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Biography
Ms Carole Bertho, Ph.D., has been recognized for her beautiful intense singing since she was a student at the Paris Music Conservatory and in the Music National Conservatory in Montpellier, France.
She made her operatic debut with the Montpellier Opera under the direction of Vladimir Kojoukhrov. She has performed numerous orchestra concerts in Europe, Japan, Canada and United States with the Minsk Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Michel Cardon, with the Orchestra du Capitol de Toulouse directed by Michel Plasson, with the Ensemble India Galante directed by Vincent de Meester, with the Adelphi Symphony Orchestra (Long Island, New York) directed by Christopher Lyndon-Gee, and with the West Coast Symphony Orchestra (Vancouver) directed by Bujar Llapaj.
Ms. Bertho now lives in Vancouver, Canada and is both a Canadian and French citizen. Recently she worked in Italy with Bruno Nicoli, Barbara Frittoli, Dale Fundling, and Michael Paul.
Opera Repertoire
ROLE
COMPOSER
COMPANY
Santuzza (Cavalleria Rusticana)
Mascagni
Premiere Opera Vocal Arts Institute, Italy
Third Maid (Elektra)
Strauss
Heroic Opera, Vancouver
Electra (Idomeneo), excerpt
Mozart
New York Opera Summer Scenes
Zerlina (Don Giovanni)
Mozart
National Music Conservatory of Paris
Despina (Cosi fan tutte), excerpt
Mozart
National Music Conservatory of Paris
Rosaura (La vedova scaltra)
Wolf-Ferrari
Opera of Montpellier Young Artist Program
Toinette (Toinon et Toinette)
Gossec
Opera of Montpellier Young Artist Program
Angelique (George Dandin)
Lully
Opera of Montpellier Young Artist Program
Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro)
Mozart
Company lyrique of Roanne (Lyon, France)
Papagena (Die Zauberflöte)
Mozart
Company lyrique of Roanne (Lyon, France)
Taumännchen (Hänsel und Gretel)
Humperdinck
Company lyrique of Roanne (Lyon, France)
Concert & Oratorio Repertoire – soloist
Nuit d’été, excerpt
Berlioz
West Coast Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver
Poème pour Mi
Messiaen
Adelphi Symphony Orchestra, New York
War Requiem
Britten
Orpheus Center, France
Mary (Jeanne au bûcher)
Honegger
Orpheus Center, France
Vagaus (Juditha Triumphans)
Vivaldi
Opera of Montpellier Young Artist Program
Various music of Lili Boulanger
Boulanger
Gargenville, House of Nadia Boulanger, Paris
Sabbat Mater
Caldara
Indes Galantes Orchestra, Avignon, France
La courte paille, song cycle
Poulenc
Music Conservatory of Montpellier
Concert & Oratorio Repertoire – chorister
Chansons Loufoques
Lejeune
Orchestra of Radio France, Paris
(world premiere)
Requiem
Berlioz
Orchestra of Toulouse
Requiem
Mozart
Minsk Symphony Orchestra
Requiem
Faure
Triade ensemble
Other skills and interests
- Twelve years piano study
- Advanced degree in musical analysis
- Special interest in promoting the works of women composers
Publications
- Les femmes Grand Prix de Rome de composition musicale, [sole author], Paris, L’Harmattan, 2019, 292 pp.
- Lili Boulanger, compositrice du XX siècle, [sole author], Paris, Le Jardin d’Essai, 2009, 221 pp.
- Compositeurs reconnus et non reconnus, collectif d’auteurs, « Compositrices françaises entre 1890 et 1940 : Ces vies effacées et oubliées par l’Histoire », Paris UMR IReMus, BNF-CNRS-Université Paris-Sorbonne, to be published in 2019.
- Commémorations nationales 2013, collectif d’auteurs, édité par Le ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, chapitre 22 p.272 « Lili Boulanger, compositrice française », Paris, Archives de France, 2013, 316 pp.
- Le concours du prix de Rome de musique (1803-1968), collectif d’auteurs, chapitre 2, p. 377-390 « Faust et Hélène, la cantate lauréate », Lyon, Symétrie, 2011, 904 pp.
- L’effervescence artistique autour des ballets suédois, in Jan-Fev 2009, Paris: L’Éducation Musicale
- Lynda Bouchard, in Sep-Nov 2009, Paris: L’Éducation Musicale
- Lili Boulanger, femme moderne, in Sep-Oct 2008, Paris: L’Éducation Musicale