Sabine Devieilhe
Acting
Biography
Sabine Devieilhe is a French operatic coloratura soprano. After cello and musicology studies, Sabine Devieilhe followed the teachings of Jocelyne Chamonin, Martine Surais, Pierre Mervant, Malcolm Walker or Kenneth Weiss, Anne Le Bozec, Susan Manoff, Olivier Reboul and Elène Golgevit. She received the First Price unanimously with the congratulations of the jury of the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in 2011. Parallel to her studies she starts a close collaboration with ensembles like Pygmalion (cond. Raphaël Pichon) and Les Cris de Paris (cond. Geoffroy Jourdain) and performs a large repertory from ancient music to contemporary music, while she approachs the baroque repertory from Bach to Rameau with Jean-Claude Malgoire and Alexis Kossenko and while the Orchestre National d’Ile de France (L’enfant et les sortilèges, cond. David Levi) and the Orchestre de Paris give her access to other stages. She also performs in concert with Les Arts Florissants, Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre, Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel… As from 2011-12 her career took off at great speed : she made her first steps in the Bel Canto with Amina/La Sonnambula under Jean-Claude Malgoire who also offered her La Folie/Platée; the Aix-en-Provence Festival inviteds her for Serpetta/La finta giardiniera (staged by Vincent Boussard, July 2012) ; the Montpellier Opera offered her the title-part of LAKME ; she is awarded Opera Singer Discovery of the year at the 20th French Victoires de la Musique in 2013 ; the Lyon National Opera gave her the opportunity to perform her first Queen of the Night/Magic Flute and she signed an exclusivity contract with Erato/Warner Classics ! Since then she performed Constance/Dialogues des carmélites at the Lyon National Opera (staged by Christophe Honoré), in a last minute replacement at Paris Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (cond : Jérémie Rohrer, staged by Olivier Py) and at the Amsterdam Opera , LAKME at Paris Opera Comique, Toulon & Avignon ; Queen of the Night/Die Zauberflöte at Paris National Opera ; Euridyce/Orphée et Euridyce at La Monnaie Royal Theatre in Brussels (staged Romeo Castelucci) ; Adèle/Die Fledermaus at Paris Opera Comique ; Mélisande/Pelleas et Melisandre (cond. Jean-Claude Malgoire) ; Nanetta/Falstaff at Marseille Opera ; Fire, Princess and Nightingale / L’enfant et les sortilèges at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival & in a concert version under Esa-Pekka Salonen with the Orchestre de Paris at La Philharmonie de Paris, The Philharmonia at the Royal Festival Hall in London or in Stockholm with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra ; Ismène/Mitridate (Le Concert d’Astrée/Emmanuelle Haïm) & Amina/La Sonnambula in a concert version at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, in the series Les Grandes Voix.
Known For
A seventeen year old travels from London to the Austrian Alps to attend the legendary Mozart boarding school. There, he discovers a centuries-old forgotten passageway into the fantastic world of Mozart's "The Magic Flute".
The Magic Flute
Prince Tamino promises the Queen of the Night that he will rescue her daughter Pamina from the enchanter Sarastro. He begins his quest, accompanied by the bird-catcher Papageno – but all is not as it seems… Tamino and Papageno discover Sarastro is a wise and kind leader. They undergo three ordeals. By the end they are united with their true loves: Tamino with Pamina, and Papageno with his Papagena.
Royal Opera House: The Magic Flute
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Idomeneo, König von Kreta - Mozart bei den Opernfestspielen Aix-en-Provence
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Le Concert de la Paix
Die Zauberflöte is one of Mozart’s most famous works and one of the most beloved of the entire operatic repertoire. Generations of spectators have been fascinated by the melodies and adventures of Papageno, the Queen of the Night, Tamino, and Pamina, the ordeals faced by the young lovers, and the work’s inexhaustible allegorical depth. The director Romeo Castellucci has deliberately stepped back from the narrative dimension of the opera in order to explore its raw emotion and its philosophical heart. For his part, the conductor Antonello Manacorda brings Mozart’s immortal music to life with the help of an outstanding cast that includes Sabine Devieilhe, one of today’s finest interpreters of the Queen of the Night.
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
Composed in 1707 in Rome, Handel's Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno is an oratorio in two parts with a libretto written by Cardinal Benedetto Pamphili. Staged by Krzysztof Warlikowski and conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm, this sublime performance was presented at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2016.
Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno
The Magic Flute by Mozart at La Monnaie.
The Magic Flute
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Lakmé
In Wajdi Mouawad's "brilliantly involving" new Paris Opera production of Debussy's only opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, French soprano Sabine Devieilhe is "as near to perfection as one might wish for: a voice of exquisite beauty and sung as if the role [of Mélisande] had been written especially for her" (Opera Today) and Huw Montague Rendall, as Pelléas, projects a "faultless French phrasing, endowing [Pelléas] with the perfect blend of freshness and candor" (Bachtrack). Based on the classic symbolist play by Maurice Maeterlinck that the composer found to contain "far more humanity" than realism, Pelléas et Mélisande sets a tragic love triangle against some of Debussy's most soaringly dramatic music, all its Wagnerian flourishes brought out by Antonello Manacorda and the Paris Opera Orchestra.
Pelléas et Mélisande
The Pygmalion Ensemble, led by conductor and countertenor Raphaël Pichon, is renowned for its refined sound on period instruments. Together with vocal stars Sabine Devieilhe, Lea Desandre, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Julian Prégardien, and Daniel Behle, the ensemble delves into rarely performed works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Zaïde, or The Path of Light @ Salzburg Festival 2025
“To be, or not to be..." You probably know the question, but perhaps not Cyril Teste's answer! A stage director famed for his fascinating fusion of theater and film, he stages the opera Hamlet for the first time in this production starring a brilliant group of soloists led by Stéphane Degout, Sabine Devieilhe, Laurent Alvaro, and Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo.
Hamlet : Opéra-Comique
A staging of Richard Strauss' opera "Ariadne auf Naxos" by Katie Mitchell. Recorded at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence.
Ariane à Naxos
Clément Cogitore adapts a short ballet excerpt from Jean-Philippe Rameau's Les Indes galantes, with the help of a group of Krump dancers and three choreographers on the 3rd Stage of the Paris Opera: Bintou Dembele, Igor Caruge, and Brahim Rachiki. Krump is a dance style that originated in the ghettos of Los Angeles in the 1990s. It emerged as a result of the riots and brutal police repression that followed the beating of Rodney King.
Les Indes galantes
The story concerns a pair of lovers, Acante and Céphise, who suffer at the hands of a wicked genie Oroès. They are saved by the good fairy Zirphile, who uses her magic powers, including the gift of telepathy (the sympathie of the title), to defeat Oroès.
Acante et Céphise, ou La Sympathie - Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
A Mozart opera at La Scala in Milan.
The Abduction from the Seraglio
Simon-Pierre Bestion celebrates the musical and cultural heritage of Paris' Notre-Dame with the La Tempête ensemble and a host of guests like Sabine Devieilhe and Olivier Latry, among others.
Concert for Notre-Dame La Tempête | Sabine Devieilhe | Olivier Latry
Raphaël Pichon and the Pygmalion Ensemble in concert in Arnstadt's Oberkirche, Johann Sebastian Bach's ancestral church.
In Search of Bach I. Welt, Gute Nacht
Raphaël Pichon, Pygmalion and Sabine Devieilhe celebrate Bach and love in the very church where the composer married his first wife, Maria Barbara. Program : J. S. Bach - Aria 1 de la cantate « Weichet nur betrübte Schatten » BWV 202
In Search of Bach II. Wedding Cantata
A musical and visual account of the life and exceptional and immortal work of the French composer Maurice Ravel (1875-1937).
Ravel in a Thousand Sparkles
For his first appearance in the pit in Paris with his Artaserse ensemble, Philippe Jaroussky has chosen a masterpiece that he knows well, having sung the role of Sesto on numerous occasions, notably in the highly acclaimed Salzburg production alongside Cecilia Bartoli. As for the staging, we will welcome for the first time on Avenue Montaigne a Venetian who is used to the greatest European stages and who has undertaken his first Handel, Alcina, in the summer of 2019 in Salzburg with Ruggiero... Philippe Jaroussky. Everyone agrees on his ability to imagine delicate and highly effective dramaturgical worlds (his Barber of Seville for the Paris Opera is an irresistible visual translation of Rossini's frenzied score). His debut in opera seria with Alcina also showed his intelligence in giving coherence and emotion to the demanding arias da capo. On stage, a team familiar with the Théàtre des Champs-Elysées and this repertoire, led by a very fine trio of French women.