Soloist

Camille Schnoor

The German-French soprano Camille Schnoor was born in Nice. She won the »Bayerischer Förderpreis für Darstellende Kunst« in 2020 and the international »Vokal Genial« competition in 2013. »Die Welt« nominated her for both »Best Singer« and »Best Newcomer« in 2016. In the 2023/2024 season, she made her debut at the Bayreuth Festival as Klingsor’s Zaubermädchen in the new production of »Parsifal«, sang Mimì (»La bohème«) in a new production at the Aachen Theatre, appeared as a soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9 with the Munich Symphony Orchestra at the Isarphilharmonie and the Liederhalle Stuttgart, returned to the Opéra de Nice, where she made her role debut as the Foreign Princess in »Rusalka«, and sang Ciò-Ciò-San (»Madama Butterfly«) at the Opéra de Vichy.

Highlights of recent seasons include her debut as Ariadne (»Ariadne auf Naxos«) in 2022 at the Opéra de Limoges and the Opéra National de Montpellier (cover). Shortly after her debut at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg in 2023 with Schumann’s »Balladen« under the direction of Laurence Equilbey, she stepped in at short notice as Ariadne for the revival premiere of »Ariadne auf Naxos« at the Hungarian State Opera Budapest. In 2021, she made her role debut as Marschallin (»Der Rosenkavalier«) in a concert version at the BFM in Geneva with the Orchestre Symphonique Ose! and sang Mimì at Oper Klosterneuburg and Hanna Glawari (»Die lustige Witwe«) at the Opéra de Nice. In 2019, she made her debut as Fiordiligi (»Così fan tutte«) at the Bergen Opera in Norway and as Hilda (»Sigurd von Reyer«) at the Opera national de Lorraine, in 2018 as Ciò-Ciò-San at the Opéra de Limoges and the Opéra de Rouen Normandie ‒ the production was broadcast several times on French television.

From 2016 to 2023, the soprano was a member of the ensemble at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, where she sang numerous leading roles in her repertoire, including Donna Elvira (»Don Giovanni«), Fiordiligi (»Così fan tutte«), Mimì, Tatjana (»Eugene Onegin«), Hanna Glawari, Antonia and Giulietta (»Les contes d’Hoffmann«). She has worked with conductors such as Pablo Heras-Casado, Frédéric Chaslin, Christian Arming, Laurence Equilbey, Daniel Kawka and Erik Nielson as well as with directors such as Stefano Poda, Joan Anton Rechi, Michel Fau and Josef E. Köpplinger. Her first solo album »Les Âmes Naturelles« was released in 2022 by the Klarthe label.

Camille Schnoor completed her music studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris (CNSM) in 2007 as a concert pianist before studying singing in Paris and Maastricht. She took her first steps as a singer on stage in 2012‒2013 as a prizewinner at the Aachen Theatre before joining the ensemble there in 2014‒2016, singing roles such as Luisa (»Luisa Miller«), the soprano solo in Verdi’s »Requiem«, Marie (»The Bartered Bride«), Agathe (»Der Freischütz«) and Maria (»West Side Story«).