The French soprano Suzanne Jerosme has explored a broad repertoire, performing varied roles such as Poppea in L'incoronazione di Poppea, Blanche de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Manon in Massenet's eponymous opera, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Bellezza in Haendel's Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, the title role in La Calisto, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi or Despina in Così fan tutte. She has also portrayed Bellezza in Haendel's Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, the title role in La Calisto, Helena in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Contessa di Folleville in Il Viaggio a Reims…
New Album
At a time when women had little space in musical creation, composers Camilla de Rossi and Maria Margherita Grimani wrote astonishing works, full of emotion and virtuosity. Preserved for centuries in the archives of the Austrian National Library, their music is brought back to life today through the luminous voice of Suzanne Jerosme and the wonderful Il Gusto Barocco conducted by Jörg Halubek.
The album brings together some of the most beautiful pages of these composers alongside arias by Alessandro Scarlatti, a great master of the Italian oratorio. Together, they paint a rich, sensitive, and captivating portrait of Baroque Vienna.
Athalia, Handel
“Suzanne Jerosme portrayed an Athalia who was both regal and vulnerable, shaped with full awareness of the relationship between word and sound. Even in concert form, her stage presence was magnetic: a voice that was soft yet penetrating, impeccable diction, and a rare sense of theatre. In the famous fury aria “My Vengeance awakes me,” she impressed with her technical control and clarity of intent: the coloratura passages were agile but always at the service of the drama, never mere displays of virtuosity for their own sake. In the more introspective moments, her tone became velvety, her legato flowed effortlessly, and every linguistic inflection was crafted with musical intelligence and sensitivity to the meaning of the text.”
Semele, Handel
“And then there is Suzanne Jerosme, who returns to Bologna and takes it all for herself.
Semele is a role that demands everything and the opposite of everything: the languid abandonment of «O sleep, why dost thou leave me», the dizzying vanity of «Myself I shall adore» and the stubborn fury of «No, no, I’ll take no less».
Jerosme moves through the most acrobatic coloraturas with the ease of a tightrope walker, without ever losing the thread of the character.
Her Semele is not a silly girl blinded by ambition, but a young woman who simply wants everything, immediately, and wants it with such grace that it is impossible not to be on her side, even knowing how it will end. The audience understood this and told her so, for a long time.”
Oltrecultura
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Carlo il Calvo, Porpora
Armonia Atenea, George Petrou
Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival
2026/2027
Semele, Handel
Alta nubes illustrata, Hasse
Arte dei Suonatori
MarcinŚwiątkiewicz Musical direction
Gdansk
Ocultar el arte con el arte mismo
El Gran Teatro del Mundo
Julio Caballero Musical direction
Sevilla
Henrico Leone, Agostino Steffani
Il Gusto Barocco
Jörg Halubek Musical direction
Stuttgart
Israel in Egypt, Handel
Le Concert Spirituel
Hervé Niquet Musical direction
Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
Handel’s Journey to Jazz
Rolf Zielke Musical direction
Karlsruhe, Internationale Händel-Festspiele
Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, Handel
Le Banquet Céleste
Opéra de Rennes
Polifemo, Porpora
Pictures
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Marie-Luise Manthei
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Julie Reggiani
Marie-Luise Manthei
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