Anaïk Morel was born in Lyon (France). She completed her musical studies at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Lyon with Francoise Pollet and graduated top of the class. In 2004, she was awarded the Premier Prix at the Pierre Bernac Competition in St Jean de Luz, and in 2006, the Prix du Public and the Second Prix at the International Competition for Chamber Music in Lyon where she distinguished herself as a passionate interpret of french songs and lieder. In 2011 she was awarded the fourth Prize at the prestigious Concours Reine Elisabeth in Brussels.

In 2006 she joined the Opera Studio of the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich where she stayed for 2 years. From 2008 through 2010 she was a member of the Ensemble of the Bayerische Staatsoper where she performed Carmen (Mercedes), Nabucco (Fenena), Falstaff (Meg Page), Hänsel und Gretel (Hänsel), Dialogues des Carmélites (Soeur Mathilde), Palestrina (Silla) and Die schweigsame Frau (Carlotta).

Meanwhile she has performed at the Bayerische Staatsoper (Die Tragödie des Teufels by Peter Eöstvös, Federica in Luisa Miller), at the Staatsoper Berlin as well as at the Teatro alla Scala (Die Walküre), at the Opéra national de Lorraine (Lazuli in Chabrier’s L’Etoile and Boulotte in Offenbach’s Barbe-Bleue), at the Opéra de Lyon and at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari (Mère Marie in Dialogues des Carmélites), at the Opéra de Paris (Siebel in Faust), at the Staatstheater Saarbrücken and at the Staatsoper Stuttgart (Marguerite in La Damnation de Faust) as well as at the Salzburg Festival (World Premiere of Charlotte Salomon by Marc-André Dalbavie).

In the last few years she has made her successful debut as Carmen at the Staatsoper Stuttgart, a role she has also successfully performed at the Zurich Opera, at the Montpellier Opera, et the Oper Köln and for her debut at the Royal Opera House London. She has also performed Preziosilla (La Forza del destino) at the Theater Basel, Fenena (Nabucco) at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Charlotte (Werther) at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, at the Opéra du Rhin, at the Zurich Opera and in Nice, Dido (Dido and Aeneas) at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Sesto (La Clemenza di Tito) at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Komponist (Ariadne auf Naxos) at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse and at the Staatsoper Hamburg, Jocaste (Oedipe by Enescu) at the Salzburg Festival, Mère Marie (Dialogues des Carmélites) and Pénélope by Fauré at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) in Hannover, Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel) in Strasbourg, La Nourrice (Ariane et Barbe Bleue) in Lyon and in Nancy and Lancelot in Saint-Etienne.

Anaïk Morel appears regularly in concert and recital. She has performed with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, the Orchestre de Picardie, the Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy, the Orchestra of Angers Nantes Opéra, the Orchestre national de Lyon, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Les Siècles, Insula Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, Musique des Lumières, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.

She has collaborated with conductors such as Nicolas André, Daniel Barenboim, Sylvain Cambreling, Paolo Carignani, Laurence Equilbey, Dan Ettinger, Alan Gilbert, Julia Jones, Kent Nagano, Hervé Niquet, Kazushi Ono, Kirill Petrenko, Vassili Petrenko, François-Xavier Roth, Sébastien Rouland, Marc Soustrot, Lorenzo Viotti and stage directors such as Luc Bondy, Guy Cassiers, Michel Fau, Claus Guth, Barry Kosky, Vincent Huguet, Tatjana Gürbaca, Iannis Kokkos, Jean-François Sivadier, Dmitri Tcherniakov.

Anaïk Morel has recorded melodies by Charles Koechlin (CD available on Timpani records, 2015).

Among her recent and future projects: Matsukaze by Toshio Hosokawa at the Bayerische Statsoper in Munich, Tristan und Isolde in Toulouse, Armide by Gluck at the Opéra Comique, Lohengrin in Strasbourg, Dialogues des Carmélites in Nancy and, in concert, Mahler’s Symphony No.3 with the Orchestre National de Lyon, Nuits d’été with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, , Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 with the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Les Chants d’Auvergne in Saint-Etienne, on tour with the Orchestre National d’Ile de France and I Giardini.

October 2022

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