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The French-American soprano, Erminie Blondel, trained as a violist, studied at the Geneva Conservatory, graduated with a 1er Prix at the Rueil-Malmaison Conservatory, and holds a Masters Degree in Recital Arts from the Paris Sorbonne. She was a member of the CNIPAL Opera Studio in 2009-2010. She now prepares her operatic roles with Cynthia Jacoby and internationally acclaimed coach Irene Kudela of the Paris Opera.
In 2021, Erminie Blondel performed Micaela in Georges Bizet's Carmen at the Reims Opera, directed by Paul-Emile Fourny, and made her role debut as Contessa Almaviva in W.A. Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro at the Clermont-Ferrand Opera. She sang the title role of The Merry Widow in Avignon in 2020, performed at Musiques en Fête, the opening gala of the Chorégies d'Orange in 2019, 2021, and 2022, live broadcast on French television, and a gala with the Orchestre National de Lyon in Vichy in 2021. In 2019, she performed Ariane et Barbe-Bleue by Dukas (Bellangère) for her house debut at Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse. She was Lisette Oropesa's cover in La Traviata (Violetta) at the Greek National Opera, a role she performed in 2012 at Teatro della Concordia in Torino and in Paris, London and Shanghaï in 2016. She sang La Voix Humaine in Beijing (2018) and in Clermont-Ferrand (2014), Marguerite in Faust (2018) and Micaela in Carmen (2017) at La Seine Musicale, Pamina in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in Clermont-Ferrand (2018), and at Naturbühne Gräfinthal (2016), Juliet in Benda's Romeo and Juliet in Clermont-Ferrand (2016), Antonia in Les Contes d'Hoffmann in Pisa, Lucca, Livorno, Novara under Guy Condette (2014), in 2012 Konstanze in W.A. Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, the title role in Massenet's Manon...
Erminie Blondel also has a passion for Oratorio: among others she has performed W.A. Mozart's Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, Exsultate Jubilate, Great Mass in C minor and Requiem; L.v. Beethoven's Symphony No. 9; Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle; Verdi Requiem… She has recently recorded an album of Lieder by composers who were victims of the Nazi regime (Laks, Saguer, Ullmann, Kowalski and Ilse Weber), with pianist Thomas Tacquet: Jewish Destinies.
Future engagements include two productions and a national tour of La Traviata (Violetta) in Reims, Clermont-Ferrand and Massy, La Nonne Sanglante (Agnès) by Gounod in Saint-Etienne, and Lakmé (Miss Ellen) at the Monte-Carlo Opera and Théâtre des Champs Elysées. |
