mezzo-soprano

 

Pauline Sabatier studied with Gary Magby at the Conservatoire de Musique de Lausanne, Switzerland, where she was awarded in 2007 the solo-performance and teaching diplomas. She was subsequently selected by the Verbier Summer Academy to work with Thomas Quasthoff and Roger Vignoles.

She entered then the Opera Studio National du Rhin, where she spent two seasons from 2007 to 2009.

In 2006, she sang at the Royaumont Foundation in a French music programme with the Orchestre de Picardie and Pascal Verrot.

In 2005 and 2007, she was awarded the Mosetti and Nicatti-de-Luze fellowships.

Pauline gave numerous recitals in Switzerland, France, Czech Republic, Croatia (with the Ensemble Paul Klee) and Tunisia. In 2006 she was invited by the Festival Nuithonie in Fribourg to sing Zerlina, Cherubino and Dorabella.

In 2008, Pauline Sabatier was « Lazuli » in Emmanuel Chabrier’s L’Etoile at the Opera National du Rhin in Strasbourg, Mulhouse and Colmar with the Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse under Benjamin Levy who subsequently invited her to sing the leading role of “Gontran” in Chabrier’s Une Education Manquée at the Théâtre de Caen.

The following season, she was invited to sing Offenbach’s Les Brigands at the Avignon and Besançon Operas.

Pauline subsequently worked with stage director Philippe Arlaud and conductor Emmanuel Joel-Hornak on a new production of the Strasbourg National Opera Studio. She sang the roles of  “La Maman” and “Tasse Chinoise” in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges.

Upcoming projects include several concerts and recitals at the Feldkirch Festival (Austria), a revival of L’Étoile at the Opéra de Limoges, a new Chabrier production at the Opera National de Montpellier and Bach’s Mass in B minor with Marc Minkowski  in Grenoble, Toulouse and Krakow.

As an ADAMI-award winner, Pauline will give a recital during the next Aix-en-Provence Festival.