Trinidadian soprano Jeanine De Bique has in recent years gained international recognition for her \u201cdramatic presence and versatility\u201d (Washington Post), and \u201csheer endless wealth of colour and nuances [\u2026] a radiant, freefloating timbre.\u201d (Opernwelt) <\/p>\n
The season 21\/22 will commence with role and house debuts as Poppea in Monteverdi\u2019s L\u2019Incoronazione di Poppea with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iv\u00e1n Fischer in Budapest, Geneva and Vicenza, followed by the title role in Handel\u2019s Alcina in Robert Carsen\u2019s acclaimed production at l\u2019Opera national de Paris, conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock. Ms De Bique is also looking forward to new collaborations with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel, Martin Fr\u00f6st and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic and Herbert Blomstedt, the WDR Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck and to recitals with pianist Gerold Huber for the Cincinnati Song Initiative and at Carnegie Hall, which will also be her solo debut at this hall. Her first solo-CD, with Concerto K\u00f6ln, will be released in October by Berlin Classics and followed by concerts in early 2022. The season will conclude with a role and house debut at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. In 2020\/21, she gave house and role debuts as Agathe in Weber\u2019s Der Freisch\u00fctz with Konzerthausorchester Berlin and Christoph Eschenbach, Bess\/Porgy and Bess and as La Folie in Robert Carsen\u2019s celebrated production of Rameau\u2019s Plat\u00e9e at Theater an der Wien, conducted by William Christie and also presented in concert at Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. Elsewhere, she performed excerpts from Porgy and Bess with the Rotterdam Philharmonic and with the orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, both conducted by Wayne Marshall, and returned to Theater St Gallen as Cleopatra in Handel\u2019s Giulio Cesare. <\/p>\n
In the US, Ms De Bique performed Beethoven\u2019s Symphony no 9 at the Aspen Music Festival and gave her debut with Houston Grand Opera in excerpts from Rodgers and Hammerstein\u2019s The Sound of Music and a programme of works by Handel and Mozart, conducted by Patrick Summers. Since her breakthrough debut at the 2017 Salzburg Festival as Annio in Peter Sellar\u2019s production of La Clemenza di Tito, conducted by Teodor Currentzis and subsequently shown at De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, she has appeared as Susanna\/Le Nozze di Figaro for San Francisco Opera, Helena in Ted Huffman\u2019s production of A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream at Deutsche Oper Berlin, conducted by Donald Runnicles, in the title role of Handel\u2019s Rodelinda at Op\u00e9ra de Lille, conducted by Emmanuelle Ha\u00efm and released on DVD by Erato (winner of the Opus Klassik Award 2020), as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni for Op\u00e9ra National du Rhin and as Aida in the world premiere of Caruso a Cuba by Micha Hamel in a return to De Nationale Opera Amsterdam. <\/p>\n
Concert highlights include Brahms\u2019 Ein deutsches Requiem with Rapha\u00ebl Pichon at La Seine Musicale in Paris and with Lorin Maazel and the Munich Philharmonic, Mahler\u2019s Symphony no 2 with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse under Tugan Sokhiev in Toulouse and at the Philharmonie de Paris, Handel arias and Mozart\u2019s Requiem with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iv\u00e1n Fischer at the Hollywood Bowl and New York\u2019s Lincoln Center, Mahler\u2019s Symphony no 4, conducted by Teodor Currentzis, in Milan, St Petersburg, Munich and Budapest, return visits to the BBC PROMS in works by Handel with the Chineke! Orchestra and with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Richard Egarr, the Messiah with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the Melbourne Symphony, Paert\u2019s Como cierva sedienta with Iv\u00e1n Fischer and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin and Mahler\u2019s Symphony no 8 with Lorin Maazel and the New York Philharmonic as well as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop at the Ravinia Festival. <\/p>\n
Ms De Bique holds a Master degree from the Manhattan School of Music. Her awards include First prize at the Young Concert Artists, Inc Music Competition, the Arleen Auger Prize at the Hertogenbosch International Vocal Competition, Third Prize in the Viotti International Music Competition. She was a prize winner at the Gerda Lissner Vocal Competition (New York), a finalist and study grant award recipient of the 2011 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and received a study grant from the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation. She is a recipient of the Youth Ambassador for Peace, awarded by the National Commission of UNESCO, Trinidad and Tobago. <\/p>\n
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