BIOGRAPHY

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A former violinist, French mezzo-soprano Anne-Lise Polchlopek studied singing with Claudine Le Coz and, at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon, in the class of Mireille Delunsch. She attended master classes with Ludovic Tézier, Harmut Höll, Philippe Cassard, Susan Manoff and William Christie. She won several competitions such as Gordes International Song Competition 2018, Association Jeunes Talents 2019 (piano & voice duet with Mao Hayakawa, 2019) and Royaumont Foundation (piano & voice duet with Nicolas Royez, 2020). She was a grant holder of the Société Générale Musical Patronage for the year 2020/2021.

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As a member of the Studio de l’Opéra de Lyon, Anne-Lise Polchlopek quickly made her stage debut and performed roles such as Prince Charmant in Massenet’s Cendrillon; Augustine Bremond, Doctor Grimaldi and the Countess of Pourtales in Isabelle Aboulker’s Les Enfants du Lévant, by the Opéra de Lyon, at the Théâtre de la Renaissance of Oullins; Amatre in Haendel’s Serse at the Beijing Music Festival, with Opera Fuoco; Zulma in Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri and Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, at the Opéra Clermont Auvergne; Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro, with Opera Fuoco; and Marie de l’Incarnation in Poulenc’s Les Dialogues des Carmélites, at the CNSM of Lyon.

 

Also at the Opéra de Lyon, she sang the roles of Chatte, Pâtre and Écureuil in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, as well Suzanne Martel in Offenbach’s Un Mari à la Porte. With the company Opera Fuoco, she performed The Old Lady in Bernstein’s Candide and Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro. At the Château de Versailles, she sang Sesto in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito and many recitals.

 

Anne-Lise Polchlopek participated in two recording projects during the 2021/22 season: the “Paul Arma, a retrospective” (Hortus), by invitation of the pianist Thomas Taquet, as well in the recording of a cd with the Orsay-Royaumont Academy (B-Records), which she is a laureate with the pianist Nicolas Royez.

 

Highlights of Anne-Lise Polchlopek’s 2023/24 season include the title role in Massenet’s Cendrillon, at the National Theatre of Taichung, Taiwan, staged by Laurent Pelly, and the title role in Soh & Lacroix’s The Carmen Case, at Opéra national de Bordeaux and Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg.

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In the 2024/25 season, Anne-Lise sang the title role in Offenbach's La Belle Hélène, at the Opéra de Toulon; revivals of The Carmen Case at Opéra de Limoges and Opéra national de Bordeaux; the solo part in Händel’s The Messiah, at the Opéra de Saint-Étienne; and the roles of Glasa and Feklusa in Janaček’s Katia Kabanova, at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège. 

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Among her next engagements, she will sing Vlasta in Weinberg's Die Passagierin and A Kitchen Boy in Dvorak's Rusalka, at the Opéra national du Capitole de Toulouse.