Morgane Heyse

The German-French coloratura soprano Morgane Heyse grew up in a bilingual, music-loving family. Following several years of viola lessons, her passion for singing led her to study in Belgium: first at the Conservatoire Royal de Liège (where she graduated in singing and singing teaching), then, until 2017, as a member of the International Opera Academy in Ghent.

Her wide-ranging repertoire reaches from the Renaissance to contemporary music. In the 2021/22 season she was acclaimed as Gepopo in Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre at the Mecklenburg State Theatre in Schwerin and as the Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte) at the Braunschweig State Theatre. Her previous roles include Aspasia in Mozart’s Mitridate, Antigona in Handel’s Admeto, Pallade in Caldara’s La contesa de’ Numi, Orasia in Telemann’s Orpheus, Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel, Sivene in Gluck’s Le cinesi, First Spirit in Massenet’s Cendrillon and the Princess and Shepherdess in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges. In operetta, she has sung Ernestine (Monsieur Choufleuri restera chez lui) and Inès (Les Bavards) with the Brussels Operetta Theatre. In 2019 Morgane Heyse made her debut at the Vienna Volksoper in the role of the Maid in Thomas Adès’s Powder Her Face and appeared in the world premiere of Benjamin Attahir’s Le Silence des ombres at La Monnaie in Brussels.

Projects for the 2022/23 season include Mozart arias in the season-opening concert of the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, several roles for Mecklenburg State Theatre and a Handel programme at the Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdam.

Under the direction of her mentor Jean-Pierre Peuvion, Morgane Heyse has made a name for herself as an interpreter of contemporary music. She has performed works by Cage, Ligeti, Scelsi, Berio, Takemitsu, Pierre Bartholomée, Benoît Mernier and Baudouin de Jaer, and has also taken part in several world premieres. In oratorio, she has appeared as a soloist in Bach’s St John Passion, Handel’s Messiah, Gounod’s Messe solennelle, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Vivaldi’s Magnificat and Fauré’s Requiem.

Morgane Heyse has received several awards, including the award for Best Performer at the 2017 Armel Opera Festival. She has recorded an album of songs by Jean-Pierre Peuvion (Chansons Indigo), and can also be heard on CD in a live recording of Pascal Zavaro’s Manga-Café and as the Statue in Rameau’s Pygmalion with the Apotheosis Orchestra under Korneel Bernolet.