Géraldine Chauvet
About
Géraldine Chauvet is a French mezzo-soprano. She studied the flute and graduated in musicology at the University of Tours (France). Then she studied singing with two of the greatest mezzo-sopranos of our century: Grace Bumbry and Brigitte Fassbaender. With them, she worked with the French, the Italian and the German repertoire.
She became internationally famous in 2009 when she sang the title role of Carmen in the Arena di Verona, under Plácido Domingo’s baton, a role she performed again at the Opera of Bordeaux, at the Sanxay Festival, in Tokyo and at the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli in 2011.
In 2012 she made her American debut, first at the Lincoln Center in the role of Adriano in Wagner’s Rienzi and then at the Metropolitan Opera in the role of Sesto in Mozart's The Clemency of Titus. Those two performances were highly praised by the critics and allowed her to start an international carrier.