Géraldine Chauvet
Géraldine Chauvet is a French operatic mezzo-soprano.Early life
She was born in Bayeux and studied music at the University of Tours, initially specializing in flute and piano. She studied singing with Udo Reinmann, later with Mezzosoprano Grace Bumbry in Salzburg and finally with Mezzosoprano Brigitte Fassbaender.Career
Chauvet came to world attention in 2009, appearing in Carmen at the Arena di Verona conducted by Placido Domingo with the stage direction of Franco Zeffirelli.
In 2011 she debuted in the US, first at Avery Fisher Hall as Adriano in Rienzi by Wagner and six months later at the Metropolitan Opera House as Sesto in La clemenza di Tito by Mozart. She also debuted in Asia : China, Japan, South Korea & United Arab Emirates performing:
- Samson et Dalila as Dalila, in Seoul, together with José Cura as Samson
- Carmen, in Tokyo, together with Placido Domingo as Don José, with TV Broadcast, released on DVD
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia as Rosina, in Oman at the National Opera
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia as Rosina, at the Pechino National Opera Beijing
Performances 2008 - 2019
- Adalgisa in Norma at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and the Teatro de Palma de Mallorca
- Soloist in Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle with the Fondazione Arturo Toscanini in Parma
- Donna Anna in Pacini's Don Giovanni Tenorio at the Rossini in Wildbad Festival
- Emilia in Rossini's Otello, Rossini in Wildbad Festival, recorded by Naxos
- The title role in Carmen at Teatro Comunale Luciano Pavarotti in Modena, the Ravenna Festival and the Arena di Verona conducted by Plácido Domingo
- Charlotte in Werther at Teatro F.Cilea in Italy, beside Giuseppe Filianoti, conducted by Alain Guingal
- Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at the Arena of Avenches in Swisse
- Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Opera Giocosa of Savona in Italy
- Carmen with Plácido Domingo as Don Josè at the Forum Halle A in Tokyo, in the Domingo Gala, released on DVD
- Il diluvio universale by Donizetti at the St.Gallen Staadttheater
- Requiem by Donizetti at St.Gallen Festspiele
- Carmen at Arena di Verona
- Adalgisa in Norma at Festival du Theatre Antique de Sanxay
- Carmen at the Grand Theatre de Bordeaux
- Il Postino at Theater an der Wien conducted by Jesus Lopez Cobos
- Carmen at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples,Mischa van Hoecke, Alain Guingal, television broadcast
- Carmen at "Les Soirées Lyriques de Sanxay" of the Festival de Sanxay
- Samson et Dalila with Josè Cura, Sejong Cultural Center of Seoul
- Opera on Ice' at the Arena di Verona
- Les dialogues des Carmelites at the Opéra de Massy 2012
- Rienzi, New York
- Romeo et Juliettte by Berlioz, Netherlands Television Symphony Orchestra of Amsterdam and Utrecht
- Nabucco at Washington National Opera
- Zerlina in Don Giovanni, opening night of the 2012 season at the Arena di Verona,
- Rienzi at the Theatre du Capitole de Toulouse
- Sesto in La clemenza di Tito, Metropolitan Opera debut
- Les Dialogues des Carmelites at the Grand Opèra de Bordeaux
- Jenufa at the Opéra d'Avignon
- Verdi Requiem at the in USA
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the in China, on 2013
- Nabucco at the
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the of Oman
- Verdi Requiem at the in
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the
- Roberto Devereux at the with
- Charlotte Salomon at the
- Opera Gala at the with TV Broadcast
- Carmen at the with
Among her Engagements in the Season 2015 - 2016 - 2017 :
- La damnation de Faust as Margherita at the Opéra de Bordeaux
- Hamlet as Reine Gertrude at the Opéra d'Avignon
- Carmen at the Washington National Opera
- La Gioconda as Laura at the Theatre Municipal de Santiago de Chile
- Carmen at the Herodius Atticus of Athens
- Gala at the Spanish Castle of Praha
- Carmen at the Goteborg Sweden Opera
- La Gioconda as Laura at the Malmo Operan
- Cavalleria Rusticana as Santuzza at the Opera du Rhin de Strasbourg
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann as Nicklauss at The Metropolitan Opera of New York
- Nabucco as Fenena at Arena di Verona
- Carmen at Arena di Verona
- UPCOMING DATES 2019
- Nabucco as Fenena at Hamburg Staatsoper
- Don Giovanni by Mozart, as Donna Elvira at Innsbruck Landestheater
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann as Giulietta at Lausanne Opera
