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lucile richardot

Mezzo-sopran

Madrigalist as well as soloist, this committed ‘baroque singer’ was distinguished in 2025 as ‘Opera Artist’ of the year by Les Victoires de la musique classique, and « Musical personality of the year » by the French Union of Reviewers.

She discovered singing as a child in her hometown of Epinal and initially pursued a career as a journalist. Trained at “Maîtrise de Notre-Dame”, then at “CRR” in Paris in early music, she embraces all musical eras and styles, both in concert and on stage. She has performed with Il Seminario Musicale, Le Poème Harmonique, Les Paladins, Solistes XXI, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Collegium 1704, Het Collectief,Il Giardino Armonico, The English Concert, Le Concert de la Loge, Les Accents, Les Surprises, Faenza, the Orchestre National de France, and regularly with Correspondances, Pygmalion, Les Arts Florissants, Pulcinella, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, and Acte 6.

She also devises vibrant recitals with harpsichordists Jean-Luc Ho and Philippe Grisvard, as well as with pianists Anne de Fornel and Adam Laloum.

She has performed in cities ranging from Rotterdam to Toronto, via London, Liverpool, Amsterdam, Prague,Hamburg, Wrocław, Madrid and Boston. Regular at Opéra de Rouen, Théâtre de Caen, Opéra-Comique, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, she has been acclaimed at La Fenice in Venice, Carnegie Hall in New York and La Scala in Milan. She has taken on the roles of the Messagiera, Penelope, Arnalta, Juno and Ino, the Sorceress and Spirit, Cornelia, Circe (Desmarest), Goffredo, the Pythoness, as well as Geneviève in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, Gertrude in Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet, Mescalina in Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre, and finally the long-awaited Madame de Croissy in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites in 2025 in Rouen. She returned during Summer 2025 to the Salzburg Festival, then made her debuts, the Summer after, in Drottningholm Slottsteater near Stockholm, before venturing into the works of Tchaikovsky (Iolanta in Rouen, early 2026) and Ponchielli (La Gioconda at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Spring 2027, along with Anna Netrebko), prior a Spanish tour of Haendel’s Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno with Il Giardino Armonico, before committing in her first Garsington Festival for Haendel’s Serse, then touring the title role of Griselda by Vivaldi at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Madrid and Vienna under Julien Chauvin (Le Concert de la Loge).

She performs the works of Mahler, Berlioz, Stravinsky and Poulenc with great delight, notably under the baton of Sir John Eliot Gardiner, François-Xavier Roth, Louis Langrée, Reinbert de Leeuw and Susanna Mälkki, and the greatest Baroque works alongside Paul Agnew, Philippe Jaroussky, Raphaël Pichon and Sébastien Daucé.

Her first solo album, Perpetual Night, released in 2018 with Correspondances on the Harmonia Mundi label, received a host of international awards and inspired the show Songs, directed by Samuel Achache. Also for Harmonia Mundi, she recorded the album Berio To Sing in 2021 with the collaboration of Geoffroy Jourdain’s Les Cris de Paris, and in early 2023, she presented, with Anne de Fornel, the first complete collection of the songs by Nadia and Lili Boulanger on a triple album, Les Heures Claires, which is already considered a benchmark.

Among many involvements in recordings for HM with Pygmalion and Les Arts Florissants, 2025 marked the release of a new solo album, once again in collaboration with Correspondances, Northern Light – the German-Swedish counterpart to Perpetual Night – between other contributions to other labels, especially with Les Paladins for Lucrezia (Aparté, 2024) and the upcoming Il Signor Lulli (2026).

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