Cassandre Berthon studied violin, chamber music, and music theory at the Conservatoire of Marseille. She began studying voice in 1990 with Camille Maurane. She was awarded the Chabrier-Poulenc Prize at the French Music Competition and, in 1994, received the Young Hope Prize at the UFAM Competition, presided over by Dame Joan Sutherland. She made her stage debut in 1996 at the Frankfurt Opera in the role of Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro. Since then, she has performed on major international opera stages, including the Opéra National de Paris, Opéra Comique, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Capitole de Toulouse, Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, Opéra National du Rhin, and the opera houses of Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Antwerp, Ghent, Liège, Lausanne, Karlsruhe, Halle, Cologne, Düsseldorf, the Royal Opera House in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Teatro Real in Madrid, the San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, and at the festivals of Aix-en-Provence and Salzburg, among others.
Her roles have included Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Susanna (The Marriage of Figaro), Gilda (Rigoletto), Octavia (Cléopâtre by Massenet), Henriette of France (I Puritani), the title roles in Iphigénie en Aulide (Strasbourg), Véronique(Nancy), L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, and Massenet’s
Cendrillon (Strasbourg, New York City Opera), and again Gilda in Rigoletto.
She also performs in concert, with a repertoire ranging from Baroque to contemporary music, including sacred works such as Couperin’s Leçons de ténèbres, Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle, Mozart’s Mass in C minor, Vivaldi’s Laudate pueri, and the Requiems of Mozart, Brahms, and Fauré, as well as Haydn’s The Creation and French art song.
Her discography includes a recording dedicated to Offenbach (Opera Rara), a tribute to Charpentier and Molière with the ensemble Amarillis, and L’Étranger by Vincent d’Indy (alongside Ludovic Tézier). She also appears in video recordings of Orphée aux Enfers (Opéra de Lyon), L’Incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea, Aix-en-Provence Festival), and The Marriage of Figaro (Opéra National de Paris).
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“Di buon livello anche la prova di Cassandre Berthon nel ruolo di Annina “
Albert Dilengue, Connessi all’Opera
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distribution”
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