Hélène Carpentier

First Prize and Prize for the best interpretation of the French repertoire at the Voix Nouvelles Competition in Paris, she was awarded Révélation Classique 2018 by ADAMI. Winner of several competitions in 2017, including the First Prize « Femme Opéra », the Second Prize « Mélodie Française », the Prize « Jeune Espoir », the « Audience Award » and the « Special Jury » Prize at the Marmande International Competition. She was also finalist in 2019 at the International Neue Stimmen Competition in Gütersloh (Germany).

After studies in piano and flute, she discovered singing in Amiens, her hometown, with Marie-Dominique Loyer, her professor and coach since then. Admitted in 2015 to the Choir of the Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris, and, the following year, to the entrance examination of the National Superior Conservatory of Music and Dance of Paris, she performs in various productions under the direction of conductors such as as Laurence Equilbey, Paul Agnew or David Reiland.

In 2018, she takes part in a concert tour with the winners of the Voix Nouvelles competition, she is Albina (La Donna del lago) at the Opéra de Marseille, Gabriel and Eve (Die Schöpfung) with the Orchestre national de Lorraine conducted by Diego Fasolis, Micaëla (Carmen) at the Opéra de Rouen and at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. She also has performed in a serie of concerts with Insula Orchestra and Accentus (Mozart's Requiem and the Mass of Clémence de Grandval).

During the 2019/2020 season we could hear her in the role of Madeleine (Le Postillon de Lonjumeau) in Rouen, as well as Despina in Così fan tutte in Nice. Very recently, she was Sandmännchen / Taumännchen (Hänsel and Gretel) at the Opéra national du Rhin, Mélisande (Ariane and Barbe-bleue by Dukas) at the Opéra de Lyon, Électre (Idoménée by Campra) at the Opéra Lille and at the Staatsoper Berlin and Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride (title role) at the Opéra de Rouen. In concert, she sang Beethoven’s Missa solemnis conducted by Ben Glassberg in Rouen, Ariane et Bacchus by Marin Marais at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées with Le Concert Spirituel conducted by Hervé Niquet, Marzelline (Fidelio) in Bozar, the Barbican Centre and La Seine musicale with Insula Orchestra and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in Paris, Amiens and Geneva.

Among her recent and future projects: Inès (L'Africaine by Meyerbeer) and Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro) in Marseille, a staged version of Mozart’s Requiem in Bordeaux, Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) at the Opéra national du Rhin, the title part of Cendrillon by Massenet at the Opéra de Limoges, Juliette (Roméo et Juliette) in Québec, Orphée et Eurydice (Eurydice) in Toulon, Dialogues des Carmélites (Blanche) at the Opéra de Rouen and at the Opéra de Nancy, and, in concert, Médée by Charpentier at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Werther (Sophie) in Budapest, a tour of concerts in Monte-Carlo, Metz, Paris Philharmonie and La Seine Musicale with Insula orchestra with a Mendelssohn program, Dvorak Requiem  in Limoges,  Mahler’s 4th Symphonie and Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder in Nancy, La Damoiselle élue by Debussy and La Naissance de Vénus by Fauré with the Brussels Philharmonic and Mozart Requiem with the Orchestre National de Metz.

February 2024