Marielou Jacquard interprets the role of Minerva, a role with an implacable temperament and a speech sometimes wise, sometimes warlike, and abundant vocalizations!
With the lyrical company Les Epopées by Stéphane Fuget.
READ THE PROUST'S FAMOUS QUESTIONNAIRE BY MARIELOU JACQUARD ON FORUM OPÉRA!
“ Playing the acrobat between baroque music and contemporary creation, mezzo Marielou Jacquard cultivates her taste for eclecticism in the diversity of her repertoire. She performed in Acteon by Charpentier with Les Cris de Paris, directed by Benjamin Lazar and shot at the Théâtre du Châtelet, and in the spring she will record Cavalli's Egisto with the Poème Harmonique. In the meantime, she answers, not without humor, to our Proust's questionnaire. "
Marielou Jacquard interprets the role of Junon, accompanied by Les Cris de Paris under the direction of Geoffroy Jourdain, and directed by Benjamin Lazar.
Video recording realized by Corentin Leconte at the Théâtre du Châtelet.
« 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
Young mezzo-soprano with a lush and rare timbre, Marielou Jacquard studied opera singing at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler (Berlin) in Christine Schäfer’s class. She studied over there with KS Julia Varady, Wolfram Rieger for Lied and Peter Berne for Bel Canto.
At a very early age, as she was a member of the Maitrise de Radio France, Marielou discovered her passion for music and stage acting by interpreting her first role, Flora, in The Turn of the Screw by B. Britten, at the Dijon opera in 2002-2003. After that, she incarnated l’ange in Ursule1.1 by Morgan Jourdain, directed by Benjamin Lazare and conducted by Geoffroy Jourdain at the Quimper Theater.
In 2014, conductor Wolfgang Katschner noticed her because of her musicality and vocal agility. He chose her to play the part of Costanza in Händel’s Riccardo Primo at the Händelfestpiele Halle and the Ludwigsburger Festspiele in a Lautten Compagney production. This is the beginning of an affinity with baroque music which asserts a little more every day. The same year, during a residency under René Jacobs at Royaumont, she played Nerone in the Incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi.
She recently embodied the role of Juno in Actéon by Charpentier in a production of Les Cris de Paris by Geoffroy Jourdain, directed by Benjamin Lazare, and collaborated on several occasions with the Poème Harmonique by Vincent Dumestre (Coronis by S. Duron, Egisto by Cavalli) as well as with the Ensemble Correspondances (conductor: Sébastien Daucé) for a North American tour, in repertoire from Membra Jesu Nostri by Buxtehude to French airs de cour from the 17th century.
As an eclectic artist, Marielou is also deeply involved in contemporary creation. She has been 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 creations - My corporate Identity by Thierry Tidrow and Abstract Pieces by Manos Tsangaris. She is dedicatee of several pieces, notably Le Coeur Crucifié by Héloïse Werner.
Over the past few years, she has performed at the Festival d’Aix en Provence Academy, at the Royal Chapelle in Versailles, at the Ambronay Festival and at the Musica Sacra Festival in Quito (Ecuador). In Berlin, she has sung at the Tacheles, the Radial System, and the Konzerthaus.
Recently, she played with temperament the young Cherubino in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro in a French tour of Opéra Eclaté, the 3rd camerist in Le Nain by Zemlinsky at the Lille, Rennes and Caen operas, Lady MacBeth in a creation by guitarist and composer Marc Ducret at the Lille opera as well as Myrtale in Thaïs by Massenet at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. She also participated in a production of L'Enfant et les Sortilèges by Ravel with the ONB (Bordeaux) at the Pulsation Festival of the Ensemble Pygmalion.
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.
She is also involved in highlighting the work of women composers by collaborating on several occasions with the Elles Creative collective (on 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 skills, she has interpreted at the theater the roles of Sascha, Ivanov’s lover, in the eponymous play by Tchekhov, and of Hitler in Germania by Heiner Müller at the Arts Academy of Berlin.
For the 2022/23 season, Marielou will notably participate in productions with Opéra Eclaté (Cosi fan Tutte by Mozart), with the Pygmalion Orchestra at the Opéra-Comique (Lakmé by Delibes), with the Opéra du Rhin (L'incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi), with Génération Mozart (Krönungsmesse by Mozart) as well as with the Harmonic Poem for a revival of Coronis by Durón at the Teatro Real in Madrid.
She will also resume her recital of Brahms' Schöne Maguelone with baritone Stéphane Degout, pianist Alain Planès and narrator Roger Germser at the Les Estivales Musicales festival in Switzerland, at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels and at the Théâtre de l'Athénée in Paris.
Furthermore, the Actéon movie, directed by Benjamin Lazare and Corentin Leconte, produced by Les Cris de Paris is still visible on Arte Concert.
« 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 her phrasing and the brilliance of her voice. »
Olyrix - Appolo / Coronis - DURON
SCHEDULE
SEASON 2021-22
July 16th 2022
Cosi fan Tutte by Mozart
Role: Despina
Choir and orchestra Opéra Éclaté
Staging: Éric Perez
Conductor: Gaspard Brecourt
Soreze, Musique des Lumières Festival
July 25th 2022
Die Schöne Magelone recital
Recital with baritone Stéphane Degout, pianist Alain Planès and narrator Roger Germser
Radio France Festival
Montpellier Opéra Comédie
July 30th 2022
Motets by Bach
August 8th 2022
Membra Jesu Nostri Concert
With Ensemble Correspondances
Conductor: Sébastien Daucé
Bach en Combrailles Festival
Eglise de Pontaumur
September 4th 2022
Die Schöne Magelone recital
Recital with baritone Stéphane Degout, pianist Alain Planès and narrator Roger Germser
Les Estivales Musicales Festival
Temple de Court, Délémont (Switzerland)
September 14th 2022
Die Schöne Magelone recital
Recital with baritone Stéphane Degout, pianist Alain Planès and narrator Roger Germser
Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels
September 28th and 30th, October 2nd, 4th, 6th & 8th 2022
Lakmé by Delibes
Role: Rose
Choir and orchestra Pygmalion
Staging: Laurent Pelly
Conductor: Raphael Pichon
Opéra-Comique, Paris
October 13th and 14th 2022
Cosi fan Tutte by Mozart
Role: Despina
Choir and orchestra Opéra Éclaté
Staging: Éric Perez
Conductor: Gaspard Brecourt
Clermont-Auvergne Opera
November 10th 2022
Krönungsmesse by Mozart
Génération Mozart
Conductor: Pejman Memarzadeh
Châlons-en-Champagne
November 15th 2022
Krönungsmesse by Mozart
December 3rd 2022
Cosi fan Tutte by Mozart
Role: Despina
Choir and orchestra Opéra Éclaté
Staging: Éric Perez
Conductor: Gaspard Brecourt
Brunoy Theater
February 9th 2023
Cosi fan Tutte by Mozart
Role: Despina
Choir and orchestra Opéra Éclaté
Staging: Éric Perez
Conductor: Gaspard Brecourt
Saint-Gaudens
February 11th 2023
Cosi fan Tutte by Mozart
Role: Despina
Choir and orchestra Opéra Éclaté
Staging: Éric Perez
Conductor: Gaspard Brecourt
Pamiers
March 6th 2023
Die Schöne Magelone recital
Recital with baritone Stéphane Degout, pianist Alain Planès and narrator Roger Germser
Athénée Theater, Paris
March 24th, 26th, 28th & 30th 2023
L'incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi
Role: Virtu, Pallade, Mercurio
Ensemble Pygmalion
Staginig: Evgeny Titov
Conductor: Raphaël Pichon
Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg
April 16th and 18th 2023
L'incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi
Role: Virtu, Pallade, Mercurio
Ensemble Pygmalion
Staginig: Evgeny Titov
Conductor: Raphaël Pichon
La Sinne, Mulhouse
April 21st 2023
Cosi fan Tutte by Mozart
Role: Despina
Choir and orchestra Opéra Éclaté
Staging: Éric Perez
Conductor: Gaspard Brecourt
Théâtre de l'Etang, Saint-Estève
April 30th 2023
L'incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi
Role: Virtu, Pallade, Mercurio
Ensemble Pygmalion
Staginig: Evgeny Titov
Conductor: Raphaël Pichon
Colmar Theater
June 10th 2023
Coronis by S. Duron
« Marielou Jacquard does not shy away from deploying her deep-seated, anchored voice, with the supple and articulate prosody of a storyteller. »
Olyrix - Recital at Abbaye de Royaumont
VIDEOS
Alle Videos
Alle Videos
Marielou Jacquard - Actéon de Marc-Antoine Charpentier au Théâtre du Châtelet - Extraits
Una donna a quindici anni - Despina‘s Aria - Cosi fan Tutte - Mozart - Marielou Jacquard
Tchaikovsky - Eugene Oneguine - Olga’s Aria - Marielou Jacquard
Marielou Jacquard dans ABSTRACT PIECES de Manos Tsangaris
PICTURES
 |  |  |
|---|---|---|
 |  |  |
 |  |  |
 |  |  |
 |  |  |
 |  |  |
 |  |  |
 |  |  |
 |  |  |
 |  |  |
 |
DISCOGRAPHY
Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria by Monterverdi
With Les Epopées, conductor: Stéphane Fuget
Château de Versailles Label
Coronis by Duron
With Le Poème Harmonique, conductor: Vincent Dumestre
Alpha Classics Label
Lieder & Balladen
Best Lieder and Ballads of german romanticism in collaboration with
Harmonia Mundi Label
Le Promenoir des Amants
Songs Album of the Académie Orsay/Royaumont in collaboration with
B Records Label
« Marielou Jacquard’s facetiousness as a Cherubino vibrant with desire, jostled around and roughed up, [...] mischievously punctuated the quality of this first-rate production. »
La dépêche du midi - Les Noces de Figaro - Festival de Saint Céré 2018
PRESS
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
See the complete press review
« 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
By Aliette de Laleu for Présence Compositrices - July 2020 - Read the interview
CONTACT
Contact me !
Backstage Opera Management Agency
Dominique RIBER
Corine VERSET
142, rue de Rivoli
F – 75001 Paris
Tél. +33 (0) 1.42555602