Lucile Richardot
Alto and mezzo-soprano Lucile Richardot has been an important presence on the Baroque operatic scene in the 2010s and 2020s. She has also, since 2012, led her own ensemble, Tictatus.
Richardot grew up in eastern France, where she sang for six years in the Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Lorraine d'Epinal, a children's choir. Instead of continuing with music, however, she studied journalism and worked in that field until she was 27. Returning to vocal studies, Richardot attended the Conservatoire du Vème arrondissement de Paris, the Maîtrise de Notre-Dame de Paris, and finally, Paris' Conservatoire à rayonnement régional, where she worked with Margreet Hoenig, Noëlle Barker, and Jill Feldman, among others. A notable feature of Richardot's career is that she was taking on, and even originating, major roles while still a student. Shortly after resuming her studies, she performed with the ensemble Poème Harmonique under director Vincent Dumestre in Lully's opera Cadmus et Hermione. Richardot played the first Aunt in the premiere performance of the contemporary opera Yvonne, Princesse de Bourgogne, by Philippe Boesmans, in 2009. Another major contemporary role was one in Luigi Nono's Omaggio a Kurtag, which Richardot performed in 2014 with the famed Ensemble InterContemporain.
In the Baroque realm, Richardot performed as Lisa in Vivaldi's little-heard opera Arsilda with the Baroque ensemble Collegium 1704 in 2017. She has appeared with Solistes XXI, Ensemble Pygmalion, and Les Arts Florissants as part of a complete performance cycle of Monteverdi's madrigals under director Paul Agnew. Richardot also performed in a series of Bach cantata concerts in Paris and appeared on several recordings of this repertory. In 2018, she made her first appearance on recordings as a featured soloist on Perpetual Night, an album of 17th century English songs, with Ensemble Correspondances under Sébastien Daucé. In 2020, Richardot formed a new voice-and-piano duo with pianist Anne de Fornel, whom she met at a French radio interview. That year, she moved to the Alpha label, performing on a recording of a small-ensemble adaptation of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. She then moved to Harmonia Mundi, appearing on recordings of music by Pergolesi, Berio, and, in 2022, a hypothetical Great Venetian Mass by Vivaldi.
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Discografia
10 album • Ordinato per Bestseller
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Vivaldi: The Great Venetian Mass
Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew, Sophie Karthäuser, Lucile Richardot
Messe, Passioni, Requiem - Pubblicato da harmonia mundi il 24 giu 2022
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Doux silence
Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch, Julie Roset, Lucile Richardot
Classica - Pubblicato da Alpha Classics il 19 apr 2024
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Pergolesi: Stabat Mater - Rossell: Salve Regina
Ensemble Resonanz, Riccardo Minasi, Giulia Semenzato, Lucile Richardot
Musica vocale sacra - Pubblicato da harmonia mundi il 19 mar 2021
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Cantate da camera
Lucile Richardot, Philippe Grisvard
Classica - Pubblicato da Audax Records il 20 gen 2023
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Nadia & Lili Boulanger: Les Heures claires (The complete Songs)
Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel, Stéphane Degout, Emmanuelle Bertrand, Raquel Camarinha, Sarah Nemtanu
Mélodies - Pubblicato da harmonia mundi il 24 feb 2023
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Perpetual Night: 17th Century Airs and Songs
Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé, Lucile Richardot
Musica vocale profana - Pubblicato da harmonia mundi il 6 apr 2018
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Berio To Sing
Les Cris de Paris - Geoffroy Jourdain, Geoffroy Jourdain, Lucile Richardot
Classica - Pubblicato da harmonia mundi il 2 apr 2021
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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Arranged for Small Orchestra)
Lucile Richardot, Yves Saelens, Het Collectief, Reinbert de Leeuw
Classica - Pubblicato da Alpha Classics il 11 set 2020
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Un lieu à soi
Lucile Richardot, Adam Laloum, ActeSix
Classica - Pubblicato da Oktav Records il 22 mar 2024
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Ethel Barns: Sleep Weary Heart
Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel
Mélodies - Pubblicato da La Boîte à Pépites il 21 lug 2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo