>>>Praised for her “chameleon voice” (France Musique), mezzo-soprano Albane Carrère shines equally in chamber music projects and large-scale opera productions.

 

Described as “the embodiment of a female artist,” “moving and ideal, with a warm, deep, and rounded voice, in perfect dramatic and lyrical harmony with the role” (Resmusica), her performance in the title role of The Woman in Jean-Luc Fafchamps' world premiere at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie earned her praise from the international press.

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>>> In the audiovisual field, Albane Carrère has appeared on France 3 in the TV program Musiques en Fête, broadcast live from the Théâtre Antique des Chorégies d'Orange, and in the program Fauteuil d'Orchestre. She has been recorded during live concerts by Radio Classique, Musiq3, Arte Live Web, the BBC, and France Musique, and has released a Mozart album with Les Flamands Noirs and a Schubert album with Alfama, which won the 2020 Octaves de la musique classique award. Her album Il est quelqu'un sur terre, released in June 2022, and her recent Karl Weigl recordings, released in 2023 and 2024 with the Mark Rothko ensemble on Urania Records, have received rave reviews in the European press (ranked in Le Monde newspaper and awarded 5 consecutive Diapasons). 

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>>>This season (2025/2026), we will hear her in the opera role of Carmen on tour in China with the musicians of the Paris Opera Orchestra, in the role of Emilia (Otello, Verdi) at the Catania Opera, and in the title role of Maria de Buenos Aires by Piazzolla at the Lecce Opera in Italy. She will also give concerts in duos and trios (Kiki in Paris, Voyages with Hors Saison, Barbara with Contraste, Schubert with La Maison Illuminée, etc.) and at Les Invalides for a grand baroque evening with Debora Waldman. Alongside her artistic activities, she will teach vocal chamber music at the Royal Conservatory of Mons (Arts au Carré) and will be a member of the jury for the 2025 Mâcon International Opera Singing Competition. 

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>>>Last season (2024/2025), she released her new album, Kiki à Paris, on the Cypres label, featuring Elsa de Lacerda on violin and Magali Rischette on guitar. 

At the opera, we hear her in the role of Flora at the Avignon Opera, Carmen on tour in China, Kate Pinkerton at the Lyon Opera, Clara Wieck in Espace Fluide at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, and Zerlina in Don Giovanni at the Catania Opera in Italy. 

In concert, she sings Rossini's Stabat Mater at the Vocal Festival in Pristina (Kosovo), Berio's Folksongs at the Catania Opera, Barbara on tour with the Ensemble Contraste, Kiki in Paris on tour from the Bal Blomet, Schubert with La Maison Illuminée, Weigl with the Ensemble Mark Rothko, and Berlioz with pianist Maciej Pikulski. She also gives masterclasses and lectures on opera at the conservatories of Thionville and Mons, and at the Lycées Gaston Berger and Faidherbe in Lille.

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>>> But let's take a step back:

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Mezzo-soprano Albane Carrère was born in Vienna, Austria.

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>>> After earning a master's degree in sociology (2005), she enrolled at the Royal Conservatory of Music and the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Brussels (2005-2010). She then perfected her skills at the European Opera Center, in masterclasses with Teresa Berganza, Nadine Denize, and Ann Murray, at the Academy of Music of the Aix-en-Provence Festival, and with Claudine Hunault for stage direction. 

 

 

>>> In 2005, the Belgian opera festival “Solistes au Domaine” invited her to perform alongside Barbara Hendricks, José Van Dam, and Yvan Rebroff. She also sings regularly in concerts at the Brussels Summer Festival, the Nuits musicales de Beloeil, the Festival de l'Eté Mosan, the Midis-Minimes, the Festival de Stavelot, and the Bozar in Brussels.

>>> She made her opera debut in 2008 at the Ghent Opera in the role of Mallika (Lakmé by Delibes), then in the musical The Sound of Music in the role of Maria at the Palais des Beaux-Arts and the Forum in Liège.

 

>>> In 2010, she was cast in the title role of Massenet's Thérèse at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie (Liège) and was invited several times to the Progetto Martha Argerich in Switzerland to perform the role of Samantha in Alexis Weissenberg's La Fugue, accompanied by Martha Argerich.

>>> Between 2010 and 2012, she was awarded the status of soloist in residence at the Opéra de Rouen. This led to roles such as: the Second Lady (Mozart's Die Zauberflöte) at the Opéra de Toulon, Karolka (Leoš Janáček's Jenufa), Mrs. Grose (Britten's The Turn of the Screw) and Flora (Verdi's La Traviata) at the Opéra de Versailles.

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>>> In 2013-2014, her career took a new turn with a world premiere: Benoît Mernier's La Dispute at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, in the role of Adine. She then sang as a soloist at the Théâtre Antique des Chorégies d'Orange with the Orchestre Lyrique d'Avignon. This was followed by Zerlina (Mozart's Don Giovanni) in Tours and Reims, as well as for the Festival Opéra en plein air (directed by Patrick Poivre d'Arvor), Mercédès in Carmen, and Lucienne (Die Tote Stadt, Korngold) at the Opéra de Nantes and the Opéra national de Lorraine.
>>> She also performs in concerts, notably in Paris at the Petit Palais and the Cité de la Musique with Opera Fuoco, at the Opéra de Toulon, in Bordeaux with CroisiEurope, in Saint Petersburg, and in Sweden with the Contraste ensemble.

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>>> In 2015-2016, she appeared on France 3 in the very first edition of the program Fauteuils d'Orchestre alongside Ruggero Raimondi. She premiered Purcell's The Fairy Queen with the Contraste ensemble at the Metz Opera, before performing the Fox in Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen at the Amphitheatre Bastille, Mercedes in Carmen at the Grand Avignon Opera, La Tsigane in Janáček's Le Journal d'un Disparu, and then the title role of Donna in the world premiere of Peter Eötvös' Senza Sangue under his direction at the Opéra Grand Avignon, the Gothenburg Concert Hall in Sweden, and the Armel Festival Opera in Budapest.

>>> 2017-2018: Revival of the title role of Donna in Peter Eötvös' Senza Sangue under his direction in London, at the Barbican and then at the Hackney Empire, Garcias in Don Quichotte at the Opéra de Bordeaux, Cunégonde in Le Roi Carotte at the Opéra de Lille, Clotilde in Norma at the Opéra de Saint-Etienne, Rouen, and at the Muscat Opera (Oman), Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Bordeaux Opera, Marie in Moïse et Pharaon at the Rossini Festival in Bad Wildbad, and toured with the Contraste ensemble in Pergolesi's Stabat Mater.

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>>> 2018-2019: Cherubino in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in Avignon, Enrichetta di Francia in I puritani, Bersi in Andrea Chenier at the Verdi Theater in Trieste, Concepcion in Ravel's L'Heure Espagnole in Cannes with Musical Guest, Marguerite in Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust at the Phénix in Valenciennes with Miroirs Étendus, Berlioz's Les Nuits d'Eté at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées with the L'amoureux orchestra and at the Besançon Festival, and Le Cosmicomiche at the Toulon Opera, a world premiere by Michèle Reverdy.

>>> 2019-2020: Annina in Verdi's La Traviata on a Japanese tour in Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya; Cherubino in Mozart's Les Petites Noces in French in a production at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, the Rouen Opera, and the Avignon Opera; Suzuki in Puccini's Madame Butterfly during a tour of southern Italy with Les Frivolités Parisiennes, Saint-Saëns' Requiem and Martin Palmeri's La Creacion in Paris with the Vittoria choir, Robert and Clara Schumann recital on a Belgian-French tour with Etienne Rappe, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with the Rosasolis Ensemble, Mozart concerts with Contraste.

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>>> 2020 - 2021: Educational concert-lectures given in high schools and schools in Lille during the pandemic. Role of The Woman at La Monnaie in Brussels in the world premiere of Is this the End? by Jean-Luc Fafchamps. Mezzo solo in Reverdy's Cosmicomiche at the Nice Opera, debut in the role of Carmen at the Catania Opera and Annina in La Traviata for the Sky Classica channel. Mezzo solo in Rossini's Stabat Mater at the Catania Opera, then on tour in Belgium with Schumann, Strauss, and Berio's Folksongs. In France, Berlioz concerts on tour with Contraste.

>>> 2021-2022: Opera and educational concerts in Geneva with the Rencontres Lyriques de Genève, in Soissons and Royan for Mozart's “Leçon de musique” with Contraste, Pergolesi's “Stabat Mater” with La Maison Illuminée. Beethoven's Ninth in Paris, Amiens, and Geneva with the Geneva Chamber Orchestra and the Picardie Orchestra. In opera, Cherubino in Les petites noces at the Toulon Opera, Idamante in Mozart's Idomeneo at the Avignon Opera, and finally The Woman, the title role in Is this the end, Part 2, by Jean-Luc Fafchamps at the Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie in Brussels.

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>>> During the 2022/2023 season, she will perform in various concerts, including “Paris mes amours” with the Liège Philharmonic Orchestra, “Il est quelqu'un sur terre” based on the CD released in June 2022 in collaboration with Jean-Luc Fafchamps, Nicolas Krüger, and Sébastien Walnier, “Le Travesti, un genre d'opéra” (Spa, Namur) with Scherzi Musicali, “Âme Slave” with La Belle Saison and the Hélios trio (at the theaters of Blois, Cherbourg, St Dizier, Coulommiers, and Les Bouffes du Nord in Paris), the world premiere of Jean-Luc Fafchamps' Symphony No. 1 “Ombres Célestes” at Bozar in Brussels, and an Offenbach concert on tour at the Théâtre de Namur with Jean-Luc Votano. In opera, she sang the role of Cherubino in “The Marriage of Figaro” in Sicily at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania and that of Mercedes in “Carmen” at the Opéra de Toulon. Finally, she created the lead role of Clara Wieck in Espace Fluide by Benjamin Hamon and released a Karl Weigl album with the Italian ensemble Mark Rothko on Urania Records in March 2023.

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>>>In the 2023/2024 season, she will play the roles of La Tasse, La Libellule, and Le Pâtre in Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortilèges at the Avignon Opera House and then in Tours. She then reprises the role of Annina in Italy in La Traviata at the Catania Opera House before closing the season in the role of Kate Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly, Puccini) at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.  

In concert, we hear her in rich and varied programs such as Caplet's Miroir de Jésus with the Normandy Regional Orchestra, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with La Maison Illuminée, in eclectic trios of voice/cello/accordion and voice/guitar/violin, and in the repertoire of her recordings released by Cyprès: Il est quelqu’un sur terre, Still Schubert, and Folksongs by Berio/Rens (PBA in Charleroi, Bozar, Midis-Minimes in Liège, etc.).

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