Dramatic soprano
The young French-Peruvian soprano Nadège Roullière was born in the Paris region.
She received her first singing lessons at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Départemental du Val de Bièvre. From 2011-15, she studied musicology at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis, graduating with honors with a bachelor’s degree majoring in musical theater dramaturgy. At the same time, she began vocal training, first at La Schola Cantorum in Paris with Kiyoko Okada, and from 2014 at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris, where she was taught first by Colette Hochain and later by Céline Laly. In 2013, as part of the Erasmus program, she studied at Cardiff University School of Music in Wales with Pierre-Maurice Barlier. Since 2018, she has been studying for a bachelor’s degree in voice in the class of Mario Hoff and later Kai Wessel at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, where she passed the entrance examination with the best score.
During her studies in Paris, Nadège Roullière took on various roles in numerous opera productions, such as l’Opinion publique in Orphée aux Enfers by Offenbach, Jacqueline in Le Médecin malgré lui by Gounod, Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini, the Third Lady and the Third Boy in Mozart’s Magic Flute, Orestes in Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène. She was also the alto solo in Mozart’s Requiem with the Choir and Orchestra of the Conservatories of the City of Paris. In melody and song she excelled in recitals dedicated to Sibelius, Falla and Brahms.
At recitals in Cologne, she stood out for her interpretation of the roles of Manon (Manon Lescaut, Puccini), Elsa (Lohengrin, Wagner), Elisabeth (Tannhäuser, Wagner), Lisa (Pique Dame, Tchaikovsky), Ursula (Mathis der Maler, Hindemith), Rusalka (Rusalka, Dvořák), Countess (Le Nozze di Figaro, Mozart). She also performs regularly in recitals with pianists Anton Gerzenberg (1st prize for piano at the 2021 Géza Anda Competition), Jeongro Park and Antoine Chrétien.
