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The French mezzo-soprano, Victoire Bunel, began her musical studies aged eight, playing the piano. She sang with the Maîtrise de Radio France (Director: Toni Ramon), receiving a first-class musical and vocal education accordingly. She then graduated from the Département Supérieur pour Jeunes Chanteurs in 2013 (Director: Laurence Equilbey); and studied singing at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (CNSMDP), where she was a pupil of Valérie Guillorit since 2013, graduating in June 2018 (Master's degree with honors unanimously with the congratulations of the jury). She also graduated from the Sorbonne in 2009 with a degree in musicology. She took the special prize at the Toulouse International Singing Competition and has attended master-classes given by Anne Sofie von Otter, Julius Drake, Dietrich Henschel, Susan Manoff and others.
Recognized for its great musicality and the richness of its timbre, Victoire Bunel is interested in a wide range of repertoire. She has performed in recital with orchestra, but also with piano with Sarah Ristorcelli (duo award at the International Competition of French Melody). Passionate about acting, she is also devoted to opera. She made her operatic debut in 2012 as Valetto in L'incoronazione di Poppea. She has since performed in a large number of opera productions. She was Miss Page in Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande by Debussy. More recently, she could be heard as Jenny in Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera in London, Speranza in Monteverdi's Orfeo at the Beaune Festival (July 2017), Théone in Lully's Phaeton in Russia and at the Opéra Royal de Versailles with Le Poème Harmonique (May-June 2018), Maria in Piazzolla's Maria de Buenos Aires at the Venice Biennale, Paula in the creation of Thomas Nguyen's Alice's Mirror at the Opéra de Reims, or Amando in Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre at the Philharmonie de Paris.
Coming soon: Victoire Bunel will be Siegrune in Wagner's Die Walküre at the Auditorium de Bordeaux (May 2019); she will sing excerpts from Berlioz' Nuits d'été at the Halle aux Grains de Toulouse in a series of tribute concerts to Nijinski and will then be Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at the Stift International Music Festival (the Netherlands). You will also be able to hear it on France Musique on Clément Rochefort's broadcast, Générations France Musique Live, on April 13, 2019 with her pianist Sarah Ristorcelli.
Victoire Bunel is supported by the Fondation Meyer, Fondation Safran and Fondation Accenture. She currently lives in Paris, France. |
