Ambroisine Bré

After completing advanced vocal studies at the CRR in Paris and then at the CNSMD (in Yves Sotin’s class) in 2013, Ambroisine Bré won several opera competitions and awards in 2017 (four prizes at the “Mozart de l’Opéra” at the TCE, the Grand Prix for Vocal-Piano Duo at the Nadia & Lili Boulanger International Competition with pianist Qiaochu Li; she was also named Adami’s Classical Revelation and a laureate of the Royaumont Foundation). In 2019, Ambroisine Bré was nominated in the “Révélations” category at the Victoires de la Musique Classique.

Her career took off under the baton of Christophe Rousset, Marc Minkowski, Laurence Equilbey, Hervé Niquet, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Vincent Dumestre, Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Thomas Hengelbrock…

Ambroisine Bré has already performed on several major European stages, including the Vienna State Opera, Theater an der Wien, Prague National Theater, Philharmonie du Luxembourg, Berlin State Opera, Lille Opera, Bordeaux Opera, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Royal Opera of Versailles, Opéra National du Rhin, La Monnaie in Brussels, the Radio France Festival, the Berlioz Festival, the Deauville Festival, the Chaise-Dieu Festival, the Beaune Festival, and the Menton Festival, as well as at the Opéra-Comique, the Limoges Opera, the Saint-Étienne Opera, La Scala in Milan, and the Lausanne Opera… in numerous roles such as Lazuli/L’Étoile by Chabrier; Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Sesto in La Clemenza di Tito, Dorabella in Così fan tutte; Flora in La Traviata; Mercedes in Carmen; the Mother, the Dragonfly, and the Chinese Cup in L’Enfant et les Sortilèges; Urbain in Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots, Mallika in Lakmé, Dorothée in Cendrillon, Virtu and Ottavia in The Coronation of Poppea, the title role in Andromaque, Néris in Cherubini’s Médée, Prince Charming in Cendrillon, etc.

Ambroisine Bré particularly enjoys performing in recitals alongside Bertrand Chamayou, Ismaël Margain, Johan Farjot, David Bismuth, Mathilde Calderini, the Hanson Quartet, the Hermès Quartet, Geneviève Laurenceau…

In concert, Ambroisine Bré has performed with Les Talens Lyriques (Wigmore Hall, London), Le Concert de la Loge, the Ensemble Jupiter, Le Poème Harmonique, and others. In June 2024, she returns to the Opéra-Comique for the title role in Lully’s Armide (conducted by Christophe Rousset), followed by the role of Ruggiero in Alcina (Les Epopées, Beaune Festival). In 2024–25, she will appear notably in a Jommelli program conducted by Ian Page (Wigmore Hall), as Mercédès in Carmen (conducted by Hervé Niquet) and as Aréthuse-La Paix/Proserpine (conducted by Christophe Rousset) at the Royal Opera of Versailles, among other engagements. Among her recordings: Mozart’s Great Mass in C (Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski, Pentaton).

In early 2022, Ambroisine Bré released her first solo album of art songs and opera arias, featuring the new generation of French artists (Mathilde Calderini, Ismaël Margain, Julien Dran, Anaïs Gaudemard, and the Hanson Quartet) and will record Climène/Egisto (Le Poème Harmonique/Vincent Dumestre) and Galathée/Acis et Galathée by Lully (Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset).