Karine Deshayes |
Karine Deshayes
Opera star Karine Deyet is one of the most sought-after singers in France today, the winner of many vocal competitions. Twice – in 2011 and in May 2016 – she won the most prestigious French national award in the field of academic music: Les Victoires de la musique in the Best Opera Singer nomination.
The owner of a spectacular mezzo-soprano with a light silvery soprano “shine”, perfectly equipped technically, she is equally brilliant and fluent in bel canto, baroque, classical, romantic and modern repertoire.
The decision to become a singer Karin Deye took after graduating from the philological and musical faculties of the Sorbonne. She entered the vocal department of the National Conservatory in Paris, where she studied with the famous professor Mireille Alcantara. At the National Opera of Lyon, where Karine began her career, she immediately received the main roles: Cherubino (Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro), Squirrels and Cats (Ravel’s Child and Magic), Clarina (Rossini’s Marriage Promissory Note), Nancy ( Albert Herring” by Britten), Cupid (“Orpheus in Hell” by Offenbach), Stefano (“Romeo and Juliet” by Gounod), Rosina (“The Barber of Seville” by Rossini). Possessing a bright natural acting talent, she quickly won critical acclaim and the love of the public.
The world career of the singer also developed rapidly: the Metropolitan Opera, the Real Theater in Madrid, the Salzburg Festival, the Liceo Theater in Barcelona, the San Francisco Opera, solo concerts at the Washington Kennedy Center … Karin Deye’s voice, her diverse repertoire attracted such famous conductors such as Kurt Masur, Riccardo Muti, Emmanuel Krivin, David Stern, Myung-Vun Chung, Roberto Abbado, famous musicians Philippe Cassar, Renaud Capuçon and many others.
In recent years, Karine Deyet has been actively collaborating with the Paris National Opera (on the stage of which she performed the parts of Carmen in the opera of the same name by Bizet, Charlotte in Massenet’s Werther, Rosina in The Barber of Seville and Elena in Rossini’s The Lady of the Lake, Siebel in Faust Gounod, Christina in Janacek’s The Makropulos Affair), the National Opera of Bordeaux, the opera houses of Nantes and Toulon (La Belle Elena by Offenbach, Elvira in Bellini’s The Puritans, Poppea in Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea staged by the world-famous director Robert Wilson). Karin Deyet’s voice is heard at the Royal Theater of Versailles and the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris (Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, conductor Daniele Gatti), at prestigious European festivals.
The singer is extremely in demand in the baroque repertoire. Conductors she has worked with include Emmanuelle Aim, Christophe Rousset, William Christie, and ensembles include Concert d’Astree, Les Arts Florissants, Il Seminario Musicale, Les Paladins, Les Talens Lyriques.
The singer’s solo programs are distinguished by a wide genre range: suffice it to recall the recent brilliant performance of the vocal cycle “Summer Nights” by Berlioz with conductor Paul Daniel in Bordeaux, the program of vocal lyrics by Fauré, Webber and Poulenc in Moscow.
In the near future, the singer’s schedule includes a concert at the Paris Philharmonic with Natalie Dessay, the role of Mary in Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites and a solo concert at the Brussels Royal Opera La Monnaie, the performance of the title roles in Rossini’s operas: Semiramide in Saint-Etienne, Cinderella on the stage of the Parisian Theater of the Champs Elysees, solo concerts.
Karin Deye has repeatedly performed in Russia. In 2012, she participated in a concert performance of Rossini’s opera The Lady of the Lake at the P.I. Tchaikovsky, in 2015 on the same stage she performed a solo concert in the subscription of the Moscow Philharmonic “Stars of the World Opera”, in 2016 she participated in the concert “Two mezzos – one passion!” in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, together with another French opera diva, Delphine Edan, and in the same year she sang the part of Charlotte in a concert performance of Massenet’s Werther at the Tchaikovsky Hall.
New solo concerts of the singer in our country will take place in 2018: March 9 on the stage of the Concert Hall. P.I. Tchaikovsky in Moscow and on March 11 in the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg State Academic Philharmonic.
After concerts in Russia, the singer is expected in New York, where she will perform on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
