biographie anglaise de Vanessa Le Charlès

After theater and singing studies at the Music Academies in Cholet and Angers, Vanessa Le Charlès joined the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMD) where she graduated summa cum laude in 2006. She studied in particular with Gerda Hartman and also worked with Jeff Cohen, Susan Manoff, Olivier Reboul and Nicolau De Figueiredo for the Baroque repertoire.

While a student, Vanessa received awards in various competitions thanks to the quality of her performance; including the Plácido Domingo World Opera Contest in 2006. The orchestra conductor Mélanie Thiébaut gave Vanessa her first acting role in Switzerland as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni. They later worked together again at the Limoges Opera House for performances of Mozart's Requiem, Pergolese's Stabat Mater and Purcell's King Arthur. Meanwhile, Vanessa Le Charlès also performed as prima donna Eleonora in Salieri's opera Prima La Musica E Poi Le Parole under the direction of Laurence Equilbey.

Crossing paths with Mireille Laroche at La Péniche Opéra, Paris, allowed Vanessa to foster her acting skills, especially in disguised roles such as Poucet in La Forêt Bleue, by Aubert, Mazet in La Colombe, by Gounod or Elie in La Machine à Rire, by Tuigi which she performed with the National Orchestra of Ile-de-France at the Salle Pleyel, Paris, and on tour.

Recently, Vanessa played :

- Malwina in Marschner's Der Vampyr at the Rennes Opera House and in Szeged, Hungary (broadcasted live on the MezzoTV channel);

- Donna Elvira at the Châtelet Theater, Paris, during La Leçon d'Opéra with Jean-François Zygel;

- Moira (an old suicidal diva) in Vous Qui Savez… written by Thierry Escaich and based upon works of Mozart with the Opera Studio of Lyon conducted by Jean-Paul Fouchécourt;

- Alice in Le Comte Ory at the Lyon Opera House;

- The handmaid of Lady Macbeth at the Marseille Opera House, in June 2016.

In concert, Vanessa Le Charlès staged under the baroque direction of Nicolau De Figueiredo in the works of composers such as Charpentier, Carissimi, Vivaldi and Haydn at the Oratory of the Louvre or in Switzerland as Dido in Purcell's Dido And Aeneas, accompanied by period instruments.

Her voice is particularly suited to the Berlioz repertoire. For instance, she performed :

- Several extracts of the Scènes Lyriques and the Nuits d'Eté conducted by Benjamin Pionnier at the National Opera of Lorraine, Nancy;

- The Nuits d'Eté with the Symphony Orchestra of Orléans conducted by Jean-Jacques Kantorow;

- Mort de Cléopâtre with the National Orchestra of Pays de Loire conducted by Laurence Equilbey (Radio-France recording).

Her voice also leads her to approach the Wagnerian repertoire. She was selected for the International Singing Competitions for Wagner Voices in Bayreuth on 2012 and is the co-author of the work “Découvrir Wagner”, Editions Ellipses, published in 2013 for the bicentenary of the birth of the composer.

Vanessa Le Charlès also enjoys recitals and regularly performs in Lieder of Berg, Strauss, Mahler or Aubert's melodies, Liszt and Granados at the Folles Journées de Nantes, and at the Davos Festival young artists in concert, Switzerland, in duets with the guitarist Emmanuel Rossfelder and the pianist Wilhem Latchoumia.

End of 2015, Jean-Louis Pichon offered Vanessa her first role as Tosca at the Saint-Etienne Opera House in a stage production of Louis Désiré, "a role taking with the most striking play and theatrical performance with bluffing accuracy". She then performed as the new prioress in Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites in 2017.

In 2018, she will appear in Brünnhilde, Siegfried et qui deviendra le seigneur de l'anneau based upon the Richard Wagner's Opéra.