Karine Deshayes
Karine Deshayes is a French mezzo-soprano.Biography
Deshayes was born in Paris. She studied musicology at the Sorbonne, then singing with Mireille Alcantara at the Conservatoire de Paris, in which she later also specialized in baroque music under Emmanuelle Haïm. She also attended masterclasses of her mentor Régine Crespin. In 1998 she joined the troupe of Opéra National de Lyon. In 2001, she won several prizes in the "Voix d'Or" competition, and first prize in the "Voix Nouvelles" competition in 2002.
In October 2006 she debuted at the New York Metropolitan Opera as Siébel in Gounod's Faust.Recital
- Après un rêve, with Ensemble Contraste, 2015, Aparté
- Rossini, with Les Forces Majeures, Raphael Merlin, 2016, Aparté
- Karol Beffa's Into the Dark, with Ensemble Contraste, Johan Farjot, Arnaud Thorette, Karol Beffa, Emmanuel Ceysson, 2015, Aparté
- Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, with Sonya Yoncheva, Ensemble Amarillis, 2016, Sony Classical
Collaboration
- Fauré: La bonne chanson Op.61 & Piano Quartet Op.15, with Ensemble Contraste, Geneviève Laurenceau, 2010, Zig-Zag Territories
- Cantates romantiques françaises, with Opera Fuoco, David Stern, 2013, Palazzetto Bru Zane
- Henri Marteau: Complete Works for String Quartet I, with Isasi Quartet, 2018, cpo
