After graduating from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, the young mezzo-soprano made her debut at the Opéra Bastille in Michael Haneke’s 2013 version of Don Giovanni (Zerlina) under the direction of Philippe Jordan. Ever since she has been invited to sing in many of the most renowned opera houses in the world. Nominated “Révélation Lyrique” at the “Victoires de la Musique 2
011”, Gaëlle Arquez released her highly anticipated debut recording “Ardente Flamme” for Deutsche Grammophon in 2017. Gaëlle Arquez kicks off the 2020/21 season, debuting as Charlotte in Werther at Oper Frankfurt and she will be singing the same role later in the season at the Vienna State Opera. Gaëlle Arquez gives her house debut at Opera di Firenze as Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte. On the concert stage Gaëlle Arquez can be heard with Orchestre National de Lille, singing title role of La Belle Helene. Besides that, she is making role debut as Merope with Barockorchester Basel under the baton of Andrea Marcon. Highlights of the 2019/20 season include Muse/Nicklausse in Offenbach’s Les Contes de Hoffmann at the Vienna State Opera and the Opéra Bastille. In addition, Gaëlle Arquez made successful house debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro.
2018/19 season marked Medea in Händel’s Teseo at the Theater an der Wien, Juditha in Vivaldi’s Juditha triumphans at the Dutch National Opera, Carmen at Royal Opera House and Bavarian State Opera, and role debut as Iphigénie in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride at Théatre des Champs-Elysées. In 2019 Gaëlle Arquez also sang on the Bastille day concert in Paris – one of the most important French celebrations, broadcasted live on Radio and TV. Her role debut as Carmen has been made in Barrie Kosky’s critically acclaimed production in Frankfurt in 2016. With the same production Arquez made her house debut at Royal Opera House, where she returned already two times. The production of Kasper Holten was so successful that Arquez also has been invited to Bregenz next year and the televised broadcast of the performance was viewed by over 1.5 million people. As Carmen she has also made a house debut in Teatro Real in 2017. However, the repertoire of Arquez is very broad. In 2017/18 she also made her first appearance as Isolier in Le Comte Ory at Opéra-Comique in Paris and as Adalgisa in Norma at the Frankfurt Opera. In 2016/17 season Gaëlle Arquez made her debut at the Vienna State Opera under the direction of Marc Minkowski singing the title role in a new production of Gluck’s Armide. She also made her role debut in Pelléas et Mélisande and Serse for the Frankfurt Opera. In concert, Gaëlle Arquez sang the title role of La Cenerentola at the Beaune Festival and the Poème de l’Amour de la Mer de Chausson under the direction of Louis Langrée at Theatre des Champs-Élysées and the Concepción in L’Heure espagnole with the Bayerische Rundfunk. In 2019 she also made a role debut as Guilhen at D’Indy’s Fervaal, performed at Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier
Gaëlle Arquez’s other recent performances include Idomeneo under the direction of René Jacobs at the Theater an der Wien, a production which was also taken to the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York in 2016, Falstaff and L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Opéra de Paris, Teseo at the Frankfurt Opera, Così fan tutte at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Castor et Pollux at Komische Opera Berlin and Cendrillon at Opera de Lille.
