Mezzo-Contralto
✦ Sylvie SULLÉ trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where she earned First Prizes in Vocal Performance, Opera Studies, and Chamber Music, studying under Christiane EDA-PIERRE, Michel ROUX, and Maurice BOURGUE.
✦ She served as a tenured voice professor (hors-classe) at the Georges Bizet Conservatory (20th arrondissement of Paris) and at the Camille Saint-Saëns Conservatory (8th arrondissement of Paris).
✦ Sylvie Sullé has performed on leading opera stages and concert halls both in France — including the Opéra Comique, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Opéra National de Paris-Bastille, Salle Pleyel, the Corum in Montpellier, and the theatres of Angers, Nantes, Lille — and internationally: the Residentie Orchestra Hall in The Hague, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Megaron Musikis in Athens, Teatro Comunale of Bolzano, and Teatro Real in Madrid.
✦ A regular guest at Radio France, she has appeared at the Présences Festival of Contemporary Music, the Saint-Denis Festival, and the festivals of Quimper, La Chaise-Dieu, Alicante, among many others.
✦ She has collaborated with renowned orchestras such as the Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National d’Île-de-France, Orchestre National de Lyon, Residentie Orkest (The Hague), Orchestre National de Montpellier, Orchestre National de Lorraine, and the Ulster Orchestra…
✦ She has worked under the baton of prominent conductors including Luciano Berio, Gary Bertini, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Laurent Cuniot, Paul Daniel, Charles Dutoit, Bruno Ferrandis, Mark Foster, Lawrence Foster, Armin Jordan, Günther Herbig, Richard Hickox, Eliahu Inbal, Marek Janowski, Zoltán Kocsis, Gérard Korsten, Friedemann Layer, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Jacques Mercier, Ingo Metzmacher, Arturo Tamayo, Jacques Schwarz, Jaap van Zweden, Alberto Zedda, and Antoni Wit.
✦ Sylvie Sullé is President of the “Les Maîtres du Chant” competition in Paris (supporting emerging operatic talent), and also collaborates with other associations such as Génération Opéra and Les Amis de Maurice Ohana.
✦ Discography includes:
- Claude Debussy, La Damoiselle Élue (EMI)
- Gustav Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde (chamber orchestra version, AQUARIUS)
- Ahmed Essyad, L’Exercice de l’Amour (MFA Radio France)
- Louis Duray, Images à Crusoé (MANDALA)
- Maurice Ohana, Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy (Timpani)
- Arthur Honegger, Le Roi David (EMI)
- Simon Holt, Canciones (Adès)
- Alfred Bruneau, Lazare, Requiem (ADEF)
- Suzanne Giraud, To One in Paradise — world premiere of the cantata for mezzo and orchestra with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, conductor: Laurent Cuniot (MFA Radio France, awarded “Choc ffff” by Le Monde de la Musique)