Lucile Richardot

Lucile Richardot

MEZZOSOPRÁN

Getting at 11 in the « Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Lorraine » of Epinal, she worked first as a journalist until she was 27.

Graduated in 2008 from the Maîtrise de Notre-Dame de Paris and in 2011 on Early Music from CRR (regional Conservatory) de Paris, she attended teachings of Margreet Hoenig, Noëlle Barker, Paul Esswood, Howard Crook, Jan van Elsacker, Martin Isepp, François Le Roux, Monique Zanetti, Jill Feldman, and John Nelson, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Dominique Visse... In 2012, she founded her own Ensemble, named Tictactus, with two friends at the theorbo, lute and guitar, Stéphanie Petibon and Olivier Labé.

She works regularly in early music as in contemporary répertoire, on stage as in concerts, with Les Solistes XXI (conductor Rachid Safir), Correspondances (Sébastien Daucé), L’Ensemble vocal de Notre-Dame de Paris (Sylvain Dieudonné), Pygmalion (Raphaël Pichon), and since 2012 with Les Arts Florissants for full implementation of Madrigals Books of Monteverdi, conducted by Paul Agnew. He even invited her, on Spring 2014, to perform in Bach St John’s Passion, with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, work also performed the same year at the Ambronay Festival, with Le Concert Etranger (c. Itay Jedlin).
She also sung with Gérard Lesne (for duet concerts), Skip Sempé, Patrick Ayrton, Patrick Cohën-Akénine and Les Folies françoises, Peter van Heyghen and Les Muffatti, and loves to take part of a baroque dance company and a french consort of viols.

Meeting Le Poème Harmonique of Vincent Dumestre in 2007 fort the Lully’s tragedy set in music, Cadmus et Hermione, she’s in 2014 the 2nd Witch for Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in Opéra de Rouen and Opéra Royal de Versailles. With Les Paladins (Jerôme Corréas), in 2011, she played several characters of commedia dell’arte for the rediscovery of L’Egisto, italian « favola in musica » of Mazzocchi and Marazzoli. She sings also with these ensembles for concerts of sacred music.

In 2009, she created the role of the first Aunt in the Philippe Boesmans’ opera, Yvonne, Princesse de Bourgogne, held in Paris Opera Garnier and in the Theater an der Wien. The french Ensemble Intercomporain invites her, end of 2014, for Omaggio a Kurtag of Luigi Nono, in Festival d’Automne in Paris, and she was in Lugano, for the Via Lattea Festival, with L’Instant Donné, the composer Gérard Pesson and the viola player Christophe Desjardins.

Among her new projects and collaborations for 2015 and 2016, a recording with the french Ensemble Faenza (Marco Horvat), another one in Italy with Silete Venti ! (Simone Toni), Haendel’s The Messiah in Netherlands with the Margaretha Consort (Marit Broekroelofs), concerts with the ensembles Pulcinella (Ophélie Gaillard) and Concerto Soave (Jean-Marc Aymes) and for 2017, the Vivaldi’s Opera Arsilda on stage in Czech Republic and the whole Europe with Collegium 1704 (Vaclav Luks), and the three Monteverdi’s Operas with the Monteverdi Choir (Sir John Eliot Gardiner), as Penelope, Messaggiera, Arnalta, Fortuna and Venere.