This season, Albane Carrère will sing The Fairy Queen (Purcell) at the Metz Opera House, the Fox in the Little Cunning Vixen (Janacek) at the Bastille Opera House, Mercedes'part in Carmen at the Grand Avignon Opera House, The Gypsie Girl in The Diary of One Who Disappeared (Janacek) on tour in France, and the title role of Donna in Peter Eötvös's world first scenic version of "Senza Sangue", at the Avignon Grand Opera House and at the Armel Festival Opera House in Budapest. She will also give various concerts in France, Belgium and China.
The french mezzo-soprano Albane Carrère was born in Vienna (Austria). After graduating in sociology at the ULB (Free Brussels University), she joined the Brussels "Conservatoire Royal de Musique" and the "Koninklijk Conservatorium", where she ended up her curriculum with a "High Distinction" diploma. She improved her singing in "Master Classes" with Nadine Denize, Teresa Berganza and Ann Murray, at the "European Opera Center" and at the "Académie Européenne de Musique" of the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
In 2014-2015, Albane Carrère is Zerlina for the new open air opera tour staging by Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, then Lucienne (Die Tote Stadt, Korngold) at the Nantes Opera House and at The Nancy Opera house. In June, she will sing in the "Musiques en Fête" live broadcast from the Théâtre Antique within the framework of the "Chorégies d'Orange".
In 2013-2014, she plays the role of Adine in Benoît Mernier's world-wide creation "La Dispute", at the "Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie", the second lady (Die Zaubeflöte-Mozart) at the Toulon opera house and has sung as soloist at the "Théâtre Antique", in the "Chorégies d'Orange" Festival with the Avignon lyric orchestra. She is then Zerlina in Don Giovanni at the Tours and Reims Opera houses, and Mercedes in Carmen. In concerts, she sings in Paris, at the "Petit Palais" and at the "Cité de la musique" with the Opera Fuoco Ensemble, at the Toulon Opera house, at Bordeaux with CroisiEurope and in Saint-Pétersburg and Sweden with the Contraste Ensemble.
As a solo mezzo-soprano at the Rouen opera house (2010-2012), she sang in the rôles of the "second lady" (Die Zauberflöte - Mozart), Karolka (Jenufa - Janacek), Mrs Grose (The Turn of the Screw - B.Britten), and she concluded the season with Flora's part (La Traviata -Verdi) at the Versailles Opera house.
In 2010-2011, she sang in the title rôle of Massenet's opera "Thérèse" at the "Opéra Royal de Wallonie".
In 2008, she made her début in the opera in Mallika's rôle, in Delibes' ''Lakmé", at the Gand opera house, and she played Maria's part in the musical "The Sound of Music" at the "Palais des Beaux-Arts" and at the Liège "Forum". She was several times invited in Switzerland within the framework of the "Progetto Martha Argerich", where she played Samantha's part in Alexis Weissenberg's "La Fugue"; on that occasion, she was accompanied by Martha Argerich and Eduardo Hubert, among others (EMI/Virgin Classics live recording), and she also took part in a concert dedicated to the american musical
Since 2005, Albane Carrère has been several times invited as a young hope in opera singing at "Solistes au Domaine", with guest star opera singers like Barbara Hendricks, José Van Dam and Yvan Rebroff, at the "Brussels Summer Festival", the" Nuits Musicales de Beloeil", the "Festival de l'Eté Mosan", the "Midi-Minimes", the Stavelot Festival and the Brussels "Bozar".
Albane Carrère is a finalist in the annual audition of the Centre Français de Promotion Lyrique (2011)