Béatrice Uria-Monzon


Béatrice Uria Monzon is a French mezzo-soprano.

Biography

Daughter of the Spanish painter Antonio Uria-Monzon, Béatrice Uria Monzon studied at the secondary school Joseph Chaumié, at the Bernard Palissy d'Agen High School and at the Catholic High School St Jean de Lectoure where she was introduced to singing in the choir of the high school led by Roland Fornerod. She then went to the University of Bordeaux. She entered the Conservatoire de Bordeaux, then joined the of Marseille, and the École d'art lyrique of the Paris Opera.
She began her career as a lyric singer in 1987, as a mezzo-soprano. In 1989, she was Chérubin in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro at the Opéra national de Lorraine.
She is known for her numerous performances of the title role of Bizet's Carmen which she interpreted at the Opéra Bastille in 1993 and 1994, then again in 1997, 1998, 1999, and on the most important stages of the world during the same period.
She has also performed the French and Italian repertoires: Massenet: Charlotte in Werther, Hérodiade, Dulcinée in Don Quichotte, Chimène in Le Cid, Anita in La Navarraise; Berlioz: Cassandre and Didon in Les Troyens, Béatrice in Béatrice et Bénédict, Marguerite in la Damnation de Faust; Ambroise Thomas: Gertrude in Hamlet, Mignon ; Poulenc: Mère Marie in Dialogues of the Carmelites; Saint-Saëns: Dalila in Samson and Delilah, Offenbach: Giulietta in The Tales of Hoffmann;
Italian repertoire: Bellini: Adalgisa in Norma, Donizetti: Sarah in Roberto Devereux, Eleonore in La Favorite ; Verdi: Fenena in Nabucco, Amnéris in Aida, Eboli in Don Carlos ; Mascagni: Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana and also Wagner as Vénus in Tannhauser as well as Judith in Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, in the Hungarian language.
In 2012, she performed in Puccini's Tosca.

Discography

;Opera integrals
;Other vocal works