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The French-German soprano Camille Schnoor was Born in Nice 1986. Praised for her “stupendous acting and powerful, fascinating singing” (FAZ), she won the Bavarian sponsorship award for performing arts 2020 as well as the international competition Vokal Genial 2013 in Munich. The major daily German newspaper “Die Welt” nominated her 2016 for both “best singer” and "best young singer".
During the season 24/25 she will debut at the Opéra National de Bordeaux and at the Opéra comique in Paris with the World Premiere Les Sentinelles, she will sing again Hanna Glawari (The merry Widow) at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz München, she will take part to a new Amy Beach CD recording with the Münchner Symphoniker, she will sing Wagner and Saint-Saens with the Orchestre Colonne et the Salle Gaveau in Paris and give her house debut at the Opéra de Marseille (Rusalka). Camille Schnoor will present herself at the summer festival Chorégies d’Orange 2024 during the Live TV broadcast “Musiques en fête” with arias and ensembles from Madama Butterfly, La Bohème and Faust, and she will debut at the Opéra de Lille as Rosalinde (die Fledermaus).
Highlights from past seasons have been a.o. her debut at the Bayreuther Festspiele under Pablo Heras-Casado (Parsifal), the Foreign Princess (Rusalka) and Hanna Glawari (The Merry Widow) at the Opéra de Nice, Ciò-Ciò-San (Madama Butterfly) in Limoges, Rouen and Vichy, Ariadne (Ariadne auf Naxos) in Limoges and at the Hungarian State Opera Budapest, Mimì (La Bohème) in Munich, Aachen and Klosterneuburg, her Elbphilharmonie debut with Schumann's last Ballades under Laurence Equilbey, and her Marschallin debut (Der Rosenkavalier) in concert in Geneva.
2019 she gave her debut as Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) at the Opera Bergen in Norway as well as her house debut at the Opéra National de Lorraine in the role of Hilda (Sigurd by Reyer). Her Ciò-Ciò-San debut 2018 (Madama Butterfly) at the Opéra de Limoges and Opéra de Rouen Normandie was highly acclaimed by both the public and critics and the production was streamed several times on French TV.
From 2016 till 2023, Camille Schnoor has been one of the leading soloists at Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in München and sang there numerous main roles of her fach, including Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Mimì (la Bohème), Tatyana (Eugene Onegin), Hanna Glawari (The Merry Widow), Antonia und Giulietta (The Tales of Hoffmann).
She has been working together with conductors Pablo Heras-Casado, Frédéric Chaslin, Christian Arming, Laurence Equilbey, Daniel Kawka, Erik Nielson and with directors Stefan Poda, Laurent Pelly, Joan Anton Rechi, Michel Fau and Josef E. Köpplinger. Her first solo album “ Les Âmes Naturelles “ was released 2022 by the label Klarthe. The Live recording of the Bayreuth Parsifal will be released in june 2024 by Deutsche Grammophon on CD and DVD.
