Concert with Jeanine De Bique

The Trinidad-born soprano Jeanine De Bique studied voice and piano at the renowned Manhattan School of Music in New York. Her wide-ranging repertoire includes roles such as Télaïre ("Castor et Pollux"), Ilia ("Idomeneo"), Violetta ("La traviata"), the title roles in "Alcina" and "L’incoronazione di Poppea", Donna Anna ("Don Giovanni"), Susanna ("Le nozze di Figaro"), Annio ("La clemenza di Tito"), Micaëla ("Carmen"), Agathe ("Der Freischütz"), Helena ("A Midsummer Night’s Dream") and La Folie ("Platée"). Guest engagements have taken her to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Theater an der Wien, the Opéra national de Paris, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, San Francisco Opera, New York’s Carnegie Hall and Houston Grand Opera, as well as to the BBC Proms and the Salzburg Festival. At the Zurich Opera House she sang Isabel in George Benjamin’s "Lessons in Love and Violence" in 2023. She has collaborated with ensembles such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Vienna and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestras, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the London Symphony and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and with conductors including Gustavo Dudamel, Herbert Blomstedt, Lorin Maazel, Iván Fischer, Simon Rattle, Manfred Honeck, William Christie, Raphaël Pichon and Marin Alsop. Her first solo album "Mirrors" with Concerto Köln received the Opus Klassik, the Diapason d’or and the Edison Award in the classical category in 2022, was an Editor’s Choice of Gramophone magazine and was praised by Fono Forum. Jeanine De Bique was appointed Youth Ambassador for Peace by the National UNESCO Commission of Trinidad and Tobago.