CLARA FRÉJACQUES

After obtaining a cello diploma from the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris and a Master's degree in Theatre Studies from the Université Paris III Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Clara Fréjacques began singing in Paris in 2013. From 2018, she went on to study with Carola Guber at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig.
As a coloratura mezzo-soprano, she has already performed in numerous concerts and recitals in France and other European countries. She has been a member of the Académie du Chœur de l'Orchestre de Paris and has had the opportunity to sing as a soloist at the Philharmonie de Paris under renowned conductors such as Daniel Harding. In 2018, she won the Rotary Club Rossini Competition in Paris and in 2019 the Mozart-Duschek Competition in Prague.
Clara Fréjacques is a versatile singer. Her musical spectrum ranges from opera to melody and lieder with a strong taste for contemporary music and experimental musical productions between theatre, singing and performance.
In 2020, she took part in the film production Offenbach-Report at the Opéra National de Lorraine, playing the role of mezzo-solo after making her Paris debut as Stéphano in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette.
Alongside her concert activity and chamber music recitals, mainly in Leipzig, Paris and Brittany, she made her German debut at the Kiel Theatre in 2021 in the production, Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer. She subsequently returned to Kiel for productions of Bizet's Carmen, Mozart's The Magic Flute and Bernstein's Candide.
In 2022 and 2023, she also worked at the Hagen Opera in Wagner's Parsifal and Offenbach's La Belle-Hélène, and at the Leipzig Opera in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel and Donizetti's L'Élixir d'amour.
Also in Leipzig, she had the opportunity to take part in Gerd Kühr's contemporary creation Paradiese in July 2021, and in June 2023 performed Toshio Hosokawa's The Raven for mezzo-solo based on the poem by Edgar Allan Poe.
Since the start of the 2023-2024 season, she has been a permanent member of the Kiel Opera company, where she will take part in productions of The Magic Flute, West Side Story, Falstaff, La Cenerentola, The Wizard of Oz and a contemporary creation based on Thomas Mann's masterpiece, The Buddenbrooks.
 

Photo: Olivier Clertant