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, and in 2008, she entered the Paris Conservatory as a singer, winning the school's top prize and graduating in 2011. 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 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. 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. 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. The asteroid 33346 Sabinedevieilhe is named for her.© James Manheim /TiVo Read more
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, and in 2008, she entered the Paris Conservatory as a singer, winning the school's top prize and graduating in 2011. 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 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.
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. 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. The asteroid 33346 Sabinedevieilhe is named for her.
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Bach & Handel
Sabine Devieilhe, Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 5 Nov 2021
"It almost felt like we were sneaking in, the Pygmalion ensemble and I, that week in December 2020 as we walked through the great door of the church w ...
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Mirages (Messager, Debussy, Delibes, Delage, Thomas...)
Secular Vocal Music - Released by Warner Classics on 10 Nov 2017
Le Choix de France Musique4F de TéléramaChoc de ClassicaChoc Classica de l'annéeDiapason d'orGramophone Editor's ChoiceVictoire de la musique5 Sterne Fono Forum JazzThis project originated, Sabine Devieilhe says, from her desire to tackle Lakmé. In fact, Delibes was able to compose for her heroine some of the most ...
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Rameau: Achante et Céphise
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 5 Nov 2021
Many more Rameau operas are available on recordings than there were a generation ago, but new ones are surfacing all the time. A splendid example is A ...
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Mozart - The Weber Sisters
Classical - Released by Erato - Warner Classics on 6 Nov 2015
4F de TéléramaChoc de ClassicaChoc Classica de l'année5 de DiapasonThe Weber Sisters is rooted in Mozart’s life story and includes music inspired by Aloysia, Konstanze and Josepha Weber, three soprano sisters whom Moz ...
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Chanson d'Amour
Sabine Devieilhe, Alexandre Tharaud
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 11 Sep 2020
4F de TéléramaSabine Devieilhe and Alexandre Tharaud bring their customary clarity, finesse and insight to the works of four composers who defined the path of Frenc ...
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Händel : Italian Cantatas
Sabine Devieilhe, Lea Desandre, Emmanuelle Haïm
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 23 Nov 2018
Handel's Italian cantatas date from early in his career, with few exceptions (none on display here). As a group they are less well-known than his oper ...
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Sainte-Hélène: La légende napoléonienne
Sabine Devieilhe, Arnaud Marzorati, Les Lunaisiens, Les Cuivres Romantiques
Classical - Released by Muso on 23 Apr 2021
The anniversaries keep coming: first it was Beethoven, now it’s the turn of Napoleon Bonaparte, who died two centuries ago, on 5 May 1821. In Fr ...
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Mirages
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 10 Nov 2017
This project originated, Sabine Devieilhe says, from her desire to tackle Lakmé. In fact, Delibes was able to compose for her heroine some of t ...
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Rameau: Le Grand Théâtre de l'amour
Opera - Released by Warner Classics International on 28 Oct 2013
Diapason d'orThe operas of Jean-Philippe Rameau, vast spectacles, may be lost to history in their original forms. Sure, some of them have been produced in the mode ...
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