Juliette Raffin-Gay is a French soprano singer. She discovered the art of singing at the conservatory in Rouen, where she was born, and was also trained as a pianist and a dancer.
She continued her apprenticeship at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, and participated in masterclasses. She worked with Sophie Aguessy, Ilona Baldo, Elisabeth Vidal, Luciana Serra, Yves Sotin, Alain Buet, Camilla Tilling … She quickly won international singing competitions: the Leopold Bellan competition (Paris 2013), the Arles Competition (2013) and the Ernst Haefliger competition in Switzerland (Gstaad 2014).
Opéra
Thanks to her eclectic training (she also has a degree in musicology) she explores a vast repertoire ranging from baroque to modern music. She sang under the direction of Vincent Dumestre as well as Kenneth Weiss during her studies and interpreted the role of Honor in King Arthur by Purcell under the direction of Michel Laplénie (Festival du Périgord Noir).
She sang Eurydice in Orfée et Eurydice by Christoph Gluck, the role of Rowan in The Little Sweep by Benjamin Britten (Rochefort Theater). Under the direction of Jean-Claude Malgoire, she performed the opera Christophe Colomb by Félicien David and L’Homme et son Désir by Darius Milhaud; the role of Aloes in Emmanuel Chabrier’s Star under the direction of Alexis Kossenko (Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing).
She also sang under the direction of Emmanuel Olivier, Alain Altinoglu, Hervé Niquet, Ben Glassberg.. She worked with stage directors Olivier Dhénin, Christian Schiaretti, Federico Grazzini, Jean-Philippe Desrousseaux, Richard Brunel… Perhaps it’s the German opera that moves her the most; she sang Der Kleine Sandmann in Hänsel und Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck, under the direction of Robert Houssart and Marie‘s title role in Das kleine Mädchen mit Den schwfelhölzern by August Enna, under the direction of Julien Masmondet. She also interpreted the role of Venus in Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser, and the role of Servilia in The Clemence of Titus by W.A. Mozart.
Chamber Music – Oratorio
Her passion for the lied and the melody, nourished by her practice of the piano and cultivated during her classes with Anne Le Bozec and François Leroux, leads her to perform in recital with a more intimate relationship with the public, which she appreciates all as much.
With Oswald Sallaberger and La Maison Illuminée, she sang melodies and airs from opera and concerts arranged and orchestrated for various groups. In oratorio, she sang in collaboration with different choirs the Requiem of Mozart and Gounod, the Gloria of Vivaldi, the Mass in Ut by beethoven, the Mass of the Children by Rutter, the Petite Solemn Mass by Rossini, Israel in Egypt by Handel… Sensitive to the mediation of her art, she also opens up to creation, by going to meet the composers of today. She performs in partnership with IRCAM, the work « You’ll Drown, Dear » for voice and electronic tape by composer Sivan Eldar. Juliette is member of Accentus Choir.
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