©Photo: David Noles

©Photo: Baptiste Millot

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Julie Roset

Soprano

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“Roset’s singing would melt a heart of stone, uniformly gleaming yet shaped to perfection, and inhabiting every twist and turn of Handel’s matchless vocal lines.”
Europadisc Classical, August 2022

Grand Winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition in 2022, soprano Julie Roset began her vocal studies at an early age joining the Conservatoire du Grand Avignon, going on to graduate with honors from the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève in 2019. She was awarded her artist diploma in Opera Studies from the Juilliard School in 2022.

Already making her mark on the operatic stage at this early career point, Julie Roset has appeared as Papagena in Die Zauberflöte at Opéra de Toulon and she made her Paris debut as Amour in Mondonville’s Titon & l’Aurore with Les Arts Florissants and William Christie at l’Opéra Comique. Appearances at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence include both Valletto and Amore in L’incoronazione di Poppea under the baton of Leonardo García Alarcón and as Clorinde in Il Combattimento, Théorie du cygne noir, a musical journey through the Italian baroque conducted by Sébastien Daucé. She sang the role of Amour in Les Indes Galantes at Ópera Royal de Versalles as well as at the Beaune Festiva and appeared as Euridice in performances of Rossi’s Orfeo at the Juilliard.

Julie Roset © David Noles — Julie Roset © Jean-Baptiste Millot

As a concert performer, Julie Roset has already formed strong connections with numerous ensembles including Leonardo García Alarcón’s Cappella Mediterranea with whom she has given performances of Bach’s B minor Mass in Dijon and Versailles, a programme of a voce sola works by Monteverdi at the Festival de Valloire, and Sacrati’s La Finta Pazza at the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam. During her residency at the Aix Academy, she performed a programme of Mozart and contemporaries with Ensemble Pygmalion under Raphaël Pichon; and with CAV&MA’s Millennium Orchestra at the Beaune and Namur Festivals, she appeared as the Philistine Woman in Handel’s Samson. Julie made her debut with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France as Galatea (Acis and Galatea) under the baton of Leonardo García Alarcón.

On disc, Julie Roset can be heard in her first solo recording Nun Danket Alle Gott, featuring works by Buxtehude, Hammerschmidt and Monteverdi, with Ensemble Clematis and released on the Ricercar label. Other recent recordings include Sigismondo d’India’s Lamenti e Sospiri with Capella Mediterranea on Ricercar, Brabant with Holland Baroque released on Pentatone, and most recently, l’Orfeo with Cappella Mediterranea released on Alpha Classics.

Highlights of Julie Roset’s 2022/23 season include her debut tour with Philharmonia Baroque in the title role of Theodora under the baton of Richard Egarr and her house debuts at Teatro Real as Euridice/La Musica in Sasha Waltz and Guests acclaimed production of L’Orfeo, conducted by Leonardo García Alarcón, and at Opéra du Rhin as Amore in L’incoronazione di Poppea under Raphaël Pichon. Other concert highlights include a programme of Christmas music by Charpentier with Les Arts Florissants under William Christie and Die Schöpfung with Le Concert de la Loge at Festival de Saint-Denis.

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Cendrillon © Julie Roset

Handel – Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno © Internationale Meistersinger Akademie Neumarkt

Arrière...Je réchauffe les bons, l'Enfant et les Sortilèges, Ravel © Internationale Meistersinger Akademie Neumarkt

Mercè! grido piangendo © Ricercar

Vulnerasti cor meum © Ricercar

“The French soprano Julie Roset was the gentle Euridice and La Musica, performing with vocal and physical suppleness.”

Opera Magazine, February 2023

“Roset sings with crystalline beauty and heartfelt sincerity; the technical élan and exuberance of the ‘Quonaim’ finale have irresistible conviviality.”

Grammophone, Awards 2022 edition

“Vocally, we must highlight the magnificent work of Julie Roset, one of the countless emerging talents of the French Baroque”

scherzo.es, November 2022

“The young French soprano Julie Roset is a Euridice to consider for the next decades, both musically and vocally, to which is added her versatility to dance alongside the virtuosos of the company Sasha Waltz.”

news.dayfr.com, November 2022

“This voice, so moving in its simplicity, brings to these pieces a real aura of sincerity: a little gem”

OnMag, October 2022

“Unquestionably, Julie Roset’s star shines with an increasingly assertive brilliance. The qualities are obvious: technical solidity, supple and precise agility, freshness of a delightful timbre. It dwells with touching simplicity in the relatively well-known motets of Händel.”

Cadences, September 2022

“We can only salute the judicious choice of Leonardo Garcia Alarcon to assign the soprano Julie Roset the role of Galatea. Her voice works wonders in this complex role requiring perfect vocal mastery.”

(ON-mag.fr, May 2022)

“To embody the charming Galatea, an almost idealized paragon of love, the young Julie Roset deploys the freshness and lightness of her voice, particularly in the subtle vocalizations “

(Olyrix, May 2022)

“The angelic sweetness of Julie Roset’s soprano suited the gentle Euridice of the first two acts, and in Act III, when she visited the suicidal Aristeo as an avenging wraith, she summoned an unexpected vehemence of declaration.”

(Opera News, November 2021)

“Julie Roset (Amour) has both superb timbre and supple agility.”

(Bachtrack, January 2021)

“Julie Roset’s sharp and mischievous Amour demonstrates beautiful high notes and a very pure line.”

(Forum Opéra, January 2021)

“Julie Roset ….. the sparkling and lively soprano brilliantly performs her victory duet with Prometheus.”

(Classiquenews.com, January 2021)

“In the role of the Philistine, the young Julie Roset is quite simply flawless. Gentle without being naive, she imbues each of her passages with solid vocals and psychological insight.”

(Concerto-net, December 2020)