Season 2017-18
Season 2017-18
ELODIE
FONNARD
soprano
"Soprano Élodie Fonnard also impressed with crystalline sound and well-executed trills"
San Francisco Classical Voice, USA
"That did not stop soprano Élodie Fonnard as Charpentier's Diane from commanding the stage every time she moved, even before she sang a note. And when those notes came, they were large, secure, soaring, florid, and intoxicating"
Sean and Heard International, Los Angeles, Walt Disney Hall
“A true voluptuous siren (…), Elodie Fonnard is a suave Galatea with a bewitching charisma.”classicnews.com
“Glorious singing from soprano Elodie Fonnard in the title role.”
The Scotsman, Edinburgh
“The clear-voiced soprano Élodie Fonnard (…) demonstrated admirable facility with the style. Ms. Fonnard sang poignantly in her expressive rendition of the anguished “Ah, Rinaldo" from Lully's opera Armide.”
NY Times
BIOGRAPHY
Revealed by William Christie's Jardin des Voix 2011, soprano Élodie Fonnard has since performed with Les Arts Florissants : Flora in Atys by Lully, Belinda in Dido & Aeneas by Purcell, Galatea in Acis & Galatea by Händel, Les Fêtes Vénitiennes de Campra, Rameau Maître à Danser...
She sings at the Philharmonie de Paris, at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, at the Bolshoi in Moscow, at the Lincoln Center in New York, at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, at the Forbidden City Hall in Beijing, and on the most great stages of Europe and Latin America. She also performs in recital with William Christie as harpsichordist and has the opportunity to work with stage directors such as Robert Carsen, Andreas Homoki, Denis Podalydès, Eric Ruf & Clément Hervieu-Léger from La Comédie Française, Sophie Daneman, Maëlle Poésy.
In addition to the baroque repertoire, Élodie gives recitals of Lieder and melodies in particular with the pianist David Saudubray (Musikfestspiele de Potsdam). She also works with composers (Krzysztof Penderecki, Marc-Olivier Dupin, Suzanne Giraud).
Trained as a pianist, Élodie studied with Luc Coadou, Alain Buet, Sophie Hervé, Howard Crook and Kenneth Weiss.
Le Concert d'Astrée (Emmanuelle Haïm) and Le Poème Harmonique (Vincent Dumestre) gave her her first roles.
Among her recent engagements, let us quote the creation of the Chant du marais by Suzanne Giraud, with the writer Pascal Quignard and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France , the title role in Orphée & Eurydice by Glück at the Opéra de Dijon (direction Iñaki Encina Oyón), Diane in Actaeon by Charpentier in Los Angeles, Eurydice in The Descent of Orpheus into Hell by Charpentier, and Venus in Psyche by Matthew Locke with Ensemble Correspondances (Sébastien Daucé), Leonore Prohaska by Beethoven at the Opera de Montpellier (conducted by Laurence Equilbey), the Petite Messe Solennelle by Rossini with the choir Aedes and the pianist Jean-Claude Pennetier, as well as recitals with Les Solistes du Concert d'Astrée, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien (François Lazarevitch), Les Folies Françoises (Patrick Cohën-Akenine), La Simphonie du Marais (Hugo Reyne), Suonare e Cantare (Jean Gaillard), Alia Mens (Olivier Spilmont), Les Timbres (M. Rignol, J. Wolfs, Y. Kawakubo).
Her discography includes several operas by Rameau, Charpentier, Lully, Destouches and Delalande, as well as sacred works and Airs de Cour with Les Arts Florissants, Surprises and Ensemble Correspondances.
REPERTOIRE
OPERA
Bellini
Capuleti and Montecchi : Giulietta
Bizet
Carmen : Frasquita
Britton
The turn of the screw : Governor
chabrier
The king in spite of himself : Minka
Carpenter
Acteon : Diana
David and Jonathan : Jonathan
Medea : Creusa
Dauvergne
The barterers : Margot
Debussy
Pelléas and Mélisande : Melisande
The Prodigal Son : Lia
Dvorak
Rusalka : Lesní zínky
Glück
Orfeo ed Euridice : Euridice
Iphigenia in Tauride : Diana
Iphigenia in Aulide : Iphigenia
Alceste : Alceste
Armida : Armide
Handel
Acis & Galatea : Galatea
Agrippina : Poppea
Giulio Cesare : Cleopatra
Serse : Atalanta / Romilda
Lully
Atys : Sangaride
Cadmus & Hermione : Hermione
Phaeton : Théone
Theseus : Aeglé
Monteverdi
The Orfeo : La Musica
L'incoronazione di Poppea : Poppea
mozart
Tito's clemenza : Vitellia
Così fan tutte : Despina
Don Giovanni : Donna Anna / Zerlina
Idomeneo : Ilia
Le nozze di Figaro : Susanna / Cherunino
He repastores : Tamiri
Zaide : Zaide
Die Zauberflote : Pamina / Papagena
Purcell
Dido & Aeneas : Belinda/Dido
The Fairy Queen : soprano
King Arthur : soprano
Branch
The Boreads : Alphisa
Castor and Pollux : Telaira
Daphnis & Egle : Egle
Dardanus : Iphisius
Hippolyte & Aricie : Aricie
Les Indes Galantes
Pigmalion : The statue
Ravel
The child and the spells : The child
Rossini
The Cenerentola : Clorinda
Il Signor Bruschino : Sofia
Il Turco in Italy : Fiorilla
Saint-Saens
The yellow princess : Lena
Weber
Der Freischütz : Ännchen
ORCHESTRa
Oratorio / Orchestra
Bach
BWV 51 Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen
Messe en si mineur
Magnificat
Passion selon Saint-Jean
Brahms
Requiem
Dvorák
Stabat Mater
Requiem
Haendel
Messiah
Jephtha : Iphis
Susanna : Susanna
Theodora : Theodora
Lidarti
Esther : Esther
Haydn
Die Jahreszeiten : Hanne
Die Schöpfung
Mahler
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Mozart
Requiem
Mendelssohn
Elias
Ein Sommernachtstraum
Poulenc
Stabat Mater
La dame de Monte Carlo
Ravel
Shéhérazade
Les histoires naturelles (Orchestrées par O. Kaspar)
Rossini
La petite messe solennelle
Saint-Saëns
Oratorio de Noël
PRESS
"Excellent Élodie Fonnard, fairly light tone and full of charm, beautiful articulation, but above all incandescent dramatic temperament; her afflicted woman takes you to the guts, what intensity! We cannot detach ourselves from this song (...) We would be hard pressed to find faults to Élodie Fonnard, who, undoubtedly, must be one of the great voices, better still, one of the great personalities who can defend this repertoire "- Loïc Chahine
"Soprano Élodie Fonnard also impressed with crystalline sound and well-executed trills" - San Francisco Classical Voice, USA
"That did not stop soprano Élodie Fonnard as Charpentier's Diane from commanding the stage every time she moved, even before she sang a note. And when those notes came, they were large, secure, soaring, florid, and intoxicating" - Sean and Heard International, Los Angeles, Walt Disney Hall
"Elodie Fonnard notably delivered a superb interpretation of the famous monologue by Armide" - Forum opera
"As delicious actress as she is a fine musician" - bienpublic.com
"Elodie Fonnard is an accomplished Eurydice, with round and clear notes in the midrange, and a treble as sparkling as it is slender" - opera-online.com
"The voice is clear, fresh, fulfilled, and the last act allows us to appreciate its vigor and fragility, in the service of an expression always correct" - forumopera.com
“The bright and balletic Elodie Fonnard” - NY Times
"Extraordinary of naturalness and articulation" - La Libre.be
“William Christie brought 2 stupendous singers: soprano Elodie Fonnard and baritone Marc Mauillon, who not only sang but also acted their cantatas with the grace of ballet dancers. It was all indecently gorgeous. ” - Mexico
“La joven soprano revelación Elodie Fonnard, quien igualmente ha sido embajadora activa de la cultura francesa alrededor del mundo” - La Republica, Columbia
“In sopraan Elodie Fonnard zingen by sterren van de hemel” - oblivionsoave.com
“Elodie Fonnard, as an angel, was divine. The voice is at the same time clear, supple and beautifully warm. Each sentence is interpreted with fervor and sensitivity. ” - ClassiqueInfo.com
“True voluptuous siren (…), Elodie Fonnard is a suave Galatea with a bewitching charisma.” - classiquenews.com
“Glorious singing from soprano Elodie Fonnard in the title role.” - The Scotsman, Edinburgh
“The clear-voiced soprano Élodie Fonnard (…) demonstrated admirable facility with the style. Ms. Fonnard sang poignantly in her expressive rendition of the anguished “Ah, Rinaldo” from Lully's opera Armide. ” - NY Times
CDs/DVDs
Les Plaisirs du Louvre, Airs for la Chambre de Louis XIII
Ensemble Correspondances & Sébastien Daucé
2020, Harmonia Mundi
Before Versailles, the epicenter of power in the Kingdom of France was the Louvre, a veritable theater of ceremonies where the music had to shine with its magnificence. During the reign of Louis XIII, the court air and ballet mobilized the elite of composers such as Moulinié, Guédron and Chancy. The most famous of them, Boesset, will evolve the polyphonic air inherited from the Renaissance towards a more intimate conception: far from the splendours to come in the shadow of the Sun King, an ocean of delicately chiseled miniatures is offered today to our ears.
PHOTOBOOK
CONTACT
Artistic Agency Florence Brunel
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