Suzanne Jerosme

Biography

”... a voice extraordinary in its range of colours - musically and dramatically a performance of marvellous intensity” [Aachener Zeitung]

After studying at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, Suzanne was immediately hired by Theater Aachen and was a permanent member of the ensemble until the 23/24 season.

In 2016 Suzanne was a finalist in the International Singing Competition for Baroque Opera "Pietro Antonio Cesti" and in 2017 was invited by the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music for the title role in Reinhard Keiser's Octavia - "As Octavia, Suzanne shows great humanity... undeniable noblesse... crystalline and heartbreaking high notes... moments of pure joy." [baroquiades.com].

2016/17 is characterized by performances in L'incoronazione di Poppea (Amore/Valletto) with the Ensemble Matheus under the direction of Jean-Christophe Spinosi, in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi (Lauretta) at Theater Aachen as well as in Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem at the Ostbelgien Festspiele and in Aachen Cathedral under the direction of Kazem Abdullah.

She has performed regularly at Theater Aachen since 2016, including as Poppea (L'incoronazione di Poppea), Blanche de la Force (Dialogues des Carmélites) - "magnificent ... with a girlish, luminous, increasingly larger soprano" [omm. de], as Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Maria (West Side Story), Flora (The Turn of the Screw), Despina (Così fan tutte), Bellezza (Handel's Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno) - "Suzanne Jerosme succeeds in Handel's sometimes feared coloraturas with breathtaking perfection and incredible weightlessness". [Klenkes], in the title role of Manon, as Mimi (La Boheme), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Valencienne (Die Lustige Witwe), in the title role of La Calisto and as Helena in Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream.

In the 2019/20 season, Suzanne sang the role of Woglinde in Wagner's Hagen in Aachen. She was seen as the First Lady in the French version of Mozart's The Magic Flute under Hervé Niquet with appearances at the Opéra d'Avignon and the Opéra Royal de Versailles and made her debut at the Opéra National de Lorraine with the role of Morgana in Handel's Alcina under the direction of Serena Sinigaglia and musical direction of Leonardo García Alarcón.

At the beginning of the 2020/21 season, Suzanne made her debut at the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival in the role of Giuditta in Porpora's Carlo il Calvo, staged by Max Emanuel Cenčic and conducted by George Petrou. The production was staged at the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival in September 2021, later repeated as a concert at the Theater an der Wien, at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in San Lorenzo del Escorial, at the Konzerthaus Dortmund and at La Scala di Milano, which was celebrated by the audience with standing ovations and 20 minutes of applause. The production was released on CD in 2022.

Suzanne sang the title role in the recording of Cleofida, Reine d'Inde (Handel/Telemann) under the direction of Jörg Halubek and his ensemble Il Gusto Barocco. In Cologne she sang Ismene in Lindor and Ismene by Joseph Aloys, took part in a tour of Purcell's Odes with Damien Guillon and Le Banquet Céleste (Salle Gaveau in Paris, Nice, Rennes and Poitiers) and returned to the Theater an der Wien with the roles of Sestia in Cajo Fabricio by Hasse and Lucinda in Il Venceslao by Caldara.

As a concert soloist, she sang at the Auvers-sur-Oise Festival and the Annecy Classic Festival (Mozart's Coronation Mass and Vesperæ solennes de confessore with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Patrick Marco). She also sang the soprano part in Mahler's Resurrection Symphony, the Great Mass in C minor, and Exultate Jubilate by Mozart in Aachen. At the end of the 2018 season, she returned to the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music with a song recital - "Die Zeit steht still".

In the 2023/24 season, Suzanne will sing the roles of La Contessa di Folleville in Il viaggio a Reims, Philidel in King Arthur, and the title role of Mimi in La Boheme at Theater Aachen. At the Klangvokalmusikfestival Dortmund she will sing Sophie in Werther and a baroque concert under the direction of Ottavio Dantone before she continues as Agilea in Teseo for concerts at the Handel Festival in Halle and in Wroclaw. Finally, she will sing Baroque concerts with Jörg Halubek in Stuttgart and with Benjamin Bayl in Aachen as well as the title role in Traetta's opera Rex Salomon at the Innsbruck Early Music Festival under Christophe Rousset.

(2024_Please use this CV only.)

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