Jeanine De Bique

The Trinidad-born soprano Jeanine De Bique has received international attention in recent years for her critically acclaimed performances. Highlights of the 2022/23 season have included her return to the Paris Opéra as Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) and to the Theater an der Wien as Nitocris in Handel’s Belshazzar, and her house and role debut at the Zurich Opera House as Isabel in George Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence. In the USA her performances have included Mozart’s Requiem with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck. Following her engagement with the Salzburg Festival, she will end the season with Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri with the London Symphony Orchestra and Simon Rattle at the BBC Proms.
In the 2023/24 season she will make her debut at the Berlin State Opera as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), perform in the title role of Massenet’s Cendrillon at the Paris Opéra and appear as Micaëla (Carmen) at the Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.
Jeanine De Bique’s first solo CD Mirrors, with Concerto Köln, was released in 2021 by Berlin Classics and received excellent reviews. In 2022 the album won the OPUS KLASSIK for the best solo vocal recording, the Diapason d’or and the Edison Klassiek Award, and was celebrated in the music magazines Gramophone, Fono Forum and Opernwelt. Following concerts in Europe during 2022, Jeanine De Bique presented the programme of Mirrors in the USA during 2023 – most recently at the Carnegie Hall in New York.
Past highlights include important role and house debuts as Alcina (Paris Opéra), Poppea (L’incoronazione di Poppea) and Anaï in Rossini’s Moïse et Pharaon (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence), Agathe (Der Freischütz), Bess (Porgy and Bess) and La Folie in Rameau’s Platée (Theater an der Wien), Annio (La clemenza di Tito) at the Salzburg Festival in 2017 and Susanna (San Francisco Opera).
Conductors with whom Jeanine De Bique has collaborated include Gustavo Dudamel, Herbert Blomstedt, Lorin Maazel, Iván Fischer, William Christie, Christoph Eschenbach, Raphaël Pichon and Marin Alsop. She has performed with orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Budapest Festival Orchestra.