released by Warner Classics on 10 nov. 2017
Gramophone Editor's Choice24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bach & Handel
Sabine Devieilhe, Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Klassiek - Released by Warner Classics on 5 nov. 2021
Gramophone: Recording of the Month24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mozart - The Weber Sisters
Klassiek - Released by Erato - Warner Classics on 6 nov. 2015
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Libertà ! Mozart & the opera
Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon, Sabine Devieilhe
Opera - Released by harmonia mundi on 30 aug. 2019
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Chanson d'Amour
Sabine Devieilhe, Alexandre Tharaud
Klassiek - Released by Warner Classics on 11 sep. 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mirages
Klassiek - Released by Warner Classics on 10 nov. 2017
Gramophone Editor's Choice16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Mozart: Mitridate, rè di Ponto
Michael Spyres, Sabine Devieilhe, Elsa Dreisig, Marc Minkowski
Klassiek - Released by Warner Classics on 29 okt. 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Rameau: Achante et Céphise
Klassiek - Released by Warner Classics on 5 nov. 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Händel : Italian Cantatas
Sabine Devieilhe, Lea Desandre, Emmanuelle Haïm
Klassiek - Released by Warner Classics on 23 nov. 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Rameau: Le Grand Théâtre de l'amour
Opera - Released by Warner Classics International on 28 okt. 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Sainte-Hélène: La légende napoléonienne
Sabine Devieilhe, Arnaud Marzorati, Les Lunaisiens, Les Cuivres Romantiques
Klassiek - Released by Muso on 23 apr. 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Soir Païen
Alexis Kossenko, Anna Reinhold, Emmanuel Olivier, Sabine Devieilhe, Magali Mosnier
Klassiek - Released by Aparté on 27 mrt. 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Strauss: Morgen
Sabine Devieilhe, Mathieu Pordoy
Klassiek - Released by Warner Classics on 8 mrt. 2024
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mozart: Mitridate, rè di Ponto, K. 87, Act 1: "Al destin, che la minaccia"
Michael Spyres, Sabine Devieilhe, Elsa Dreisig, Marc Minkowski
Klassiek - Released by Warner Classics on 17 sep. 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mozart: Mitridate, rè di Ponto, K. 87, Act 1: "Se di lauri il crine adorno"
Michael Spyres, Sabine Devieilhe, Elsa Dreisig, Marc Minkowski
Klassiek - Released by Warner Classics on 8 okt. 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo