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Julie Pasturaud

Julie Pasturaud

Julie Pasturaud

Mezzo-soprano

Julie Pasturaud made her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival in Macbeth, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski and directed by Richard Jones, there she sang as well in David McVicar’s Carmen and in the new production of L’Enfant et les Sortilèges directed by Laurent Pelly.

For the past 20 years, her international carreer has taken her to leading stages, London (Barbican, Royal Festival Hall) , Paris (Radio France, Pleyel, Philharmonie de Paris, Opéra de Paris), Bordeaux, Toulouse, Montpellier, Cologne, Rome, Moscow, Munich, Geneva, Stockholm, Monaco, Edinburgh…

She has collaborated with numerous conductors, Sir Colin Davis, Leonard Slatkin, Kazushi Ono, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Charles Dutoit, Stéphane Denève, Mikko Franck, Kazuki Yamada. Michael Schønwandt, William, Christie, Marc Minkowski, Fabio Luisi, Edward Gardner… and the stage directors Jean Bellorini, Robert Carsen, David McVicar, Laurent Pelly, Dominique Pitoiset, Marie-Eve Signeyrole…

Gifted with a strong stage personality, her engagements include Orphée aux Enfers, Hippolyte et AricieIl Barbiere di Siviglia, Lucia di Lammermoor, Lakmé, La Cenerentola, La Traviata, Gianni Schicchi, Die tote Stadt, I Puritani, La Fille du régimentRigoletto, Cendrillon, Ariadne au Naxos and Les Mamelles de Tirésias.

She also took part in the world premiere of La Métamorphose, a new opera by Michaël Levinas, created at the Opéra de Lille in March 2011.

Recent and future projects include Cendrillon (Madame de la Haltière) at Opéra de Limoges and in Taiwan, La Forza del destino et Lucia di Lammermoor at the Opéra de Paris, Barbe-Bleue à l'Opéra National de Lyon, La Cenerentola in Toulouse, Dialogues des Carmélites in Liège, Le Comte Ory in Québec and Eugène Oneguin in Nancy.

February 2024

Repertoire


Opera

  • BELLINI – Norma (Clotilde)
  • BELLINI – La Sonnambula (Teresa)
  • BERLIOZ – Béatrice et Bénédict (Ursule)
  • BIZET – Carmen (Mercedes)
  • BRITTEN – Peter Grimes (Mrs Sedley)

Events


Eugene Onegin - Tchaikovsky
Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy
Julie Pasturaud
- Madame Larina
François Piolino
- Monsieur Triquet
28/02/2025 - 06/03/2025
Louise - Charpentier
Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
Julie Pasturaud
- Marguerite, La Laitière
05/07/2025 - 13/07/2025

Videos


La Métamorphose – Levinas

« Je, tu, il », prolog
Julie Pasturaud, mezzo-soprano
Magali Léger ; Anne Mason
Stage director – Stanislas Nordey
Ensemble Ictus – Georges-Elie Octors
Opéra de Lille (2011)

L’Enfant et les Sortilèges – Ravel

« Votre serviteur, humble bergère »
Julie Pasturaud – Bergère
Paul Gay – Fauteuil
Stage director – Laurent Pelly
London Philharmonic Orchestra – Kazushi Ono
Glyndebourne Festival (2012)

Recordings


CD


DVD