Trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in the classes of Frédéric Gindraux, Morgane Fauchois, and Mary Olivon, the young French mezzo-soprano Céleste Pinel is a 2023 laureate of the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg.

She made her stage debut in the role of L'Enfant (L'Enfant et les sortilèges) at the Castel Artès Festival in Mirepoix and then performed in La Veuve joyeuse and Suor Angelica as part of the Département Supérieur pour Jeunes Chanteurs et the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Paris.

She recently performed at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in the roles of Gavroche and L'Apprentie in Louise by Charpentier, roles she reprised at the Opéra National de Lyon. She also performed Mendelssohn's Elias at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, Giovanna and Il Paggio in a concert version of Rigoletto with Le Cercle de l’harmonie and Jérémie Rhorer at the Philharmonie de Paris.

Among her projects this season let us mention L'Amour des trois oranges (Smeraldine) at the Opéra National de Lyon, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and the Opéra National du Rhin in a new production by Laurent Pelly, Pelléas et Mélisande (Yniold) at the Opéra National du Rhin in a new production by Richard Brunel. She will also be returning to the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence for the 2027 edition. In concert, she will perform with Il Caravaggio in a Duval-Rameau program in Vivoin.

September 2026

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La Traviata – Verdi

La Traviata - Verdi