The soprano Sabine Devieilhe comes from Normandy, and studied the cello and musicology before beginning her singing training at the Paris Conservatoire. Her repertory stretches from early music to contemporary works. Shortly after graduating, she was invited to appear at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence as Serpetta (La finta giardiniera) and in Lyon as the Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte). Since then, she has sung at numerous leading opera houses, among them the Paris Opéra, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Opéra Comique, La Monnaie in Brussels, the Zurich Opera House, the Vienna State Opera, La Scala, Milan, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the Bavarian State Opera.
Highlights of 2024/25 included Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier) at La Scala, Milan, Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande) at the Paris Opéra and Sophie and Zdenka (Arabella) at the Vienna State Opera. She has also performed with I Giardini at Kissinger Sommer and at the Festival Pulsations in Bordeaux, and appeared at numerous major music venues throughout Europe performing her new song-recital programme with Mathieu Pordoy.
Her recent triumphs have included Morgana (Alcina), Ophélie (Hamlet), the title role of Délibes’ Lakmé, Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare), Ilia (Idomeneo), Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias and, in 2023, Sœur Constance (Dialogues des Carmélites) in her debut at the Metropolitan Opera.
In the 2025/26 season, her engagements will include Dalinda in Handel’s Ariodante and Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Paris Opéra, the title role of the French version of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor at the Opéra Comique and a European tour with Jakub Józef Orliński and the ensemble il Pomo d’Oro in Handel’s Giulio Cesare.
She made her Glyndebourne Festival debut in 2016 and in 2018 made her debut at the Salzburg Festival, where she returned in 2023 as Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro).
On the concert platform she has performed with orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, under renowned conductors such as Maxim Emelyanychev, Pablo Heras-Casado, Vladimir Jurowski, Klaus Mäkelä, Simon Rattle and Lorenzo Viotti. In the 2025/26 season, she will give recitals in Utrecht, at London’s Wigmore Hall, the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, the Philharmonie Luxembourg, and in Compiègne, Lyon, Bordeaux and Strasbourg.
Since 2012, Sabine Devieilhe has been an exclusive artist with Erato / Warner Classics. Her discography includes the albums Mozart & The Weber Sisters and Bach — Handel with Pygmalion under Raphaël Pichon, Mirages with Les Siècles, Chanson d’amour with Alexandre Tharaud and, in 2024, Mozart & Strauss: Lieder with Mathieu Pordoy. A recording of Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol, in which she sings the title role with Les Siècles under François-Xavier Roth, was released in February 2025.
