Jeanine De Bique comes from Trinidad and has swiftly established herself as one of the most remarkable sopranos of her generation. She enjoys equal success in Baroque and Classical repertory and in contemporary works.
Important engagements in the 2025/26 season will include the title role in Johanna Wehner’s new production of Alcina under Stefano Montanari at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) and Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito) at the Zurich Opera House. In collaboration with the B’Rock Orchestra she will present her new programme Venus on a European tour, thus continuing the exploration of Baroque heroines to which she dedicated her award-winning first album Miroirs. Her other concert engagements will include Mozart’s Requiem with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck and a televised Christmas concert with the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie. She will also make her debut at London’s Wigmore Hall in Handel’s Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno with La Nuova Musica under David Bates.
Thanks to her musical versatility Jeanine De Bique has made a series of major role debuts in recent seasons, including Violetta (La traviata) at the Grand Théâtre de Genève and at the Berlin State Opera, the title role of Massenet’s Cendrillon at the Paris Opéra, Micaëla (Carmen) at the Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Anaï in Rossini’s Moïse et Pharaon at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Agathe (Der Freischütz) at the Berlin Konzerthaus and Helena in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. She also appeared in the world premiere of Micha Hamel’s Caruso a Cuba at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam. She has received unanimous acclaim for her interpretations of Baroque operatic roles, including Alcina at the Paris Opéra, Rodelinda at the Opéra de Lille, La Folie (Platée) at the Theater an der Wien and the Teatre del Liceu and Poppea (L’incoronazione di Poppea) at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. Jeanine De Bique has also had great success in Mozart roles, and has sung Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) at the Berlin State Opera and the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg, Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Paris Opéra and the San Francisco Opera and Annio in Peter Sellars’s production of La clemenza di Tito under Teodor Currentzis at the 2017 Salzburg Festival and at the Dutch National Opera.
