Victoire Bunel, Jean-Christophe Lanièce & Romain Louveau
Biography Victoire Bunel, Jean-Christophe Lanièce & Romain Louveau
Victoire Bunel
Recognized for her great musicality and richness of timbre Victoire Bunel is one of the rising stars of the French opera scene.
Victoire Bunel began singing at the Conservatoire in the 9th district in Paris before joining the Maîtrise de Radio France where she received an excellent education under the direction of Toni Ramon. She continued her studies at the Département supérieur pour Jeunes Chanteurs with Mélanie Jackson before joining the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (CNSMDP) in Valérie Guillorit’s class. After one year on an Erasmus programme at the Royal Academy of Music in London, she graduated with a Master’s, with distinction, unanimously awarded by the jury, from the CNSMDP in June 2018.
Victoire Bunel has marked the last seasons with her debut as Jenny in Die Dreigroschenoper by Kurt Weill at the Shoreditch Town Hall in London, as Théone in Phaéton by Lully with Le Poème Harmonique in Perm (Russia) and at the Opéra Royal in Versailles (c. V. Dumestre, s. B. Lazar), as Maria in Maria de Buenos Aires by Piazzolla at the Venice Biennale, as Paula in Alice’s Mirror by T. Nguyen at the Opera in Reims, as Amando in Le Grand Macabre by Ligeti at Paris Philharmonie with the Ensemble Intercontemporain but also as Siegrune in Die Walküre by Wagner at Bordeaux’s Opera, as Dido in Dido and Aeneas by Purcell at Stift International Festival in the Netherlands. She has also been heard several times at Paris Philharmonie (with Daniel Harding, Matthias Pintscher or Jean-François Hesser), at La Halle aux Grains in Toulouse and at the Théâtre du Capitole.
The young mezzo-soprano has a special affection for the French melodie and lieder repertoire. She performs frequently in recital with Anne Le Bozec, Gaspard Dehaene and Sarah Ristorcelli. She is one of the winners of the Orsay-Royaumont Academy, specialised in this repertoire, with Gaspard Dehaene with whom she will do an international tour. We have heard Victoire Bunel at the Petit Palais in Paris, at the Compiègne Theatre, at the Wigmore Hall in London or several times on the French Radio (France Musique). Soon, she will give several recitals at the Théâtre du Capitole, at the Opera in Lille, at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, in Royaumont, at the Wigmore Hall and also in Montreal and Shanghai. She is a regular guest in several international festivals as Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival (Finland), Stift International Music Festival (Netherlands) or at the Biennale in Venice (Italy).
Victoire Bunel news includes the role of Sirene in Coronis by Duron with Le Poème Harmonique for 15 shows (Opéra de Lille, Limoges, Caen, Rouen, Amiens and at the Opéra-Comique), the role of Jean in Manon’s Portrait by Massenet in Limoges and also Karolka in Jenufa by Janacek at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse where she will give a recital for the Midi du Capitole serie. She will take part of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence’s Academy 2020. Next season, among others, she will sing Mélisande at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse.
Her first CD, “Prima Verba”, recorded with Sarah Ristorcelli and with the participation of the Quator Elmire, is dedicated to French Melodie (Séverac, Fauré and Chausson). It is available on Deezer, Spotify, Qobuz …. And in music shops. We can also find Victoire Bunel on the recording CD and DVD of Phaéton by Lully recorded at the Opéra Royal in Versailles with Le Poème Harmonique.
Victoire Bunel receives generous support from the Meyer Foundation, the Safran Foundation for Music, the Tokyo Foundation and the Accenture Foundation. She is also laureate of the “Orsay-Royaumont Academy” with Gaspard Dehaene.
Jean-Christophe Laniece
learned music from an early age in the Maitrise de Caen. He began his higher studies at the Maitrise de Notre-Dame de Paris and in 2013 he joined, 1st Named, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris in the class of Yves Sotin.
Several roles made him enter the scene with enthusiasm: Herr Fluth in Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor (Nicolai), Eneas in Dido and Eneas (Purcell), Comte Robinson in Il Matrimonio Segreto (Cimarosa), Belcore in the Elisir of Amore (Donizetti).
He was the Young Prospero in Purcell's Miranda (Opéra Comique, directed by Raphaël Pichon, and Katie Mitchell), Marcello, in Bohème, notre jeunesse, after Puccini (Opéra Comique, directed by Alexandra Cravero and Pauline Bureau).
He performed in concert with the Orchester de Cannes in Carmina Burana directed by Benjamin Levy and in the Te Deum Charpentier directed by Hervé Niquet.
2018-2019 was marked by the performance of his first Pelléas at the Opéra Comique in a concert version with Stéphane Degout. He played Nekrotzar in Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre at the Philharmonie de Paris with the Ensemble Intercontemporain directed by Matthias Pintscher. He was Gaston in Les P'tites Michu de Messager with Les Brigands at the Théâtre de Caen and at the Opéra de Reims and Le Perruquier in Ariadne auf Naxos by Strauss at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. In the programming of Les Grandes Voix at the TCE, he is Brétigny in Manon de Massenet alongside Juan-Diego Florez.
The same year, he was a laureate of the Orsay-Royaumont Academy with pianist Romain Louveau and gave several recitals with Susan Manoff, Anne Le Bozec and Ludmila Berlinskaia. He finished the season alongside Sabine Devieilhe and Ensemble Melismes for Mozart's High Mass in C at the Rocamadour Festival.
In 2019-2020, you will see him during a European tour of recitals with Romain Louveau. He will also be a Priest and an Armoured Man in The Magic Flute by Mozart at the Opéra d’Avignon and at the Royal Opera of Versailles. At the Capitole de Toulouse, he will perform Momus in Platée by Rameau and will be Don Quichotte in an adaptation of Massenet's Don Quichotte at the Opéra Comique.
Romain Louveau
is a French collaborative pianist born in 1989 who devotes himself to chamber music and the vocal repertoire. He is presently the musical director of the French opera company Miroirs Étendus (in residence with the Opéra de Rouen, the Opéra de Lille and the Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne), and is the cofounder of La Brèche Festival.
He studied at the Conservatoire de Lyon with Hervé Billaut, and in the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris with Jeff Cohen. He is one of the 2018 Orsay-Royaumont Academy laureates, which led this year to the release of an album with baritone Jean-Christophe Lanièce on the french label B-records. Together with Fiona Monbet they won the 2016 Chamber music award at the ISA (International Summer Academy) of the MDW in Vienna.
He has enjoyed recital partnerships with the most prominent singers of his generation, the soprano Elsa Dreisig and the mezzo-soprano Eva Zaïcik (they have recently recorded a disc of Mahler and Moussorgski). Highlights of future seasons include a tour with Jean-Christophe Lanièce and their debut at the Wigmore Hall (London) and at the Victoria de los Angeles lied festival (Barcelona). He also has appeared at the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Auditorium of the Musée d’Orsay, the Opéra de Lille, the Opéra de Rouen, at festivals such as Les Nuits Romantiques, Festival de musique de chambre du Larzac, and has been a regular guest of France Musique. His frequent partners are Adèle Charvet, the pianists Susan Manoff, Jean-Sébastien Dureau, the cellists Valérie Aimard, Marie Bitloch, Michèle Pierre, the violinist Sarah Kapustin, Ann-Estelle Medouze, the clarinetist Bertrand Laude, the flutist Mathilde Caldérini.
He is a graduate in Philosophy from Université Paris VIII, and in musicology from the CNSMDP. His love for theatre have inspired Romain’s involvement with numerous companies and artists from an array of disciplines.
