Clémentine Margaine

French mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine has won international acclaim in recent seasons on both sides of the Atlantic, appearing at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Rome Opera and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, to name but four of the houses where she has sung. During the 2015/16 she appeared as Carmen at the Washington National Opera, the Canadian Opera Company, the Rome Opera and Opera Australia in Sydney. As a concert artist she was heard last season in Mendelssohn’s Elijah in the Vienna Musikverein with the Orchestre National de France under Daniele Gatti and in Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette with the SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra of Stuttgart under Stéphane Denève.
Following her Salzburg Festival debut in Il templario, Clémentine Margaine will be appearing as Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera and the Paris Opéra, as Dulcinée (Don Quichotte) at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and as Sara (Roberto Devereux) in a return visit to the Bavarian State Opera. Further ahead she will be singing Concepción in a new production of Ravel’s L’Heure espagnole at Cologne Opera and will make her Dresden State Opera debut as Carmen.
Shortly after graduating from the Paris Conservatoire, Clémentine Margaine was named ‘Révélation classique’ by the Adami and was awarded the special jury prize at the International Singing Competition in Marmande. She then joined the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, where she sang her first Carmen, a role for which she is now internationally famous and has sung in Munich, Rome, Naples, Washington, Dallas, Toronto and elsewhere. Other roles in Berlin have included Marguerite in a new production of La Damnation de Faust and Dalila in Samson et Dalila. Her debut at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in 2015 also marked her role debut as Charlotte (Werther).
As a concert artist Clémentine Margaine has been heard in Elijah in Berlin, in Mozart’s Requiem in Lisbon and in Verdi’s Requiem in Budapest. Among the operatic roles that she is currently preparing are Fidès (Le Prophète), Zayda (Donizetti’s Dom Sébastien), Gertrude (Hamlet) and Amneris (Aida).

Current as of August 2016