Capucine Daumas, Soprano
Discovered by the iconic Marilyn Horne who invited her at the Paris Opera Bastille and at The Carnegie Hall in New-York for the renowned program « The Song Continues », Capucine Daumas has then sung under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle for the role of Cat with the London Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ last opera “The Hogboon” at the Barbican Hall in London.
Lately, Capucine has been performing with conductors including Michel Plasson, Michael Schønwandt, David Reiland in venues such as Carnegie Hall in New-York, Wigmore Hall and Barbican Hall in London, Operas of Montpellier and Saint- Etienne in France, Theater Hof in Germany, the Mozarteum in Salzburg in Austria, where she has been praised by reviewers.
She was seen as the Soprano Solo of “Ein Sommernachtstraum” by Felix Mendelssohn led by Michael Schønwandt (Opera de Montpellier, France), as Soeur Constance in “Dialogues des Carmélites” by Francis Poulenc conducted by David Reiland (Opera de Saint Etienne, France) and conducted by Arn Goerke (Theater Hof, Germany); in a recital at the Colmar International Festival under the artistic direction of Michel Plasson; as Alcina in “Orlando Paladino” by Joseph Haydn conducted by Kai Röhrig in Salzburg (Austria).
In 2016, Marilyn Horne and The Carnegie Hall invited Capucine to take part in The Song Continues at Carnegie Hall in New-York with Sir Thomas Allen and Ken Noda (Metropolitan Opera) following the success she had at The Song Continues Paris Residency with Marilyn Horne and Martin Katz at Paris Opera Bastille in 2014.
Previously, she has been singing the roles of Ophelia and Juliet in "Shakespeare and Opera", Miss Wordsworth in “Albert Herring” and The Vowel O in “Journeying Boys” as well as lyrical performances from “La Fille du Régiment” (Marie), “Die Fledermaus” (Adele), “La Scala di Seta” (Giulia), “La Rondine” (Magda), “Così fan tutte” (Despina), “Lakmé” (Lakmé)…
Capucine is also a keen recitalist and oratorio singer. Previous engagements include, in England: recitals at the Barbican Hall, Wigmore Hall, City of London Festival, Song in the City, London Summer Music Festival; in France: at Musée Jacquemart-André, Grand Palais and Opera Garnier (for Gala events) in Paris, at Festival de Musique de Menton, Versailles Castle…
She was the Soprano solo in Handel’s "Israel in Egypt", in Requiem by Mozart, Brahms, Fauré and Rutter in venues such as St Martin-in the-Fields in London.
In 2015, she won the “Paul Hamburger Prize” adjudicated by Graham Johnson and in 2016 the audience prize at the Chartered Surveyor’s prize in London.
Capucine has participated in various masterclasses with renowned artists such as Sophie Koch, José Van Dam, Ileana Cotrubas, Lorraine Nubar, Dalton Baldwin, Pierre Vallet, Graham Johnson, Emmanuel Plasson, Dame Felicity Lott, Mark Shanahan, Roger Vignoles…
Born in a Franco-Italian artistic family, Capucine has been studying, from her earliest childhood, ballet, piano and drama in conservatoires in Paris while simultaneously acting and dancing in various films and plays.
She started studying voice with Jane Berbié then at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris with Caroline Dumas before joining the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, under the tutelage of Rudolf Piernay and Yvonne Kenny where she received a Bachelor with Honours in 2014 and a Masters with Distinction in 2016.
In Benoît Jacquot’s next movie, Capucine is the voice of the actress Valeria Golino who is playing an Opera singer.
Currently, Capucine is Despina in “Cosi fan tutte” at Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste (Italy) under the baton of Oleg Caetani, soon she will be the soprano solo of Beethoven 9th at Teatro Filarmonico di Verona, Sœur Constance in "Dialogues des Carmélites" at the New Opera of Singapore, Frasquita in “Carmen” by Georges Bizet, Gabrielle in “La Vie Parisienne” by Jacques Offenbach.