Katia Velletaz

Katia Velletaz Soprano Katia Velletaz voice & ballet first at the Conservatoire de Chambery and then at the Conservatoire in Geneva, graduating in 2002. Even while she was studying, Katia began to sing with well known conductors, such as Michel Corboz with whom she sang Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium, and started to perform roles in her baroque operas, such as Caccini’s La Liberazione di Ruggiero d’ll’isola d’Alcina, Cavalli’s La Virtu i strali d’Amore and Les Indes Galantes by Rameau, all with Maestro Gabriel Garrido. She also sang Sandrina La Finta Giardiniera, Carolina Il Matrimonio Segreto and Nella Gianni Schicchi with l’Opéra de Chambre de Geneve and Soler’s La Capricciosa Corretta with Christophe Rousset. After graduating, Katia quickly sang principal roles at many French théâtres, including the Opéra National de Bordeaux, the Opéra Comique and Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, Angers- Nantes Opéra, Opéra de Lille, Opéra de Rennes, le Theatre de Caen and l’Opéra Royal de Versailles. These roles included Argie in Rameau’s Les Paladins, Acis Acis and Galatea, Zerlina Don Giovanni, Papagena Die Zauberflöte, La Princesse/La chauve sourisi l’Enfant et les Sortileges, Zoraide in Francoeur and Rebel’s Pirame et Thisbée, and Lucie in Menotti’s The Telephone. She also sang outside France at the Opéra de Lausanne, as well as in Madrid, Baden-Baden and Vienna in roles like Sandrina, Nella and Isabelle in La Capricciosa Corretta. At the Grand Theatre de Geneve she sang Taumänchen/Sandmännchen Hänsel und Gretel (conducted by Armin Jordan), La Musica/Euridice in Monteverdi’s Orfeo and Shepherd Tannhäuser (conducted by Ulf Schirmer). Maestro Schirmer then invited Katia to sing in Tosca and Krenek’s Karl V at the Bregenzer Festspiele. Katia’s récent operatic roles have included Procris in Gretry’s Céphale et Procris at the Opéra Royal de Versailles, Oriane in Lully’s Amadis at the Opéra d’Avignon, Ninette l’Amour des Trois Oranges in Limoges and Dijon, Serpina La Serva Padrona at the Opéra de Lausanne, Meala in Kreutzer’s La Mort d’Abel, Erste Dame Die Zauberflöte at the Grand Theatre de Geneve and Oriane in J.C. Bach’s Amadis de Gaule in Prague and Bratislava. In 2011/2012 Katia returned to the Opéra Royal de Versailles for opéras by Gretry and Sacchini with Le Concert Spirituel, conducted by Hervé Niquet, extracts from Iphigenie en Aulide (in the title rôle) and the title rôle in Polyxene by Dauvergne conducted by David Stern and Leonore in Dauvergne’s La Venitienne, as well recording Thesée by Gossec (conducted by Guy Van Waas) and Renaud by Sacchini (conducted by Christophe Rousset). In that year, Katia also sang Euridice in Gluck’s Orfee et Euridice with the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, conducted by N. Galvin. Katia’s most recent projects have included collaborating once again with Christophe Rousset in Salieri’s Les Danaides in Vienna, Versaille and Metz, and with Guy Van Waas in Gretry’s La Caravane du Caire at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liege, as well as reprising the role of Erste Dame Die Zauberflöte at Angers-Nantes Opéra. Mark Kendall Artists Management Ltd 56 St. Anselm’s Road, Worthing, West Sussex BN14 7EN Tel: +44 (0)1903 233 229 Mobile: + 44 (0)7525 916 598 www.markkendallartists.com email: [email protected] Company No. 6512351 .

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