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The Swiss soprano, Laurence Guillod, obtained her Master of Music degree as a soloist from the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne, with the special Max. Jost prize. She was then part of the Theater Basel’s Opera Studio during the 2010-2011 season; during those years, she performed important roles, such as die Peri in Robert Schumann’s oratory Das Paradies und die Peri, Despina in W.A. Mozart's Così fan tutte, Donna Elvira in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni, Siébel in Charles Gounod’s Faust, Micaelaand Frasquita in Georges Bizet’s Carmen, Serpina in Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona, as well as the title role in Wolf-Ferrari’s Il Segreto di Susanna. She is grant holder from the Colette Mosetti Foundation and is awarded with the Study’s Prize of the Pourcent culturel Migros. She won in February 2014 the Claudio Abbado and 2nd Prize in the Umberto Giordano Competition in South Italy. During her Opera Studio’s year, she performed the roles of: Blumenmädchen in Wagner’s Parsifal and Barbarina in W.A. Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro.
Laurence Guillod's performances there were well appreciated and, after her Opera Studio season, she was frequently invited as a guest, to sing the first Nymphe in Dvorák’s Rusalka and Dalinda in George Frideric Handel's Ariodante She made her debut at Lausanne’s opera in 2011 in the role of Wanda in Offenbach’s La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein. She then performed successfully the role of la Prima Donna in Donizetti’s Viva la Mamma, Ilia in W.A. Mozart's Idomeneo, Bubikopf in Ullman’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis and recentely sang Marie de Poncourlay in Les Mousquetaires au Couvent by Louis Varney. She was recently heard in the role of Sandra in I duo baroni di Rocc’azzura by Cimarosa with the Geneva’s Chamber Opera. She sings frequently in concerts and oratorios; she was soloist for Berlioz’s Nuits d’été, for the W.A. Mozart’s Requiem in the Victoria Hall of Geneva. In the 2014-2015 season, she made her debut in Verdi’s La Traviata in Argentina with the orchestra Sinfonica Patagonia, as well as in the role of Adina in Donizettti’s L’elisir d’amore. |
