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Jenny Daviet

Soprano

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“Jenny Daviet consistently provides the loveliest singing in the performance”
(MusicWeb International, November 2017)

A striking stage presence and exceptional musicality have highlighted French soprano Jenny Daviet as an emerging talent with a broad and versatile repertoire.

This past season marked Jenny’s first foray into the music of George Benjamin, with performances of Into the Little Hill at Teatros del Canal Madrid in collaboration with Teatro Real with the current season bringing a further opportunity to explore his operatic repertory as Agnès in Benjamin Lazar’s new production of Written on Skin for Oper Kӧln, conducted by Franҫois-Xavier Roth. Additional highlights of the current season include Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 with l’Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal under Rafael Payare, as well as with Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth and she returns to Oper Kӧln for a second new production, as Héro in Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict.

Jenny Daviet created Fernando Fiszbein’s El hombre que amaba a los peros for Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires and sang Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten for Oper Köln. A significant career highlight came for Jenny Daviet in 2016 with her debut as Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande) for Malmö Opera, in a new production directed by Benjamin Lazar and conducted by Maxime Pascal for which she received unanimous critical acclaim, with the performance subsequently released on DVD by BelAir Classiques.

On the concert platform Daviet has recently joined Kent Nagano for Messiaen’s Poèmes pour Mi with the Bayerische Rundfunk Orchester, sang Pierrot Lunaire for Opéra de Rouen, joined Claire Gibault and the Paris Mozart Orchestra for Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, sang Vivier’s Bouchara at the Kölner Philharmonie and Fauré’s Requiem at the International Rostropovich Festival in Moscow under Kazuki Hamada. In recital she has performed extensively in a range of programmes with Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth including works by Stravinsky, Delage, Debussy and Satie.

Jenny Daviet began her musical studies as a pianist before joining the Conservatory Regional Influence De Paris under the mentorship of Laurence Equilbey, and started her career as a member of Opéra de Rouen where she was able to debut many key operatic roles including Blonde (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Serpetta (La finta giardiniera), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Second Woman (Dido and Aeneas) and Micaëla (Carmen).

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Mélisande | "Mes longs cheveux" | Malmö Opera 2016 © BelAirClassiques

Claude Vivier’s Enlightened Child © Ein Tanztheater von Natalia Horecna

“The soprano Jenny Daviet shone with flawless ease…”

(Kӧlner Stadt-Anzeiger Kӧln, June 2019)

“The slender, firm and flexible voice of Jenny Daviet can easily compete with the accompaniment in the Hercules Hall… With expressive gestures, which also capture her singing, she imaginatively presents the lyrics, transforms the language into music and thus creates a dreamy, ecstatic atmosphere. It is quite possible that the composer, if he could have heard that, would change his preference on the casting of this piece — and henceforth would have wished for a singer like Jenny Daviet.”

(Abendzeitung Muenchen, February 2019)

“Jenny Daviet incarnates Mélisande, a small, wounded, cold thing…Her voice is in perfect harmony with the character, as written by Debussy and displayed in this staging: she shows all the frail and fragile but with assured technique”

( Olyrix, November 2017)

“The Mélisande of Jenny Daviet is near ideal, in voice and appearance, and consistently provides the loveliest singing in the performance, including the upper reaches of her song ‘Mes longs cheveux descendent jusq’ua seuil de la tour’ that opens Act III, scene 2”

(MusicWeb International, November 2017)

“Sweet & serious, Jenny Daviet’s Mélisande, possesses two big worried blue eyes and a meaty soprano.”

(Diapason, November 2017)

“The same can be said of Jenny Daviet’s Mélisande, clean tone, vibrant timbre, teeming with teen femininity. We find here a role as adapted to her voice as her usual Mozartian repertoire”

(Classica, November 2017)

“Jenny Daviet as Mélisande is captivating in her innocence and she sings quite beautifully throughout… she is rather perfect for the role, matching the character’s often detached manner.”

(Classical Net, November 2017)

“the young soprano Jenny Daviet keeps her promise as Serpetta and her charming “Chi vuol godere il mondo” is well projected and full of delicacy.”

(Forum Opera)

“The delicious Tatyana Ilyin (Mercedes) and Jenny Daviet (Frasquita) bring a breath of fresh air, especially in the card scene with Carmen.”

(Forum Opera)

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Jenny Daviet signs to HarrisonParrott for General Management

Shirley Thomson

Alice Jones