Artists
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Amel Brahim-Djelloul
Soprano
Soprano Amel Brahim-Djelloul continues to pursue a luminous and singular path, enriched by her dual cultural heritage.
A graduate of the CNSMD de Paris, she trained at William Christie’s “Jardin des Voix” and was nominated in 2007 in the “Révélation Lyrique” category at the Victoires de la Musique Classique. She quickly took on numerous operatic roles: Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro) at Angers-Nantes Opéra and the Opéra de Lausanne, Despina (Così fan tutte) at the Opéra de Nice, Servilia (La clemenza di Tito) at the Opéra de Paris and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, as well as La Princesse (L’Enfant et les Sortilèges), Ninette (L’Amour des Trois Oranges), and Suor Genovieffa (Suor Angelica) at the Opéra de Paris, the title role in Véronique by Messager at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Gabrielle (La Vie Parisienne) at Angers-Nantes Opéra, Nanetta (Falstaff) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Adina (L’Elisir d’Amore) and Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) at the Opéra d’Avignon, Andreloun (Mireille) at the Chorégies d’Orange, Hébé, Fatime, and Phani (Les Indes Galantes) at the Opéra National de Bordeaux and the Concertgebouw in Bruges, and Drusilla, Amore, and Valletto in various productions of L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Opéra de Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Staatsoper Berlin, Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Opéras de Lille and Dijon), to name just a few.
She is regularly invited by many orchestras (Orchestre National de France, National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, National Philharmonic of Ukraine, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Orchestre des Concerts Pasdeloup, Orchestre National de Cannes, Orchestre Symphonique National Algérien, Orchestre National d’Île-de-France, Orchestre Philharmonique du Maroc...) and ensembles (Les Arts Florissants, Le Poème Harmonique, Les Paladins, Il Caravaggio, 2E2M, Mezwej, Les Talens Lyriques, Quatuor Debussy…), and expands each season her range of personal projects, often bridging East and West: L’Orgue du Sultan (with L’Achéron and Sultan Veld), Les 1001 Lunes de la Princesse Boudour (with Aymeric Lecerf and Nicolas Jouve), Des chants et des rives with guitarist Thomas Keck, Populaires (with Nicolas Jouve), Canciones (with Ensemble C Barré), and her Mediterranean programs with Ensemble Amedyez.
Her discography includes numerous recordings, including more personal projects: Les Chemins qui montent (a tribute to Kabyle songs), recitals with pianists Anne Le Bozec (Les 1001 nuits) and Nicolas Jouve (Populaires), as well as a program of arabo-Andalusian heritage works (Amel chante la Méditerranée) arranged by her brother, violinist and musicologist Rachid Brahim-Djelloul, and performed with Ensemble Amedyez.
Amel Brahim-Djelloul is artistic director of the association Nour, through which she develops a variety of projects ranging from education to the production of new performances and recordings.
She has been represented by RSBA since 2010.
Camille Delaforge
Conductor
Harpsichordist, vocal coach and conductor, passionate about voice and chamber music, Camille Delaforge founded the ensemble Il Caravaggio with mezzo soprano Anna Reinhold, with whom she recently performed at the Sablé-sur-Sarthe festival, the Oude Musiek festival in Utrecht, the Embaroquement Immédiat festival, the Sinfonia festival in Périgord, the Agapé festival (Geneva and Reims), and on tour in South Korea; the ensemble will also have the pleasure of starting an artistic residency at the Sablé-sur-Sarthe festival, with the support of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.
She has been Vincent Dumestre's artistic assistant to the Poème Harmonique since last season, and was assistant conductor of this same ensemble on two lyrical productions during the 2019/2020 season: Sebastián Durón's Coronis at the Opéra de Caen and Lully's Cadmus et Hermione at the Opéra Royal de Versailles.
She has also been invited to work with numerous orchestras, including the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg and the Orchestre de Cannes, when they play the Baroque repertoire.
Camille Delaforge regularly works as a conductor and continuo player with various ensembles such as Les Ambassadeurs, Le Concert de la Loge, the Ensemble Correspondances, Orfeo 55, with which she performs, among others stages, at the Chapelle Royale de Versailles, at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, at the Zariadye Hall in Moscow, the Philipszaal in The Hague, the Wigmore Hall in London, the Salzburger Festspiele, the Victoria Hall in Geneva, with programs such as Couperin's Les leçons de Ténèbres as well as "Heroes from the shadows", "Prima donna" and "Quella fiamma", recorded by Erato and Warner Music; as a conductor, she participated in the production of Grétry's Raoul de Barbe-Bleue, at the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.
Furthermore, she forms a duo with the French bass-baritone Guilhem Worms, with whom she has developed several chamber music programs on harpsichord and fortepiano (Mozartian repertoire on fortepiano and four hands alongside the pianist Karolos Zouganelis, French repertoire from different periods on harpsichord and voice).
Several recordings will be released this season 2020/2021, including two for the Versailles Spectacles label: Lully's Cadmus et Hermione with the Poème Harmonique (as assistant conductor and continuo player) then Miroirs, with his Ensemble Il Caravaggio, around Dandrieu's trio sonatas.
Concerned about developing socio-cultural exchanges through music teaching, she organises humanitarian projects. In this context she taught the most underprivileged children in Ecuador during the summer of 2015. This resulted in a partnership between the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris and the University of Guayaquil (Ecuador).
A graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, she studied harpsichord and basso continuo with Blandine Verlet, before joining the class of Olivier Baumont and Blandine Rannou at the CNSMDP. Camille Delaforge also holds a Teaching Degree for harpsichord.
Ensemble Il Caravaggio
Dirigé par la claveciniste Camille Delaforge, en collaboration avec la chanteuse Anna Reinhold, IL CARAVAGGIO est un nouvel acteur du paysage musical baroque français. À travers une attention toute particulière accordée à l’interprétation de répertoires français et italiens originaux et principalement dédiés à la musique vocale, Il Caravaggio a déjà créé plusieurs programmes sous cette ligne directrice, donné dans de nombreux festivals tels Festival de Sablé-sur-Sarthe, Oude Musiek d’Utrecht, Festival Agapé, Embaroquement Immédiat, Festival de Musique Baroque du Jura, Sinfonia en Périgord, Festival d’Amilly, Les Concerts d’été à Genève, Les Mercredis Musicaux de l’Opéra de Lille, Théâtre de Charleville- Mézières.
L’ensemble Il Caravaggio est en résidence à Sablé pour l’édition 2020 du Festival de Sablé dans le cadre du dispositif de « résidences croisées » mis en place sur l’ensemble du territoire français par le Centre de musique baroque de Versailles. Grâce au soutien de ces deux structures, deux programmes originaux (dont une oeuvre lyrique) autour de femmes compositrices verront le jour en 2020 et 2021. Par ailleurs, le premier disque de l’ensemble sortira au Printemps 2020 sous le label Versailles Spectacles, tandis que l’enregistrement de leur second disque se déroulera en juillet 2020.
Anna Reinhold
Mezzo-Soprano
After studying at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et danse de Paris and the University of Vienna, Anna Reinhold made her stage debut under the direction of William Christie as part of his academy Le Jardin des Voix; this led to numerous engagements with Les Arts Florissants, both in Europe and America.
She now collaborates regularly with many conductors and ensembles: Leonardo García Alarcón (Cappella Mediterranea), Raphaël Pichon (Pygmalion), Laurence Equilbey (Accentus and Insula Orchestra), Jonathan Cohen (Balearic Islands Symphony Orchestra, ensemble Arcangelo and Orchestre d’Auvergne), Vincent Dumestre (Poème Harmonique), Simon-Pierre Bestion (La Tempête), Ryan Brown (Opéra Lafayette), John Butt (Orchestre d’Edinburgh), Josh van Veldhoven (Bachvereniging), Jonathan Cohen (Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest and Orchestre d’Auvergne), Andrea Marcon (La Cetra Barockorchester Basel), Giovanni Antonini (Il Giardino Armonico), Stephan Macleod (Gli Angeli Genève)…
In opera, this season she performs Proserpina and Speranza (L’Orfeo) at the Opéra d’Avignon under the direction of Jordi Savall; she has previously sung the title role in L’Italiana in Algeri (Rossini) and Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande by Debussy) at the Atelier lyrique de Tourcoing, L’Italiana in Algeri at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Cybèle (Atys by Lully) at the Opéra Royal de Versailles and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Menesto (Elena by Cavalli) at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Pandora (El Prometeo by Draghi) at the Opéra de Dijon, the Kitchen Boy (Rusalka) at the Opéra de Massy, Flamel (Fantasio), Adèle and Al Cirbec (Le Mystère de l’écureuil bleu by Marc-Olivier Dupin) at the Opéra Comique, and the Second Chambermaid (Le Nain by Zemlinsky) at the Théâtre de Caen.
Highly regarded for her interpretations of concert and chamber music repertoire, Anna Reinhold sings this season El amor brujo by De Falla with the Orchestre de Caen; she is a regular guest at festivals such as Les Musicales de Colmar (Pierrot Lunaire by Schönberg, Wesendonck Lieder by Wagner, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen by Mahler...), the Kaposvár Festival and the Budapest Festival Academy in Hungary, the Cork Festival in Ireland; she recently performed Britten’s cantata Phaedra with the Orchestre régional de Normandie and appears in duo with guitarist and lutenist Quito Gato, in both baroque (Lagrime mie) and popular (Mi corazón español) programs.
She also founded the ensemble Il Caravaggio with conductor Camille Delaforge, which performs in France and abroad.
Anna Reinhold has recorded numerous albums, notably with Raphaël Pichon and ensemble Pygmalion (Messe en si by Bach), lutenist Thomas Dunford (Labirinto d’Amore), Cappella Mediterranea conducted by Leonardo García Alarcón (Heroines of the Venetian Baroque), Les Arts Florissants under William Christie (N’espérez plus, mes yeux, Bien que l’Amour, Si vous vouliez un jour), and ensemble Il Caravaggio (Madonna della Grazia)…
Anna Reinhold has been represented by RSB Artists agency since 2013.

