Soprano Cécile Achille started learning signing at a very young age in choirs of the Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris. She studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMD) under Mireille Alcantara and Elène Golgevit. She has received scholarships from Fondation de France – Prix Dauphin de Verna and Fondation Meyer.

She made her debut in 2011 at the Opéra-Comique in the role of Antoinette in Reynaldo Hahn’s Ô mon bel inconnu. She has worked with numerous prominent conductors, including Emmanuel Olivier, Lionel Sow, Julien Chauvin, Emmanuelle Haïm, Laurence Equilbey, Alain Altinoglu, and Paavo Järvi, as well as outstanding directors – Marguerite Borie, Emmanuelle Cordoliani, Vincent Vittoz, Jeanne Debost, Florent Siaud, Charlotte Nessi, Thierry Thieû Niang, Michel Fau, Guillaume Gallienne, and Jérôme Deschamps. She has starred at numerous festivals and prestigious concert halls, including Théâtre du Châtelet and Salle Pleyel; she also took part in a performance of Monteverdi’s Vespro della beata Vergine at the Notre-Dame Cathedral.

In 2013, she joined the Opéra-Comique Academy in Paris, where she played the roles of Françoise in Hahn’s Ciboulette, Maguelonne in Viardot’s Cendrillon, and performed in works by Poulenc.

She is an avid lover of Mozart’s repertoire – she played the role of Papagena in Die Zauberflöte under the baton of Nicolas Krüger, and starred as Ilia in Idomeneo, re di Creta (with Compagnie Opéra.3). Her fascination with early music led her to the little-known sources of opéra-comique repertoire, which she explored as La Comédie Italienne in Les Funérailles de la Foire; she also performed the roles of Eglé in Gluck’s Echo et Narcisse, of Énone and Proserpine in Charpentier’s La descente d’Orphée aux Enfers (with Concert d’Astrée in Lille and Dijon). She has also performed in Poland, starring as Amor and Phani in Les Indes galantes in Bydgoszcz, as well as Poppea in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea and Flora in Rameau’s Naïs at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw. She also played Diane in Charpentier’s Actéon at the Royal Opera House in Versailles.

In 2010, she won the Académie internationale de musique Maurice Ravel Prize. As of now, she pursues her passion for chamber music in collaboration with clarinettist Claire Voisin and pianist Marina Pizzi as part of the Trio Marie Nodier ensemble, which specialises in Romantic and contemporary repertoire, as well as in duo with pianist Florence Boissolle.

She won the 2nd place in the 2017 Concours International de Chant de Marseille in the Opera category for her performances of works by Rossini, Bizet and Stravinsky, and a special prize from the Slovak National Opera at the 2018 International Vocal Competition of Gabriela Beňačková for La sonnambula and Ophelia.

Recently, she has performed the roles of Madame Mathurin and Collette in Richard Coeur-de-lion (with Le Concert Spirituel led by Hervé Niquet, Royal Opera House in Versailles); Lucine in Le testament de tante Caroline (with Les Frivolités Parisiennes); starred in Psyche (with Ensemble Correspondances) and sang Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor Op. 125 (at the La Folle Journée de Nantes). Additionally, she performed in Georges Dandin (with Ensemble Marguerite Louise) and Flaubert’s Le château des coeurs at the Berlioz Festival in La Côte-Saint-André, as well as in concerts with Les Surprises, Le Temps Suspendu and Ensemble Marguerite Louise.

The years 2021–2022 brought collaborations with Doulce Mémoire (the Oude Muziek Festival in Utrecht and a later tour in the Netherlands), Ensemble Marguerite Louise (including Georges Dandin, Larmes de Grâce); and the Palace of Versailles, where she performed in Richard Coeur-de-lion (with Le Concert Spirituel), Le Nozze di Figaro (led by Gaétan Jarry), and Circe (with Les Nouveaux Caractères). Some of her most notable roles during this period also include Der Fledermaus in Lyon and the Harmonia Sacra festival in Valenciennes.

Cécile Achille took part in the recordings of Charpentier’s Les Arts florissants for Château de Versailles Spectacles (as La Paix, Ensemble Marguerite Louise, 2018); Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor Op. 125 for Mirare (2020); Leclair’s Scylla et Glaucus (Il Giardino d’Amore, 2021), and Mélodies de Fauré (led by Takénori Némoto, 2021).

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Martyna Pastuszka - zdjęcie

2022

Martyna Pastuszka

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2020

Raphaël Pichon

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Zdjęcie przedstawiające Antonio Florio

2019

Antonio Florio

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2018

John Butt

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2017

Vincent Dumestre.

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