Listen again to Marielou Jacquard in the Viardot / Tchaikovsky program during her appareance on Générations France Musique, a program by Clément Rochefort and Xavier Carrère, with Emmanuel Olivier at the piano.
A mirroring of Tchaikovsky's French romances and Pauline Viardot's Russian melodies.
RELEASE OF CIELS D'OR
IN FEBRUARY 2025
The Haydée trio's new recording Ciels d'or will be released in February 2025 by Voces8 Records. It will feature works by Lili Boulanger, Pauline Viardot, Edith Canat de Chizy and Joséphine Stephenson.
You can also listen the trio perform at the Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Musée d'Orsay and the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord.
MARIELOU JACQUARD
WOMEN COMPOSERS CONCERT AT THE PHILHARMONIE DE PARIS
Marielou Jacquard will be in concert on December 19th 2024 at the Philharmonie de Paris.
The Boîte à Pépites festival will propose a digital advent calendar, highlighting one of the twenty-five works of the program every day from December 1st to 25th inside a painting from the Musée d'Orsay.
An opportunity to discover these unknown works, most of which have never been performed, and to experience an immersive journey between music and painting.
« Marielou Jacquard embodies Costanza with a supple voice that highlights the character’s profound sensitivity. Her musicality and extremely well-done piani allow her to express Costanza’s deep suffering. »
Online Musik Magazin - Costanza/Riccardo Primo, HÄNDEL
BIOGRAPHY
Playing the acrobat between baroque music and contemporary creation, Marielou Jacquard cultivates her taste for eclecticism in the diversity of her repertoire.
She began her training as a singer at an early age at the Maîtrise de Radio France, then at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin where she studied with Martin Bruns and Christine Schäfer. She also studied with soprano Julia Varady, Wolfram Rieger for Lied and Peter Berne for Bel Canto.
Marielou discovered her passion for the stage as a teenager, performing the role of Flora in The Turn of the Screw by B. Britten at the Dijon Opera in 2002-2003. Then she played the Angel, alongside Claire Lefilliâtre and Lisandro Abadie in Ursule1.1 by Morgan Jourdain, stage directed by Benjamin Lazare and conducted by Geoffroy Jourdain at the Quimper theater.
In 2014, noticed for her musicality and vocal agility by conductor Wolfgang Katschner, she performed the role of Costanza in Händel's Riccardo Primo at the Händelfestpiele Halle and the Ludwigsburger Festspiele, in a production by the Lautten Compagney. It was the beginning of an affinity with baroque music that grew stronger over the years. She embodies the role of Nerona in Monteverdi's Incoronazione di Poppea with René Jacobs during a residency in Royaumont.
She recently played the role of Juno in Actéon by Charpentier in a production of Les Cris de Paris of Geoffroy Jourdain, directed by Benjamin Lazare. She regularly collaborates with the Poème Harmonique of Vincent Dumestre (Coronis by S. Duron at the Opéra Comique, Egisto by Cavalli at the Opéra Royal in Versailles, Nisi Dominus at the Sinfonia Perigord festival, Lamentations by Cavalieri), with the Ensemble Correspondances of Sébastien Daucé, as well as Raphaël Pichon's Pygmalion orchestra for 17th century Italian music (L'incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi at the Opéra National du Rhin), but also for romantic French repertoire (Lakmé by Delibes at the Comical opera).
Marielou is also very involved in contemporary creation. She is invited to perform at the Tischlerei of the Deutsche Oper Berlin as well as at the Werkstatt of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden for two world premieres - My corporate Identity by Thierry Tidrow and Abstract Pieces by Manos Tsangaris. She performed the eponymous role in the Lady MacBeth creation by free jazz guitarist and composer Marc Ducret at the Lille Opera. She is the dedicatee of several plays, notably Le Coeur Crucifié by Héloïse Werner, Les Chansons pour Pauline by Lise Borel, Ceux qui nous attendaient by Kaoli Ono..
In the past few years, she had the opportunity to perform at the Academy of the Aix en Provence Festival, at the Chapelle Royale in Versailles, at the Ambronay festival as well as at the Musica Sacra Festival (Quito, Ecuador). In Berlin we could hear her at the Tacheles, the Radial System and the Konzerthaus.
In previous seasons, she also played the young Cherubino in Mozart's Nozze di Figaro during a French tour of Opéra Eclaté compagny, the 3rd chambermaid in Zemlinsky's Le Nain at the Lille, Rennes and Caen opera houses, Myrtale in Thaïs by Massenet at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. She is the dragonfly and the owl in Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges with the ONB (Bordeaux) at the Ensemble Pygmalion's Pulsation Festival.
Her « very resonant voice, with a solid anchor, and the prosody of storyteller, souple and well articulated » (Olyrix, Charles Arden) leads her naturally to the art of recital. She participated in the inaugural promotion of the Académie de Lied et Mélodie Orsay-Royaumont and gave numerous recitals, in particular with the pianist Kunal Lahiry at the Musée d'Orsay, at the auditorium of the Petit Palais -Récital Jeunes Talents- and in the framework of the Concertini at the Monnaie in Bruxelles. She also recently gave La Fontaine's Fables set to music by Offenbach with the Orchestre de Picardie, conducted by Arme van Beck.
Marielou has just recorded La Belle Maguelone by Brahms for the B Records label with the baritone Stéphane Degout, the pianist Alain Planes and the narrator Roger Germser, live recording of their concert at the Athénée on March 2023, which closed a tour of recitals, notably at the Radio France Festival in Montpellier and at the Atelier Lyrique in Tourcoing.
She is also involved in highlighting the work of women composers by collaborating on several occasions with the Elles Creative collective (at the initiative of the Boite à Pépites and the Un temps pour Elles festival), as well as with the Femmes artistes, Femmes d'action Festival.
Passionate about acting, she played the roles of Sascha, Ivanov's lover, in Chekhov's play of the same name, then Hitler in Heiner Müller's Germania at the Berlin Academy of Arts.
The 23/24 season will start with the La Belle Maguelone album release concert at the Royaumont Festival. Furthermore, Marielou will take again the role of her "exquisite Despina" (opera forum) in the spicy production of Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte on tour in France with Opera Eclaté, alongside Eléonore Pancrazy, Jean Gabriel Saint Martin, Julie Goussot , Antoine Foulon and so many other young and talented artists. She will play the show "Sans Tambour" by Samuel Achache at the Madrid Autumn Festival and at the Garonne Theater in Toulouse. This season will also include a reprise of Coronis by S. Duron with the Poème Harmonique at the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo. Finally, she will give many concerts with the Trio Haydée (voice, flute(s) and harp), whose first album is in preparation.
NB: the Actéon recording, directed by Benjamin Lazare and Corentin Leconte, production of Les Cris de Paris, is still available on Arte Concert.
« The mezzo Marielou Jacquard does not hesitate to deploy her very anchored voice, with a broad base and a storyteller's prosody, flexible and articulate. »
Olyrix - French melodies recital at the Royaumont Abbey
SCHEDULE
SEASON 2024-25
September 21st 2024
Baroque heroines, composers in the time of Louis XIV
With Ensemble Théodora
Pieces by Antonia Bembo and Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre
Matrimony Day, Aître Saint-Maclou (Rouen)
September 26th, 27th, 29th & October 1st 2024
Cosi fan Tutte by Mozart
Role: Despina
Musical direction : Fayçal Karoui
Staging : Eric Perez
Pau Pays du Béarn Orchestra
Le Foirail (Pau)
October 5th 2024
Four vocal seasons Concert by Marcello
Oratorio Il Pianto e il riso delle quattro stagioni by Benedetto Marcello (Venise, 1731)
L'Assemblée Ensemble
Musical direction : Marie Van Rhijn
With : Camille Poul (soprano), Cyril Auvity (ténor), Thierry Cartier (baryton)
Abbatiale - Festival d'Ambronay
October 19th 2024
French Romances by Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovsky and russian melodies by Pauline Viardot
Radio Program Generation France Musique by Clément Rochefort and Xavier Carrère
With Emmanuel Olivier (piano)
November 7th 2024
Count Ory by Rossini (concert version)
Role : Alice
Orchestre de chambre de Paris
Direction : Patrick Lange
Chœur de Chambre de Rouen et Chœur Sorbonne Université
Direction Frédéric Pineau
With Sara Blanch, Cyril Dubois, Ambroisine Bré...
Champs-Elysées Theater (Paris)
November 16th 2024
Concert With Trio Haydée
Chants de Lumière program
Women composers of the 20th and 21st centuries
Melodies for voice, flute(s) and harp
Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing
December 19th 2024
Le jardin féérique concert with la Boîte à Pépites
Twenty-five works by twenty-five women composers performed by leading French instrumentalists and singers. An evening as a bet carried by Elles Women Composers and the Philharmonie de Paris.
With Agathe Peyrat, Pierre Cussac, Marie Laure Garnier, Fiona Mc Gown, le Trio Haydée, Pierre Fouchenneret, Theo Fouchenneret, Karine Deshayes, Héloïse Luzzati, Célia Oneto Bensaid
Philharmonie de Paris
December 19th 2024
Christmas concert with Trio Haydée
Works by Debussy, Schubert, Piaf, Britten...
Ménerbe church
Musicales du Lubéron festival
January 21st 2025
Concert with Trio Haydée
January 28th & 29th 2025
Cosi fan Tutte by Mozart
Role: Despina
Conductor: Gaspard Brécourt
Stage director: Eric Perez
Montansier Theater (Versailles)
March 18th 2025
Ciels d'or concert with Trio Haydée
Private concert
Siècle des femmes
April 6th 2025
Cantates by Bach
Mezzo solo
Arabesque Ensemble
Musical direction : Julien Laloux
Lausanne Cathedral
March & April 2025
Trio Haydée’s Ciels d’or tour in the United Kingdom
March 2 2nd- Edimbourg, Edinburgh society of musician
April 10th- Londres, Voces 8 Fondation (St Anne & St Agnes Church)
April 11th - Brighton, Music & Wine at St Luke's
April 16th - Caernafon festival
April 27th 2025
Ciels d'or concert with Trio Haydée
Présences Compositrices festival
La Celle abbey (Toulon)
May 19th 2025
Earth's songs
5th anniversary of Un Temps pour Elles festival
Pieces by Jeanne Leleu, Marguerite Canal, Rita Strohl, Louise Héritte-Viardot, Hedwige Chretien, Ethel Smyth, Liza Lehman...
Bouffes du Nord theater (Paris)
ARCHIVES
« We retain the perfect diction and the natural charisma of Marielou Jacquard, whose exquisite Despina plays as well on her sensuality as on her sense of burlesque for a lightness and vocally impeccable interpretation. »
Anne Rouhette - Forum Opéra
VIDEOS
Alle Videos
Alle Videos
Ercole Amante, Cavalli - Air de Vénus
Marielou Jacquard - Fly to the moon
Marielou Jacquard - Youkali
Marielou Jacquard - Actéon de Marc-Antoine Charpentier au Théâtre du Châtelet - Extraits
PICTURES
DISCOGRAPHY
« Marielou Jacquard stands out for her vibrant musicality and deploys a frank and natural voice. »
Olyrix - Belle Maguelone recital - March 2023
PRESS
La Belle Maguelone with Stéphane Degout, Alain Planès and Roger Germser
« Marielou Jacquard stands out for her vibrant musicality and deploys
Olyrix - José Pons - Athénée theater - march 2023
« The singing is fluid, charged with emotion, with languid passages in chest voice on low notes.
The treble is incisive and sparkles. The score also offers her the opportunity to embody two characters, Maguelone and Sulima, daughter of the Sultan of Egypt, which she accomplished brilliantly. »
Olyrix - Pierre Giangiobbe - Radio France Festival in Montpellier - june 2022
" Je Serai Le Feu" concert - Un Temps Pour Elles Festival - June 2023
« Marielou Jacquard is light and mutinous (Chaminade, Arrieu) or dark and poignant (Taverner, Shostakovich),
her round and homogeneous mezzo tone at the service of a beautiful expressivity. »
Diapason - Anne Ibos-Augé - Published on june 12th 2023
Cosi Fan Tutte at the Clermont Ferrand theater - February 2023
« We retain the perfect diction and the natural charisma of Marielou Jacquard, whose exquisite Despina plays as well on her sensuality as on her sense of burlesque for a lightness and vocally impeccable interpretation. »
Forum Opéra - Anne Rouhette
« Regarding Despina, the sparkling Marielou Jacquard embodies with obvious relish, drawing a character full of vice and cunning, with a confident voice and melodious intonations. She also makes you smile cheerfully at the sight of this zany doctor coming, with a top hat and a grotesque ruff around his neck, to cure the two lovers with his Messmer stone hanging at a swinging pendulum. »
Olyrix - Pierre Géraudie
« Let us notice the piquant Despina of Marielou Jacquard in her “Una donna a quindici anni” of great smooth. She solemnly imposes an unapologetic “In uomini, in soldieri”. »
Bachtrack - Roland Duclos
Virtu in L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Théâtre National du Rhin - March and April 2023
« Mezzo-soprano Marielou Jacquard embodies Virtu with a crystalline voice and a light vibrato. »
Olyrix - Marie Antunes serra
« The cuddly and generous Virtu of Marielou Jacquard chooses resilience in a long-term breath. »
Opéra Online - Thibault Vick
« The elegant Virtu of Marielou Jacquard »
Wanderersite - David Verdier
Lakmé by Delibes at the Opéra Comique - September / October 2022
« Marielou Jacquard' Rose is an excellent and horrifying chatterbox »
Paul Fourier - Toute la culture
« the spirited Marielou Jacquard. »
Vincent Guillemin - Res Musica
Thaïs by Massenet at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées - April 2022
"We remember the laughing and mocking [Crobyle and Myrtale] by Cassandre Berthon and Marielou Jacquard"
Alain Attyasse - Resmusica
“Cassandre Berthon and Marielou Jacquard embody Crobyle and Myrtale respectively, in a duet with salient highs"
Lara Othman - Olyrix
Femmes artistes, Femmes d’actions Festival: a weekend with George Sand - September 2021
« Marielou Jacquard, mezzo-soprano with a tonic and light voice, offers melodies transcribed by Pauline Viardot. »
« Marielou Jacquard, mezzo-soprano that the public finds with pleasure, offers a fuller and liberated voice in the role of Mercedes. »
Joëlle Rallet - Olyrix
« Marielou Jacquard, wonderful recitalist »
« Superb Mercedes by Marielou Jacquard, which shows that she is not just a recitalist (we greatly appreciated her the day before in traditional arias). »
Junon in Actéon by Charpentier - Théâtre du Châtelet - December 2020
« the mezzo-soprano affirms her determination with an ample timbre as well as a full voice »
Charlotte Saulneron - resmusica.com
« As for the vengeful goddess Juno, she is sung with character by the mezzo-soprano Marielou Jacquard, with a velvety tone. » Olyrix.com
Récital at the Orsay-Royaumont Academy - October 2019
« Relying on a solid, flexible instrument, [...] this light mezzo-soprano offers brilliant highs allied to scenic ease and economy of means, mainly through the gaze, which hit the mark in quite tasty Natural Histories by Maurice Ravel. »
« The mezzo Marielou Jacquard (accompanied by Kunal Lahiry), in front of Van Gogh's Nuit étoilée, gives a very pleasant and velvety tone, a quivering and elegant line of song in Schubert's Romanze and Wolf's Die Nacht, as well as a real ease in appropriating the contemporary repertoire (brilliant interpretation of two melodies by George Crumb: The Night in silence under many a star and Dance of the Moon in Santiago). »
Stéphane Lelière - Olyrix.com
Apollo in Coronis - Théâtre de Caen - Fall 2019
« Apollo, little rooster mounted on its spurs, played by a funny Marielou Jacquard »
« Marielou Jacquard embodies the role of Apollo with conviction. A beautiful technique with well-projected bright highs bring the requested theatricality to the character »
Véronique Boudier - Olyrix.com
« The duet with the Marielou Jacquard's Apollo is very precise, their two voices marrying wonderfully. The latter, arched legs, asserts a comic presence which is found in the theatricality of its phrasing and the brilliance of its voice. » Damien Dutilleul- Olyrix- 7.11.2019
« Marielou Jacquard and Caroline Meng brilliantly embody Apollo and Neptune. » Webtheatre Christian Wasselin 7.11.2019
"« Marielou Jacquard in God of the sun and Caroline Meng in God of the sea are absolutely amazing, putting an impeccable vocal technique and loud voices at the service of these two characters both disturbing and funny despite themselves. » Forum Opera Jean-Marcel Humbert 8.11.2019
« the bouncing Apollo of Marielou Jacquard digs the ambiguity of a cruel and hysterical character. » Bachtrack Philippe Ramin 8.11.2019
« Marielou Jacquard's fabulous Appolo with highs filled with panache » Classique News 18.11.2019
« It’s Marielou Jacquard, in the role of Costanza, who convinces the most with her crystalline timbre and her musical intelligence. » TLZ - Costanza in Riccardo Primo - HÄNDEL 8.11.2019
« The mezzo Marielou Jacquard does not hesitate to deploy her very anchored voice, with a broad seat, with a storytelling prosody, flexible and articulated. » Olyrix - Recital of french Melodies at the Abbaye de Royaumont
« Marielou Jacquard embodies Costanza with a flexible voice, which underlines the deep sensitivity of the character. Through its musicality and extremely well-made piani, it expresses the deep suffering of Costanza. » Online Musik Magazin - Costanza in Riccardo Primo, HÄNDEL
INTERVIEWS
Marielou Jacquard answers Prout's famous questionnaire for Forum Opéra! Read the questionnaire
Interview by Aliette de Laleu for Présence Compositrices - July 2020 - Read the interview
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