A "touching and luminous Euridice" whose "angelic grace will not be forgotten (...)". - Thierry Hillériteau, Le Figaro
Michèle Bréant is Talent Adami Classique 2024 and has also joined the Académie de l'Opéra-Comique for the 24/25 season. This year, she will sing Zerlina in Don Giovanni in a new Arcal production directed by Jean-Yves Ruf and conducted by Julien Chauvin with the Concert de la Loge.
She recently sang Susanna in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro at La Seine Musicale, and Euridice in Sartorio's Orfeo conducted by Philippe Jaroussky and directed by Benjamin Lazare in an Arcal production at the Théâtre de l'Athénée, Titania in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Taumännchen in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel at the Leipzig Opera and the solo soprano in Bach's St Matthew Passion at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, with La Petite Bande conducted by Sigiswald Kuijken. She will soon be making her debut at the Opéra de Lorraine, the Grand Théâtre du Luxembourg and the Théâtre de Caen.
A finalist in the 12th Nadia and Lili Boulanger Competition with pianist Gabriel Durliat, Michèle is still perfecting her Lied with Thomas Hampson at the Heidelberg Lied Academy, and in concert during the Schubert Woche (Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin) and the Heidelberg Frühling Festival.
Michèle began studying singing, piano and dance at an early age. Before joining the Maîtrise de Paris, she took her first steps on stage singing Gretel in The Sound of Music at the Théâtre du Châtelet (2009 and 2012). While still a student, she sang Love in Orphée et Eurydice at La Monnaie in Brussels (with Hervé Niquet, Sabine Devieilhe and Stéphanie d'Oustrac), and Mahler's Das klagende Lied at the Philharmonie de Paris and then at the Dallas Philharmonie conducted by Jaap van Zweden. She joined Carola Guber's class at the Hochschule für Musik in Leipzig in 2018 and alongside her musical studies, she obtained a degree in literature and art history at the Université Paris Diderot. She has taken part in various events and master classes, notably at the Atelier Lyrique of the Verbier Festival and at the Académie Jaroussky, where she has benefited from the guidance of Anne le Bozec, James Bailieu, Erik Battaglia, Anne Sophie von Otter, Thomas Quasthoff and Philippe Jaroussky.
Michèle Bréant is a member of the Académie de l'Opéra-Comique in the class of 2024/2025.
