Cécile Madelin, mezzo-soprano

Cécile Madelin, a Franco-German mezzo-soprano, was introduced to music at an early age with the viola da gamba. At the age of eight, she joined the Maîtrise de Paris, where she discovered a passion for singing and the stage. Graduating with the highest honours from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in 2020, she received guidance from Élène Golgevit, and later Christine Schäfer during her exchange at the Musikhochschule Hans Eisler in Berlin.

Awarded prizes at the Gordes melody competition and the Opéra d’Avignon’s young singers competition, she went on to play Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro (French tour) and Rosita in Offenbach’s A Husband at the Door (Compiègne, Brussels, Cologne). At the Opéra de Montpellier, she played the role of Mathilde in Poil de Carotte. Cécile also sang as Giulia in Rossini’s The Silken Ladder, co-produced by the Philharmonie de Paris and the CNSMDP, and as Paquette in Bernstein’s Candide with Opera Fuoco.

In the 2023-2024 season, Cécile revisited Cherubino at the Festival des Concerts au coucher de soleil, conducted by Cyril Diederich, and played Dido in Dido and Aeneas at the Burghof in Lörrach. She was a member of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo Academy, where she made her debut as the Child in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges. She also played Yniold in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, directed by Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser at the Théâtre de l’Athénée and the Opéra de Clermont-Ferrand. She became a prize-winner of the Tutti Fund in 2024.

Cécile will sing as the Squirrel and the Female Cat in L’Enfant et les sortilèges in March 2025. From September 2024, Cécile is Artist in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in the lass of Sophie Koch and Stéphane Degout, as well as a member of the 6th generation of Opera Fuoco.