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: the Vienna State Opera, Theater an der Wien, Prague National Theater, Philharmonie du Luxembourg, Berlin State Opera, La Monnaie in Brussels, La Scala in Milan, the Lausanne Opera, as well as on most of the major French stages (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Royal Opera of Versailles, Opéra National du Rhin, Opéra Comique… and at numerous festivals), in a wide range of roles such as Lazuli/L’Étoile by Chabrier; Cherubino/Le Nozze di Figaro, Zerlina/Don Giovanni, Sesto/La Clemenza di Tito, Dorabella/Così fan tutte; Flora/La Traviata; Mercédès 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 Le Couronnement de Poppée, the title role in Andromaque, Néris in Cherubini’s Médée, Prince Charming in Cinderella, the title role in Lully’s Armide, Mercédès in Carmen (Royal Opera of Versailles, conducted by Hervé Niquet; Hong Kong Arts Festival; Ho Guom Opera in Hanoi), Annio in La Clemenza di Tito, the title role in Carmen (Hong Kong Opera), etc.

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

In concert, Ambroisine Bré performs regularly with Les Talens Lyriques (Wigmore Hall in London, North American tour, Mozartfest in Würzburg, etc.) as well as with Le Concert de la Loge, the Ensemble Jupiter, and Le Poème Harmonique (Egisto), Les Epopées (Ruggiero/Alcina), in a program dedicated to Jommelli (Ian Page, Wigmore Hall), Isolier/Le Comte Ory (Les Grandes Voix/Théâtre des Champs-Elysées), with Le Banquet Céleste, the Ensemble Correspondances, Il Caravaggio, etc.

Ambroisine Bré has been invited to the Berlioz Festival in La Côte Saint-André for La Damnation de Faust with the Appassionato ensemble, and in 2026–27 to the Ravel Festival in Saint-Jean-de-Luz for L’Heure Espagnole, to the Rennes Opera and Angers-Nantes Opera for Dorabella in Così fan tutte, and will reunite with Les Talens Lyriques for Les Indes Galantes at the Dijon Opera, as well as with Victor Julien-Laferrière’s Orchestre Consuelo for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, among others.

Among her recordings: Mozart’s Great Mass in C (Les Musiciens du Louvre, Pentaton). In early 2022, Ambroisine Bré released her first solo album, Psyché—Mélodies et Airs d’opéras, featuring the new generation of French artists (Mathilde Calderini, Ismaël Margain, Julien Dran, Anaïs Gaudemard, and the Hanson Quartet) and recorded the roles of Climène/Egisto (Le Poème Harmonique) and Galathée in Lully’s Acis et Galathée (Les Talens Lyriques).