Cécile Madelin, mezzo-soprano

Franco-German mezzo-soprano Cécile Madelin cultivates a repertoire ranging from early music to twentieth-century works. An Artist in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel and a member of the 6th generation of Opera Fuoco, she regularly performs on international stages. 

In recent seasons, she has appeared as Concepcion in Ravel’s L’Heure espagnole and as “Her” in Anatomy of Love (Bernstein’s Arias and Barcarolles and Trouble in Tahiti) at the Opéra de Massy and the Philharmonie de Paris. At the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, whose Academy she joined, she performed the roles of the Child, then the Squirrel and the Cat in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges as part of the work’s centenary celebrations. Her stage career has also led her to the Opéra de Montpellier as Mathilde (Poil de Carotte), to the Burghof Lörrach in Dido and Aeneas (Dido), to the Théâtre de l’Athénée and the Opéra de Clermont-Ferrand in Pelléas et Mélisande (Yniold), as well as to a French tour of Le Nozze di Figaro (Cherubino). 

Graduating with highest honours from the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris in 2020, she furthered her training at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin with Christine Schäfer. A laureate of the Fonds Tutti 2024, Cécile Madelin has also received distinctions at the Gordes melody competition and the Opéra d’Avignon’s Young Singers Competition. A versatile musician, she initially trained as a viola da gamba player before devoting herself to opera singing. 

Since September 2024, Cécile Madelin has been an Artist in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, under the direction of Sophie Koch and Stéphane Degout.