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French mezzo-soprano (born 1963)
Béatrice Uria-Monzony
Born (1963-12-28) December 28, 1963 (age 60)
Agen Lot-et-Garonne, France
OriginAgen
Genresmezzo-soprano
OccupationSinger
Years active1987-present
Websitewww.beatrice-uriamonzon.com
Musical artist

Béatrice Uria Monzon (born 28 December 1963 in Agen (Lot-et-Garonne)) is a French mezzo-soprano.

Biography

Daughter of the Spanish painter Antonio Uria-Monzon, Béatrice Uria Monzon studied at the secondary school Joseph Chaumié, at the Bernard Palissy d'Agen High School and at the Catholic High School St Jean de Lectoure (Gers) where she was introduced to singing in the choir of the high school led by Roland Fornerod. She then went to the University of Bordeaux. She entered the Conservatoire de Bordeaux, then joined the Centre national d'insertion professionnelle des artistes lyriques [fr] of Marseille, and the École d'art lyrique of the Paris Opera.

She began her career as a lyric singer in 1987, as a mezzo-soprano. In 1989, she was Chérubin in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro at the Opéra national de Lorraine.

She is known for her numerous performances of the title role of Bizet's Carmen which she interpreted at the Opéra Bastille in 1993 and 1994, then again in 1997, 1998, 1999, and on the most important stages of the world during the same period (1994: Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires; 1995: Opéra Royal de Wallonie; 1996: Teatro Massimo in Palerme, Teatro Regio; 1997: Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse; 1998: Chorégies d'Orange, Vienna State Opera, Metropolitan Opera of New York).

She has also performed the French and Italian repertoires: Massenet: Charlotte in Werther, Hérodiade (title role), Dulcinée in Don Quichotte, Chimène in Le Cid (alongside Roberto Alagna), Anita in La Navarraise; Berlioz: Cassandre and Didon in Les Troyens, Béatrice in Béatrice et Bénédict, Marguerite in la Damnation de Faust; Ambroise Thomas: Gertrude in Hamlet, Mignon (title role); Poulenc: Mère Marie in Dialogues of the Carmelites; Saint-Saëns: Dalila in Samson and Delilah, Offenbach: Giulietta in The Tales of Hoffmann; Italian repertoire: Bellini: Adalgisa in Norma, Donizetti: Sarah in Roberto Devereux, Eleonore in La Favorite (French and Italian versions); Verdi: Fenena in Nabucco, Amnéris in Aida, Eboli in Don Carlos (French and Italian versions); Mascagni: Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana and also Wagner as Vénus in Tannhauser as well as Judith in Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, in the Hungarian language.

In 2012, she performed in Puccini's Tosca.

Discography

Opera integrals
Other vocal works

Videography

References

  1. Uria Monzon biography
  2. Fornerod Choral on Gramophone UK
  3. Béatrice Uria Monzon: le feu et la grâce, Paris Match

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