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Adèle Charvet

Mezzo-soprano

  • With a voice praised as "velvety", "rich", and "vibrantly sensitive”, Adèle Charvet has swiftly risen to become one of the most exciting French mezzos of her generation. This season, Charvet makes her role debut as the title role Ariodante for the Opera national du Rhin, Strasbourg; title role Carmen in a new production at the Opéra royal de Versailles and her role debut as Charlotte Werther with the Geneva Chamber Orchestra conducted by Marc Leroy-Calatayud. Her season highlights also include a celebratory concert with Julien Chauvin’s Le Concert de La Loge at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées; Carmen and Djamileh excerpts with Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre; Dido Dido and Aeneas with le Poéme Harmonique at Bozar; Bach Easter Oratorio with the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Bernard Labadie and her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival as Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro

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  • Highlights of Charvet's 2023/24 season included the role of Giulietta in Zingarelli Giulietta e Romeo at the Opéra royal de Versailles conducted by Stefan Plewniak; Ascagne Les Troyens on tour with the Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, with performances at the Berlioz Festival, Salzburg Festival, Versailles, Berliner Festspiele and the BBC Proms; a staged concert performance of Wozzeck at the Verbier Festival conducted by Lahav Shani; Helen in Foccroulle Le Journal d’Hélène Berr at the Opéra National du Rhin, Strasbourg; title role La Cenerentola for the Opéra national du Capitole de Toulouse; Honnegger Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher with the Berliner Philharmoniker cond. Alan Gilbert, as well as numerous international chamber projects and recitals. She has also appeared as Stephano Roméo et Juliette for the Opéra Comique, Rosina Il Barbiere di Siviglia for the Opéra national du Capitole de Toulouse and Mélisande Pélleas et Mélisande for the Opéra de Rouen.  
     
    She made her operatic stage debut and as Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel, followed by the Polovtsian maiden in Prince Igor for Dutch National Opera. There followed a series  of house debuts at the Verbier Festival, the Royal Opera, Covent Garden as Mercédès/Carmen, the Opéra national de Bordeaux as Rosina Il barbiere di Siviglia and the Opéra Comique Javotte in Olivier Py’s production of Manon conducted by Marc Minkowski.  Charvet’s artistry has captivated audiences across the world, with versatility spanning early to contemporary repertoire, encompassing vocal recitals with piano, chamber music, opera and orchestral concerts with renowned ensembles and conductors including Marc Minkowski. Raphaël Pichon,  Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Lahav Shani, Vincent Dumestre and Julien Chauvin. 
     
    Charvet recorded her debut album, Long Time Ago, featuring American and English songs with pianist  Susan Manoff, for  Alpha Classics in 2019. She is now an exclusive recording artist, with her eclectic discography exploring a rich repertoire spanning all forms and periods, from chamber music to opera. Her latest recording, Teatro Sant’Angelo, presents world premiere recordings of arias by Vivaldi, Chelleri and Ristori, recorded with the French ensemble Le Consort. This album was awarded the Diamant d’Opéra Magazine Award, TTTT Télérama, and 5 stars from BBC Music Magazine.


    Forthcoming highlights include a return to the BBC Proms; her role debut as Ino in a new Claus Guth production of Semele for Dutch National Opera conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm; a tour of Dido Dido and Aeneas with Le Poème harmonique; Berenice Farnace with I Gemelli touring to Madrid, Paris, Geneva and Oviedo; a Joséphine Baker programme with various ensembles beginning with the Orchestre de Picardie at the TCE; Vendredi in a new Laurent Pelly production of Offenbach Robinson Crusoé at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and returns to the Opéra national du Capitole de Toulouse and Opera de Lille. She will also reprise the role of Carmen, and make her role debut as Ruggiero Alcina
     
    Charvet studied at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. Her accolades include the 'Yves Paternot' prize for the most outstanding musician of the Verbier Academy, the Melodie prize at the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Competition (alongside duo partner Florian Caroubi), and the Grand Prize and four special prizes at the IVC Competition in 's-Hertogenbosch. 

    2024/25 season / 689 words. Not to be altered without permission.

Performances

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Opera repertoire

Bellini
Adele (il Pirata)


Berg
Margret (Wozzeck)


Berlioz
Ascagne (Les Troyens)
Ascanio (Benvenuto Cellini)


Bizet
Carmen
Mercédès (Carmen)


Borodin
Polovstian maiden (Prince Igor)


Debussy
Mélisande


Foccroulle
Le Journal d’Hélène Berr


Gounod
stephano (Roméo & Juliette)


Handel
Ariodante
Serse

Lalo
Sélysette (ariane et barbe bleu)

Lully
Hermione (Cadmus et Hermione)

Massenet
Charlotte (Werther)
Javotte (Manon)
Bertrade (Grisélidis)

Mozart
Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro)
Idamante (Idomeneo)


Purcell
Dido (Dido and Aeneas)


Rossini
Rosina (il Barbiere di Siviglia)
Cenerentola

Wagner
3rd blumenmädchen (Parsifal)

Zingarelli
Giulietta (Giulietta e Romeo)

Symphonic repertoire

Bach
Magnificat
B minor mass
Easter Oratorio


Beethoven
Symphony No.9


Berlioz
Les Nuits d’Été


Chausson
Poème de l’amour et de la mer


Haydn
Stabat Mater
Nelson Mass


Schubert
Mass in G
Honnegger
Marguerite (Jeanne d’Arc au Bûcher)


Malher
Symphony No.2


Mozart
Requiem
Mass in C

Pergolesi
Stabat Mater


Respighi
Il Tramonto


Rossini
Petite Messe Solennelle


Vivaldi
Nisi dominus

"Adèle Charvet, who is also taking on the role of Charlotte here, is the ideal partner. (...) The mezzo-soprano possesses a deep sense of text, line, and color, which form the foundation of her artistry."

Première Loge Opéra, February 2025

"Adèle Charvet, who sings the title role for the first time, has everything to be a great Angelina: a mix of tears and velvet in her voice, registers as infallibly unified as her agility."

Diapason, March 2024

Intermusica represents Adèle Charvet worldwide.

Camilla Wehmeyer
Associate Director, Vocal & Opera
+44 7973 614630
cwehmeyer@intermusica.com

Iago Campello
Associate Artist Manager, Vocal & Opera
+44 7548 317398
icampello@intermusica.com

All artists

Chansonnier

HK Gruber

Contralto

Avery Amereau

Harpsichord

Richard Egarr

Piano accompanist

Roger Vignoles

Saxophone

Jess Gillam