Isabelle Cals

Isabelle Cals has sung in many of Europe’s major opera houses and concert halls, among them l’Opéra National de Paris, La Scala, Salzburg Festival, Amsterdam Opera, the Barbican Center, Le Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, La Monnaie de Bruxelles, Les Chorégies d’Orange, Il Teatro Regio di Torino, Le Grand Théâtre de Geneve, Le Châtelet.
Among the conductors with whom she has appeared are Sir Colin Davis, Armin Jordan, Antonio Pappano, Valery Ghergiev, Lawrence Foster, John Nelson, James Conlon, Michel Plasson, Jesus Lopez-Cobos.
She began her career as a mezzo-soprano but sang mostly Zwischenfach repertoire from the beginning : among other roles Giulietta (Les Contes d'Hoffmann), Béatrice (Béatrice et Benedict), Ascanio (Benvenuto Cellini), Marguerite (La Damnation de Faust), Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande), Hélene (La Belle Hélene), Concepcion (L’Heure espagnole).
Recent engagements include Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) at the Festival de Radio France Montpellier, La Voix humaine under François-Xavier Roth, Tatiana (Eugene Oneguine) at  the Opéra de Vichy, Madame Lidoine (Dialogues des Carmélites) at the Opéra de Massy, the Governess (The Turn of the screw) at the Opéra de Tours and with the Orchestre de Basse-Normandie, Micaela (Carmen) in Hong Kong, La Chute de Fukuyama (world creation) in Paris (salle Pleyel), Harawi by Messiaen at the Messiaen Festival de La Meije and in Paris (Athénée), la Gouvernante (Le Tour d’écrou) at the Opéra de Tours, Alice Ford (Falstaff) at the Opéra de Massy, at the Opéra de Tours and at the Gulbenkian in Lisboa.
Her extensive symphonic repertoire includes among other pieces Berlioz’ les Nuits d’été and la Mort de Cléopâtre, Ravel’s Shéhérazade, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and Ah perfido, Poulenc’s Gloria, Mozart’s Requiem, Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au bucher.