Gwendoline Blondeel, soprano, joined the young artists’ program of the Grand Théâtre de Genève after studying at the Institut Royal Supérieur de Musique et de Pédagogie in Namur (Belgium) and the Académie du Théâtre de La Monnaie in Brussels. In 2019, she won first prize at the Froville Competition and was discovered in 2021 by William Christie as Aurore in Mondonville’s opera “Tuton et l’Aurore” at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. Since then, she has been a sought-after interpreter of 17th- and 18th-century music. Her repertoire includes roles in French Baroque music such as Sangaride in Lully’s “Atys,” Jonathas in Charpentier’s “David et Jonathas,” and Alphise in Rameau’s “Les Boréades,” as well as roles in major Italian Baroque operas such as La Musica (“L’Orfeo”), Almirena (“Rinaldo”), Dalinda (“Ariodante”), and Morgana (“Alcina”). She has also sung Blonde in Mozart’s “Die Entführung aus dem Serail,” Frasquita in Bizet’s “Carmen,” Marie in Donizetti’s “La fille du régiment,” Clorinde in Rossini’s “Cenerentola,” and the soprano part in Mendelssohn’s “Lobgesang.” Her performances have taken her to the Opéra Royal de Versailles, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, Beaune Festival, Teatro Real Madrid, Opernhaus Zürich, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, as well as Bruges and Vienna, working with conductors such as Leonardo García Alarcón, Stéphane Fuget, Christophe Rousset, Diego Fasolis, Philippe Herreweghe, Sébastien Daucé, Thomas Hengelbrock, Emmanuelle Haïm, and Kazushi Ono.