Éléonore Pancrazi © Titouan Massé
Éléonore Pancrazi
Révélation Lyrique at the Victoires de la Musique Classique 2019, Révélation Lyrique de l’Adami 2018, graduate of the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, former member of the Opéra Studio de Lyon and the Academies of the Opéra Comique de Paris and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Corsican mezzo-soprano Eléonore Pancrazi was a finalist in the Voix Nouvelles Competition and the Glyndebourne Opera Cup in 2018, after winning numerous prizes (Cesti Competition in Innsburck, Marmande, Béziers, Nîmes, Arles, UPMCF).
On stage, she has performed the roles of Concepcion (L’Heure espagnole, Ravel) and Varvara (Katia Kabanova, Janacek) at the Opéra de Nancy, the Mother, the Chinese Cup and the Dragonfly (L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, Ravel) at the Opéra de Lyon, Le Prince (Cendrillon, Massenet) at the Glyndebourne Festival, Dinah (Trouble in Tahiti, Bernstein) at Théâtre de l’Athénée and Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne, Orsini (Lucrezia Borgia, Donizetti) at Capitole de Toulouse and Tchaîkovsky Hall in Moscow, Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro, Mozart) at Festival de St Céré, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, at the Capitole de Toulouse, Orphée (Orphée et Eurydice, Gluck) at the Opéra de Clermont-Ferrand, Rosina (Il Barbiere di Seviglia, Rossini) and Ruggiero (Alcina, Handel) at the Klagenfurt Stadttheater, Elisa (Tolomeo, Handel) at the Handel Festspiel in Karlsruhe, Irene (Tamerlano, Handel) at the Tchaîkovsky Hall in Moscow, Metella (La Vie Parisienne, Offenbach) at Opéra de Tours, Opéra Royal de Wallonie and Opéra de Montpellier, Siebel (Faust, Gounod) at Opéra de Limoges, Mercedes (Carmen, Bizet) at Chorégies d’Orange, Urbain (Les Huguenots, Meyerbeer) at Opéra de Marseille.
Her discography includes several recordings with the Palazzetto Bru Zane (Hahn’s O Mon Bel Inconnu, Saint-Saens’ Mélodies Persanes), and with the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles (Boismortier’s Les Voyages de l’Amour, Lully’s Atys). She also collaborates with the ensemble Les Ombres, with whom she records Destouches’ Semiramis in the title role, with Musica Nigella on an album dedicated to Ernest Chausson (Chausson le Littéraire), and with Les Apaches, with whom she records Manga Café, a creation by Pascal Zavaro. In 2024, she released her first solo album, “A Voce di a Terra”, on the Oktav Records label.
Eléonore Pancrazi is fortunate to collaborate with internationally renowned conductors such as Jordi Savall, Mark Minkowski, Michele Spotti, Christophe Rousset, Duncan Ward, Mark Minkowski, Jeremie Rohrer, Giacomo Sagripanti, Attilio Cremonesi, Federico Maria Sardelli, Nicholas Carter, Jose Miguel Perez Sierra, Corinna Niemeyer, Hervé Niquet…
During the 2023/24 season, she took part in several tours: in Cosi Fan Tutte with the Opéra Eclaté company (Dorabella), in Lully’s Atys with the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles and Alexis Kossenko’s ensemble Les Ambassadeurs (Melpomène, Mélisse), in Monteverdi’s Vespers with the Ensemble I Gemelli. She also tackled the role of Zerlina (Don Giovanni, Mozart) at the Opéra Royal de Versailles, before returning to the role of Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro, Mozart) at the Opéra de Marseille.
Her plans for 2025 take her back to the Opéra de Versailles, where she will be Carmen under the direction of Hervé Niquet and staged by Romain Gilbert, Calypso in Porpora’s Polifermo, the Marquise de Berkenfield in La Fille du Régiment, then to the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, where she will be Zulma in L’Italienne à Alger and Annina in Le Chevalier à la Rose. Finally, she takes on her first Verdian role as Preziosilla in La Forza del Destino, in a co-production between Opéra de Montpellier and Opéra de Toulon.
Eléonore has also been resident artist at the Cordes sur Ciel Festival since 2022.