SOPRANO
Patricia Petibon
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GALLERY
BIOGRAPHY
Coloratura soprano Patricia Petibon was discovered by William Christie after her training at the Paris Conservatoire under Rachel Yakar. She has since established herself as one of the most versatile singers of her generation, with a repertoire ranging from French baroque to Contemporary music. Key milestones in her career include Olympia (Les Contes d'Hoffmann) at the Vienna State Opera, Blondchen (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) at the Opernhaus Zürich, Giunia (Lucio Silla) in Barcelona and Madrid, Morgana (Alcina) at La Scala in Milan, Aspasia (Mitridate, re di Ponto) at the Theater an der Wien and in Munich, and Despina (Così fan tutte) at the Salzburg Festival.
She celebrated notable success as Giunia (Lucio Silla) at the Theater an der Wien under Nikolaus Harnoncourt, with whom she shared a strong musical affinity. Her interpretation of Berg's Lulu received international acclaim at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Salzburg Festival and the Liceu in Barcelona, while additional highlights of her career have included Massenet’s Manon in Vienna, Geneva and Paris, Debussy’s Mélisande and Blanche (Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites) at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris. A testament to her exceptional vocal and theatrical versatility, in recent seasons she performed all four female roles in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann at La Monnaie in Brussels, while marking a magnificent role debut with Poulenc's La Voix Humaine and Thierry Escaich's Point d'Orgue, directed by Olivier Py at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. She returned in a widely anticipated revival of the production in 2026.
Notable engagements in recent seasons include a new production of La Voix humaine at the Opéra national du Rhin, directed by Katie Mitchell, as well as Pelléas et Mélisande with the Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Iván Fischer, and Così fan tutte at the Théâtre du Châtelet and in a concert version with the Orchestre national de Lyon. In 2024, she made her role debut as Mère Marie in Olivier Py's production of Dialogues des Carmélites at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, while last season she appeared in concert performances of de Falla's La Vida Breve at the Angers Nantes Opera. Continuing her close association with La Voix humaine on the concert stage, she celebrated recent successes with the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon and the Norrlandsoperans Symphony Orchestra in Sweden.
Patricia Petibon maintains her close musical relationship with Héloïse Gaillard and the French baroque ensemble Amarillis, with whom she regularly tours concert programmes such as "Destins de Reines" and "Flammes des Magiciennes" both in France and overseas. They most recently appeared at the Seoul Arts Center in South Korea. Further important artistic collaborators throughout her career have included Alain Altinoglu, Giovanni Antonini and Il Giardino Armonico, Bertrand de Billy, Ivor Bolton, Frédéric Chaslin, Myung-Whun Chung, Emmanuelle Haïm and Le Concert d'Astrée, Daniel Harding, Kristjan Järvi, Louis Langrée, Andrea Marcon and La Cetra, Venice Baroque Orchestra, Josep Pons, François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles, Christophe Rousset, Jérémie Rohrer and Paavo Järvi.
On the concert and recital stage, she continues to create innovative programmes balancing French mélodie and classical art songs with regional folk traditions from Brittany, Auvergne, Spain and the British Isles. Last season she appeared in Strasbourg, Lyon, Madrid and Bordeaux for trio recitals with Susan Manoff and Christian-Pierre La Marca, while previous seasons have taken her to Aix-en-Provence, the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, the Salzburg Festival, Geneva, Dortmund, Hamburg, Berlin, London's Wigmore Hall, Edinburgh, Luxembourg, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Granada and Bilbao.
From 2008 to 2016, Patricia Petibon was an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist. During this period she released a recording of arias by Gluck, Mozart and Haydn with Concerto Köln and Daniel Harding, followed by Rosso, featuring Italian baroque arias with La Cetra and Andrea Marcon, and Melancolia, devoted to Spanish repertoire with the Orquesta Nacional de España under Josep Pons. In 2012, she released Nouveau Monde, a programme of baroque arias and songs recorded with La Cetra and Andrea Marcon. This was followed in 2014 by La Belle Excentrique, a recording of French mélodies that received numerous awards. Her subsequent Sony Music releases include L'amour, la mort, la mer and La Traversée, both recorded with La Cetra and Andrea Marcon.
A growing advocate for young singers, Patricia Petibon founded the Academy “Les Chants d'Ulysse” at the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud and the Théâtre Le Dôme in Saumur, together with Héloïse Gaillard, providing a platform for students, singers, musicians and emerging professionals to develop their artistic careers. She is invited regularly to give masterclasses at the Académie Ravel in St Jean de Luz and at the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg, and joined pianist James Baillieu as duo-in-residence at the Lied Basel festival. Patricia Petibon has been a professor of Opera and performing arts at the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels since 2026.
2026 | 2027
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DISCOGRAPHY
Thierry Escaich: Cantata "Tombeau pour Alienor"
Thierry Escaich: "Tombeau pour Alienor & Werke von Henri Purcell
Patricia Petibon, Ensemble Amarillis & Héloïse Gaillard
Label: Evidence muscis | 2025
La Traversée
Arias by Henry Purcell, Stefano Landi, Georg Friedrich Händel, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi and Jacques Offenbach
La Cetra Barockorchester Basel & Andrea Marcon
Label: Sony Music Entertainment France | 2022
L'amour, la mort, la mer
Works by Jean Cras, Nicolas Bacri, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Gabriel Fauré, Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, Yann Tiersen, Ariel Ramirez, Joaquin Rodrigo, Enrique Granados, Thiery Escaich, Francisco Mignone, Reynaldo Hahn, Robert Baska and John Lennon
Susan Manoff, piano | David Venitucci, accordeon | Olivier Py, vocals
Ronan Bebars, bigpipes | Philippe Marchand, alias Yula S, percussion
Label: Sony Classical | 2020
La Belle Excentrique
Works by Erik Satie, Léo Ferré, Francis Poulenc, Manuel Rosenthal, Gabriel Fauré, Reynaldo Hahn, Francine Cockenpot
Piano: Susan Manoff
Label: Deutsche Grammophon | 2014
VIDEOS
CALENDAR
A unique opportunity to immerse yourself in artistic mentorship at the highest level.
Leading international masters of classical music pass on their knowledge, high standards, and vision to the young artists at the academy.
Do come along to this exceptional concert to mark the centenary of our society, ‘Les Amis de la Musique d’Epernay’, which was founded in 1926 by Gabriel COLLARD.
His grandson Jean-Philippe COLLARD, the “Nicolas de Grigny” choir and the internationally renowned singer Patricia PETIBON look forward to presenting festive pieces by Satie, Offenbach, Poulenc, Bizet, Verdi and others…
Patricia Petibon, soprano
Jean-Philippe Collard, piano
Choeur Nicolas de Grigny
Jean-Marie Puissant, conductor
Claude Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
With her sublime voice and as a globally acclaimed artist who is equally at home in the opera repertoire as she is in art song, pop, or jazz, the magnificent Patricia Petibon needs no introduction today. She takes the stage at Saint-Guillaume for the first time to portray one of her greatest roles: Mélisande.
FURTHER INFORMATION & TICKETSCONTACT
Representation: World
- Helga Machreich-Unterzaucher
- +43 (0)5 06 80-012
- machreich@machreich-artists.com
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