Eléonore Gagey
Mezzo-soprano
After learning the flute at a young age, Eléonore Gagey studied singing with Isabelle Guillaud and Sophie Fournier in Paris. She then completed her Bachelor with Hiroko Kawamichi at the prestigious Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne and will also soon complete her Master under the guidance of Brigitte Balleys. She is currently perfecting her technique with Malcolm Walker. In 2020 Eléonore has been invited to participate at the prestigious Académie de Royaumont.
She sang the role of the Dritte Dame (Die Zauberflöte, Mozart) with the "Opera e Mobile" company. More recently she performed the role of Mère Jeanne de l’Enfant Jésus in Dialogue des Carmélites, Poulenc, at the BCV Concert Hall in Lausanne and Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Mozart, under the direction of Leonardo Garcia Alarcon at the Hautes Ecoles de Musique de Lausanne and Geneva.
Upcoming roles
2020
March
Flora - La Traviata - Verdi
L'OpéRassemble, dir Frédéric Loisel, Paris
November
Dritte Dame, Die Zauberflöte, Mozart
Dir. Francis Bardot, Levallois, France
Previous roles
2019
Ruggiero - Il conto di Marsico - Balducci
Dir. Eugène Carmona, Switzerland
2018
Cherubino - Le nozze di Figaro - Mozart
Dir. Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Lausanne
2018
Mère Jeanne de l'Enfant Jesus - Dialogues of the Carmelites - Poulenc
BCV Concert Hall, Lausanne
Oratorio, concert & orchestral performances
2021
January: Alto solo, Missa di Palmeri, Paris
Nov 2019 : Alto solo, Cantata BWV 115, J.S. Bach, dir Facundo Agudin, Switzerland
July 2019: Alto solo, Cantata "Tilge Hochster", J.S.Bach, dir. Facundo Agudin, Switzerland
May 2019: Alto solo, Cantata BWV 66, J.S. Bach, dir. Facundo Agudin, Switzerland
May 2019 : Recital voice-piano with Martin Jollet, Pully Festival, Switzerland
April 2019 : Recital voice - piano with David Jackson, Festival Lyrique de Belle-Ile en Mer, France
April 2019: Alto solo, A Midsummer Night's Dream, F. Mendelssohn, dir. Joshua Weilerstein with OCL, Switzerland
April 2019 : Alto solo, St John’s Passion, H. Schutz, dir. Nicolas Reymond, Suisse
March 2019: Alto solo, St Marc’s Passion, J.S.Bach, dir. Facundo Agudin, Switzerland
February 2019: Alto solo, C. Monteverdi and C. Gesualdo motets, dir. Nicolas Reymond, Switzerland
January 2019: Alto solo, The Messiah, G.F. Handel, dir. Renaud Bouvier, Lausanne Cathedral, Switzerland
January 2019: Alto solo, Cantata BWV 171, J.S. Bach, dir. Facundo Agundin, Switzerland
December 2018: Alto solo, Sombra, E. Canat de Chizy, dir. Luca Antignani, Lausanne
December 2018: Alto solo, Missa Assumpta est Maria, M-A.Charpentier, dir. Facundo Agundin, Switzerland
June 2018: Alto solo, Cantata "Tilge Hochster", J.S.Bach, dir. Facundo Agudin, Switzerland
March 2018: Alto solo, Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, W.A. Mozart / Missa in Angustiis, J.Haydn, dir F. Agudin, Switzerland
November 2017: Alto solo, Israël in Egypt, G.F. Handel, dir. Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Lausanne