biography
The French-German soprano Camille Schnoor was born 1986 in Nice. Praised for her “stupendous acting and powerful, fascinating singing” (FAZ), she won the Bavarian Sponsorship Award for Performing Arts 2020 as well as the International Competition Vokal Genial 2013. The major daily German newspaper Die Welt nominated her 2016 both as “Best Singer” and “Best Newcomer “.
During the season 25/26 Camille Schnoor will have her role debut as Heliane in Korngold’s masterpiece “Das Wunder der Heliane” at the Opéra National du Rhin, she will debut as Micaela (Carmen) at Opera Hong-Kong, and she will have her long awaited debut as Desdemona (Otello) at the Opernfestspiele Heidenheim. She will also sing the Foreign Princess (Rusalka) in Limoges, her first Brahms Requiem at the Opéra de Marseille, as well as Mozart‘s Requiem in Munich’s Herkulessaal.
Highlights from past seasons have been a.o. her debut at the Bayreuther Festspiele under Pablo Heras-Casado (Parsifal), debuts at the Opéra National de Bordeaux and at the Opéra comique in Paris with the World Premiere of Les Sentinelles, streamed on Arte Concert, her debut at the Opéra de Lille as Rosalinde (die Fledermaus), her Wagner and Saint-Saens recital with the Orchestre Colonne at the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Foreign Princess (Rusalka) at the Opéra de Marseille, Hanna Glawari (The Merry Widow) at the Opéra de Nice, Ciò-Ciò-San (Madama Butterfly) in Limoges, Rouen and Vichy, Ariadne (Ariadne auf Naxos) in Limoges and at the Hungarian State Opera Budapest, Mimì (La Bohème) in Munich, Aachen and Klosterneuburg, Schumann's last Ballades under Laurence Equilbey at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, and her Marschallin debut (Der Rosenkavalier) in concert in Geneva.
“Camille Schnoor’s stunning Mimì gratified the ear and touched the soul.” Opera News
2019 she gave her debut as Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte)at the Bergen Opera in Norway as well as her house debut at the Opera national de Lorraine in the role of Hilda (Sigurd by Reyer). Her Ciò-Ciò-San debut 2018 (Madama Butterfly) at Opéra de Limoges and Opéra de Rouen Normandie was highly acclaimed by both the public and critics and the production was streamed several times on French TV.
From 2016 to 2023 Camille Schnoor has been a leading soloist at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich and sang there numerous main roles of her Fach, including Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Mimì (La Bohème), Tatyana (Eugene Onegin), Hanna Glawari (The Merry Widow), Antonia and Giulietta (The Tales of Hoffmann).
She has been working together with conductors Pablo Heras-Casado, Frédéric Chaslin, Christian Arming, Laurence Equilbey, Daniel Kawka, Erik Nielson and with directors Stefano Poda, Laurent Pelly, Joan Anton Rechi, Michel Fau and Josef E. Köpplinger.
Her first solo album “ Les Ames Naturelles “ was released 2022 by the label Klarthe. The Live recording of the Bayreuth Parsifal was released 2024 by Deutsche Grammophon on CD and Blu-ray.
Camille Schnoor completed her musical studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris (CNSM) 2007 as a concert pianist, before studying singing in Paris and Maastricht. She made her first singer steps on stage 2012-2013 as a sponsorship laureate at Theater Aachen, before joining the Ensemble 2014-2016 and performing there Luisa (Luisa Miller), Verdi’s Requiem, Marie in Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, Agathe (Der Freischütz) and Maria (West Side Story).