LAURE DE MARCELLUS, MEZZO SOPRANO
Laure de Marcellus’ velvety timbre and riveting stage presence delight both critics and audiences. She honed her craft at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin.
She made her celebrated debut as CARMEN at the Fêtes de Genève and appeared as Dalila SAMSON ET DALILA for the Opéra Studio of Geneva’s 20th Anniversary, and for the Gabriel Fauré Festival in Annecy. She sang Brangäne in TRISTAN UND ISOLDE with the Norddeutches Philharmonie conducted by Peter Leonard.
At the Deutsche Oper, she sang such diverse roles as Maddalena RIGOLETTO with Mikhail Jurowski, Grimgerde DIE WALKÜRE with Christian Thielemann, Smeton ANNA BOLENA, Mérope OEDIPE staged by Götz Friedrich who also directed her in his final production, AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS; Third Lady DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE, Flora LA TRAVIATA.
Miss de Marcellus appeared in Berlin’s nationally televised anual gala for AIDS research under the baton of the late Marcello Viotti with Sumi Jo and Ramon Vargas.
Other roles in Miss de Marcellus’ repertoire are Eboli, DON CARLO, Orsini LUCREZIA BORGIA, Fricka DIE WALKÜRE, Waltraute GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG, Erda RHEINGOLD, Federica LUISA MILLER, Sesto CLEMENZA DI TITO and Orlofsky DIE FLEDERMAUS. Her early roles include the title role ORFEO E EURIDICE and Eustazio RINALDO.
Her collaboration with pianist Alberto Urroz is becoming a regular feature at Navarra’s Mendigorría Music Festival. After their last recital of a very well received program of songs by Schubert. Liszt and Fauré, they just performed a Schumann program to rave reviews, which they will reprise in Madrid and Geneva in March 2020 Her broad concert repertoire includes oratorios from VERDI REQUIEM to lesser-known works such as César Franck’s RÉDEMPTION or Britten’s NOAH’S ARK which she performed with Jun Märkl for Radio France. She has performed concerts in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Spain and Germany. She appeared in Beethoven’s 9th at Serbia’s Nomus festival and sang the Messiah with the Singapore Symphony.
Laure de Marcellus was born in Geneva, Switzerland, studied at the Zurich Conservatory and in Tel Aviv where she obtained a Master of Music in Vocal Performance Summa Cum Laude. Miss de Marcellus went on to New York to study with Mignon Dunn and Munich with Prof. Josef Loibl. She currently works with Atarah Hazzan. She won many prizes and scholarships, including the Migros Scholarship in Switzerland and the American Berlin Opera Scholarship.
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LAURE DE MARCELLUS, MEZZO SOPRANO
OPERATIC REPERTOIRE
Bizet: Puccini: Carmen – Carmen La Zia Principessa – Suor Angelica Suzuki – Madama Butterfly Donizetti: Orsini – Lucrezia Borgia Smeton – Anna Bolena Saint-Saëns: Dalila – Samson et Dalila Enescu: Mérope- Oedipe Schönberg: Nackte Jungfrau – Moses und Aron
Gluck: Strauss, J.: Orfeo – Orfeo ed Euridice Prinz Orlofsky – Die Fledermaus
Handel: Strauss, R.: Goffredo, Eustazio – Rinaldo I und II Mägde- Elektra
Massenet: Verdi: Charlotte – Werther Eboli – Don Carlo Ulrica – Un ballo in Maschera Menotti: Azucena – Il travatore The Mother – Amahl and the Night Visitors Amneris – Aida Maddalena – Rigoletto
Federica – Luisa Miller Mozart: Flora – La traviata Die Dritte Dame - Die Zauberflöte Sesto – La clemenza di Tito Wagner: Donna Elvira – Don Giovanni Erda – Das Rheingold Mitridate, Re di Ponto – Farnace Fricka, Grimgerde - Die Walküre Flosshilde – Das Rheingold Brangaene – Tristan und Isolde
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ORCHESTRAL/ORATORIO REPERTOIRE
Bach: Monteverdi: Johannes Passion Ballo Delle Ingrate(Venere) Matthaeus Passion Magnificat Weihnachtsoratorium Mozart: Requiem Brahms: Kroenungsmesse Alt-Rhapsodie Two songs for contralto, viola, piano, op 91 Respighi:
Il Tramonto Beethoven:
Neunte Symphonie Messe in C-Dur Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle Franck: Rédemption Scarlatti: Il Primo Omicidio (Canio) Händel: Messiah Verdi:
Requiem Mendelssohn: Elias
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CONDUCTORS
Christian Thielemann Peter Leonard Mikhail Jurowski Marco Guidarini Marcello Viotti Jean-Marie Curti Sir Lawrence Foster Kevin McCutcheon Sebastian Lang- Lessing Jonathan Webb Marc Albrecht Stefan Soltesz Jun Maerkl Jacques Mercier
OPERA HOUSES/THEATERS
Deutsche Oper Berlin Abbaye de Guebwiller Stadtheater Aachen Noga Hilton, Geneva Singapore Symphony Opéra Studio de Genève Volkstheater Rostock Festival Gabriel Fauré, Annecy
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REVIEWS
Laure de Marcellus has a large voice which is clear, flexible and warm. The timbre is lovely, and she is very expressive. (...) I have seen her in performance, and she is a ‘stage animal’. She has personality and fire. Mignon Dunn
Laure de Marcellus is the possessor of a truly remarkably creamy and beautiful voice of the most mellow quality imaginable. She should go far. Nico Castel, Metropolitan Opera
“Laure de Marcellus gives us an extraordinary voice” “the color of her voice is absolutely extraordinary” “Laure has a brightly shaded sound, always powerful and round, but, at the same time, very malleable and flexible, able to create infinite shades” “She shone with interpretive warmth, moving the audience to a point where it stopped breathing” “Laure incarnates the emotions of the first falling in love, to the widowhood of the end, going through all the nuances that apply to happiness” “We will rarely hear a voice so appropriate for these songs.” Noticias de Navarra
(…) The thin and pale Laure de Marcellus was most convincing in her characterization of the inner conflicts that tear Brangäne between helpfully soothing her mistress and leading the hand of fate in pouring the elixir of love. Her young mezzosoprano vibrated in changing timbre, in strong high notes with the clarity of a soprano and in the lower piano with an alto covered in dark velvet. (..) Ostsee Zeitung
(...)She was eagerly awaited, she did not disappoint. Auditioned among dozens of her colleagues to play the part of Carmen, Laure de Marcellus, though she does not show a terrifying ogress, gives a lot of grace and sensuality to Bizet’s cigarette girl. It is she who dominates (the) cast… (…) Tribune de Genève
(...) To stage Carmen means to choose a good Carmen. And Laure de Marcellus, picked by Jean-Marie Curti after multiple auditions is a gypsy of the best vintage, rich of a sensuality and vocal presence which make her an ideal Carmen. Gifted with an exceptional dramatic temperament, the young singer brings a vocal and stage presence to her part which give her character an astonishing psychological depth made of freedom, passion, exacerbated sensuality, pride, generosity and fatalism. In short, an immense Carmen(...) Le Progrès
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REVIEWS(Cont.)
(...) His Carmen, Laure de Marcellus, was amazing. Picked after multiple auditions, she demonstrated her charisma, giving a psychological depth to her character. In turn passionate, proud,generous,touching, her vocal presence and her acting madethis opera performance into a vintage edition.(...) Voix de l”Ain
(…)The surprise of the evening was the Smeton sung by the scholarship recipient Laure de Marcellus (what many beautiful voices the Deutsche Oper has thus discovered!), with a through and through intact, healthy, young and solid mezzo soprano as well as appealing acting. (…) Orpheus Opera International
(…) Laure de Marcellus, was a youthful beautiful Mérope, with a colored and smooth mezzo soprano – the house had a happy hand again in the search for young talent.(…) Orpheus Opera International
(…) Laure de Marcellus was a superb Dalila, a mixture of softness and violence, and sustained with brio one of the most beautiful lyrical mezzo roles of the repertoire (…) Dauphiné Libéré
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