
BIO
"Manon Chauvin proves to be in a state of grace by her dramatic intensity, the beauty of her voice and her extraordinary ductility in a classical discipline".
- José María Marco (Ópera Actual, 2021)
French soprano, Manon Chauvin, studied singing at the Conservatorio Nacional of Mexico City and the Escuela Superior de Canto in Madrid, where she currently lives.
In 2014 she won second prize in the Premio Jóven-Bach competition. And in 2017, she is chosen to participate in Jordi Savall’s young artist program “La Jove Capella Reial de Catalunya” which has taken her to specialize her career in the field of early music collaborating with ensembles such as La Capella Reial de Catalunya, La Cetra Barockorchester & Vokalensemble Basel, Musica Ficta, Opera Omnia, Trondheim Barokk, Opera Omnia, Concerto 1700, La Guirlande, amongst others, participating I many music festivals in Europe, latin America and Asia.
As a soloist, she has performed the world premiere of the contemporary operas Un Tiempo Enorme (2020) and La muerte y el industrial (2023) by Jorge Fernández Guerra, winner of the 2007 National Music Prize for composition. She has sung oratorios such as Fauré's Requiem, Vivaldi's Juditha Triumphans, Handel's Messiah, Boccherini's Stabat Mater, Bach's Messe in h-Moll and Johannes-passion. She has performed in Mozart's operas Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni as well as in Purcell's Dido & Aeneas, The fairy queen and The indian queen. She also played the role of Brújula in the baroque zarzuela Vendado es amor, no es ciego by J. de Nebra and Orfeo in Jasón, y la conquista del vellocino de Gaetano Brunetti, Laureta in Las amazonas de España de G. Facco.
Her discography includes Juditha Triumphans (2019) by A. Vivaldi (dir. Jordi Savall) and the Requiem by Tomás Luís de Victoria (2017) as well as Monteverdi sessions (2018), with Musica Ficta (dir. Raúl Mallavibarrena).
She also works on rediscovering spanish musical heritage recording Cristal apacible (2024) solo cantatas of Literes, Torres, Durón, with Camerata Antonio Soler (dir. Gustavo Sánchez), the Requiem (2019) by J. de Nebra with La Madrileña (dir. José Antonio Montaño), and also an album dedicated to Alonso Lobo, Lobo: sacred vocal music (2019) with the Coro Victoria (dir. Ana Fernández-Vega).