Who is Julie Roset, lyrical revelation to the 32nd victories of classical music?

In November 2023, at the age of only 26 years old, Julie Roset had already awarded the first prize of Operalia, founded by Placido Domingo, in 1993. A consecration, for this Avignon color that we knew above all, until then, as a baroque specialist. The one who admitted to us a few weeks later to have faced a real panic attack before the final wanted to keep our head cool: “What I wanted above all was proving to the jury and myself that I was also comfortable At Handel that at Massenet, Delibes or Meyerbeer ”she told us.

Competitions? She sees them especially as “A huge hearing. More than winning a prize is the opportunity to be heard by many people in the middle ”she said at the time. While ensuring that Operalia will certainly be her last competition. “I had already won the Laffont competition you Metropolitan Opera . Each time, these are the roller coaster mountains! Even if, Operalia taking place this year in South Africa, we took advantage of all the moments off to decompress by going in the great outdoors. ”

Back from the CAP, the one who joined the famous artistic agency Harrison Parrott now felt more serene. “I will need less to run after people to remind them that my horizon is not limited to the baroque”she assured, her head already full of projects. It must be said that the young singer has come a long way since her very first solo, within the Choir A Piacere, in Avignon. “I must have been 10 years old. I was so paralyzed that my chief held my hand throughout my solo. ”

The baroque turn is taken

At 15, it was the release: after having surveyed the benches of the master’s degree in the Avignon Opera and studied the flute while waiting for the moult (an instrument that enabled her to consolidate her respiratory technique), she can integrate the lyric singing class of Valérie Marestin, at the Grand Avignon Conservatory. A year later, she created with two comrades the ensemble the masquerade, which occurs in the streets during the Off d’Avignon. The baroque turn is taken. She decides to follow the trace by following the baroque singing courses of Monique Zanetti in Aix-en-Provence. Then at the Haute École de Musique de Genève, where she meets Leonardo Garcia Alarcon.

“His whole and have become my second family”she concedes. This will not prevent him from creating, just before the covid, with Ana Vieira Leite and Camille Allerat, his own whole: the Néréide. “We do everything ourselves, it’s like a microcentriser”she concluded, when the whole had just published his first album at Ricerca..r. An enchanting tribute to the Concerto Delle DON, female vocal trio which worked for the chronicle at the end of the 16th^e century at the court of the house of Este.