Jeanine De Bique
Soprano Jeanine De Bique described as "one of the most exciting sopranos to catch onstage these days". Her wide-ranging repertoire includes roles such as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Micela (Carmen), Agathe (Der Freischütz), Violetta (La Traviata), title roles Alcina, Rodelinda (Opus Klassik), Bellezza (Il Trionfo del Tempo e Disinganno), Bess (Porgy and Bess), Ilia (Idomeneo), Poppea (L'incoronazione di Poppea), Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare) Telaïre (Castor et Pollux), Helena (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Isabel (Lessons in love and Violence) and La Folie (Platée). Guest engagements include: Opéra national de Paris, Vienna State opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Zürich Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Dutch Opera & Ballet, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Philharmonie de Paris, Musikverein Vienna, Konzerthaus Berlin, Bozar Brussels, Theater an der Wien, Salzburg Festival, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Carnegie Hall and BBC Proms amongst others. Highlights of her concert appearances include Chicago & Pittsburgh Symphonies, Philadelphia orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic and London Symphony.
Opera highlights of Ms. De Bique's 2026/2027 season include Juliette (Romeo et Juliette) at La Monnaie, Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) at Opéra National de Paris and Armida (Rinaldo) at Opernhaus Zürich. Concert highlights include her return to the BBC proms in Bach's c minor mass with Jonathan Cohen, a european and US tour of a new baroque and Caribbean folk program with Apollo's Fire Echoes across the Atlantic, artist in residence at Bozar, Brussels presenting 6 concerts including Goercki's 3rd Symphony & Andre Previn's Honey and Rue with the Belgian National Orchestra, recital with pianist Aaron Wajnberg at La Monnaie, and a Mozart concert with Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. She appears with the New York Philharmonic in Handel's Messiah and the same work combined with Beethoven's 6th Symphony with Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck, in concert with Thomas Hengelbrook and Orchestre de chambre de Paris at Theâter des Champs Élysées. Her critically acclaimed debut album 'Mirrors' with Concerto Köln will be presented at Köln Philharmonie.
Earlier this season, she was a guest with Le Concert de la Loge at Musée du Louvre and presented her award winning album 'Mirrors' with Concerto Köln at Zürich Opera at the company's first Zürich Baroque festival. The solo debut album was released by Berlin Classics in 2021 with her 'dazzling virtuosity' (Gramophone) and rewarded with the 2022 Opus and Edison Klassik Awards for Best Vocal Solo Recording, a Diapason d'Or and Editor's Choice plaudits in Gramophone, Fono Forum, and Opera Magazine. Passionate about giving voice to the voiceless, the soprano was appointed Youth Ambassador for Peace through music by the National UNESCO Commission of Trinidad and Tobago. Miss De Bique is excited for her return to perform with La Philharmonic this season.