Lucile Richardot

A madrigalist and soloist, who devoted her career to Baroque music. She discovered her love of signing as a child in her home town of Épinal, although she started her professional career as a journalist.

She honed her skills in the Maîtrise de Notre-Dame cathedral choir and at the Regional Conservatory (CRR) in Paris, where she focused on early music. She performs works from all eras and focuses on all styles, both in concert halls and on stage. She has performed with numerous ensembles, including Il Seminario musicale, Le Poème Harmonique, Les Paladins, Solistes XXI, L’Ensemble Intercontemporain, Collegium 1704, Het Collectief, Il Giardino Armonico, The English Concert, Le Concert de la Loge, Les Accents, Les Surprises, Faenza, Orchestre National de France, as well as Correspondances, Pygmalion, Les Arts Florissants, Pulcinella, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien and Acte 6. 

Among the partners contributing to her captivating recitals are harpsichordists Jean-Luc Ho and Philippe Grisvard, as well as pianists Anne de Fornel and Adam Laloum. 

She has been invited to perform on stages around the world, from Rotterdam to Toronto, including i London, Liverpool, Amsterdam, Prague, Hamburg, Wrocław, Madrid and Boston. She is a regular at the Opéra de Rouen, Théâtre de Caen, Opéra-Comique, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Aix-en-Provence Festival. She has also performed at La Fenice in Venice, New York’s Carnegie Hall and Milan’s La Scala. She played numerous roles, including Messagiera, Penelope, Arnalta, Juno and Ino, The Sorceress and the Spirit, Cornelia, Circé (Desmarest), Goffredo, Pythonisse, as well as Geneviève (Debussy), Gertrude (Ambroise Thomas), Mescalina (Ligeti), and in early 2025 in Rouen she starred as Madame de Croissy in Poulenc’s highly anticipated Dialogues of the Carmelites. In 2026, she will dive into the world of Tchaikovsky (Iolanta in Rouen) and Ponchielli (La Gioconda at the Teatro Real in Madrid), and in the summer of 2025 she returned to the Salzburg Festival. 

Lucile Richardot is happy to tackle works by Mahler, Berlioz, Stravinsky and Poulenc, which she performs under the direction of Sir John Eliot Gardiner, François-Xavier Roth, Louis Langrée, Reinbert de Leeuw, Susanna Mälkki and others, as well as major Baroque works led by Paul Agnew, Philippe Jaroussky, Raphaël Pichon and Sébastien Daucé. 

Her first solo album Perpetual Night, recorded in 2018 with Ensemble Correspondances and released by Harmonia Mundi, was showered with international awards and formed the basis of the Songs, a performance directed by Samuel Achache. With Harmonia Mundi, the artist recorded Berio to Sing in 2021 in collaboration with Geoffroy Jourdain’s Les Cris de Paris, and in early 2023, together with Anne de Fornel, she presented the first complete recording of songs by Nadia and Lili Boulanger on the triple album Les heures claires, which is already considered a classic. 

2025 brought a new solo album Northern Light recorded with Ensemble Correspondances. Lucile Richardot was also named singer (artiste lyrique) of the year 2025 by the Victoires de la musique classique jury.