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Lea Desandre
Mezzo-soprano
© James Bort / onP
Biography
Lea Desandre trained as a singer in Venice under Sara Mingardo. In 2015, she joined William Christie’s Le Jardin des Voix, then the Académie of the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2016. She was named the Revelation of the Year at the Victoires de la Musique Classique in 2017 and “Female Singer of the Year” by Opus Klassik 2022. She is also a winner of the Prix de la Critique 2024.
Recent highlights include her performances as Rosina (The Barber of Seville), Dido (Dido and Aeneas), Urbain (Les Huguenots), Stéphano (Roméo et Juliette) and Timna (Samson). She sang the role of Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro) in seven different productions since her debut in 2021: at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Paris Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Zurich Opera House, Lausanne Opera, Ravenna Opera and the Salzburg Festival.
Since 2018, she has performed every year at the Salzburg Festival, in particular as Despina (Cosi fan Tutti), Annio (La Clemenza di Tito), Valletto/Amore (L’Incoronazione di Poppea), Venus (Orphée aux Enfers) or Abel (La Morte d’Abel). Last season, she appeared as Idamante (Idomeneo) at the Grand Théâtre de Genève and as Ariodante (title-role) on a European tour
The 2024/25 season sees her in Les Nuits d’Eté (Berlioz) with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, a new recital with Alexandre Kantorow and the Idylle programme with Thomas Dunford. At the Opera, she is also making her role debuts as Sapho / Iphise / Eglé (Les Fêtes d’Hébé) at Opera Comique and Poppea (Agrippina) at the Zurich Opera.
At the Paris Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro (Cherubino), 2022; Roméo et Juliette (Stephano), 2023; Medea (title-role), 2024
