Artists
Du renard au gorille
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.
François Rougier
Tenor
After studying simultaneously at Sciences Po and the conservatory (under Paul Guigue and Cécile Fournier) in Grenoble, François Rougier quickly made a name for himself as a tenor to watch: winner of the Clermont-Ferrand International Singing Competition in 2011, he took part in the first Académie of Opéra Comique in 2013, then joined the Nouvelle troupe Favart from 2018 to 2023.
In 2006, Mirella Giardelli entrusted him with his first roles as Platée and Ferrando in two shows based on Rameau and Mozart with the Atelier des Musiciens du Louvre.
In 2012, he discovered the work of director Alexandra Lacroix in Haydn's Il Mondo della Luna and subsequently joined her company as an associate artist. This long-term collaboration, marked by his participation in a dozen shows conceived and directed by Alexandra Lacroix, has deeply nourished his relationship with the stage, his approach to multidisciplinarity, and his view of the operatic repertoire.
His musical and theatrical talents have made him a regular guest at numerous opera houses, including the Paris Opera, Opéra Comique, the Rhin Opéra, the Dijon Opéra, the Rouen Opéra, the Limoges Opéra, the Avignon Opéra, the Lille Opéra, the Rennes Opéra, the Angers-Nantes Opéra, the Aix-la-Chapelle Opéra, the Lausanne Opéra, and the Liège Opéra. Among the roles he has recently performed are : Don José and Franck in The Carmen Case by Alexandra Lacroix and Diana Soh at the Bordeaux Opera and the Limoges Opera, the Chaplain in Dialogues des Carmélites directed by Tiphaine Raffier at the Rouen Opera, Grigori in Boris Godunov directed by Jean-Romain Vesperini at the Avignon Opera, Marinoni in Fantasio directed by Thomas Jolly at the Opéra Comique, Sidi-Toupi in Belboul by Alexandra Lacroix based on Massenet and Farnaz Modarresifar at the Reims Opera, Giannino in L'Uomo Femina by Galuppi, directed by Agnès Jaoui at the Dijon Opera, Faust, Calaf, and Paolo in Don Giovanni aux enfers by Simon Steen-Andersen at the Opéra du Rhin, the Neighbor in L'inondation by Pommerat and Filidei at the Luxembourg theatre.
In concert, he will perform in 2024 at the invitation of René Jacobs in the role of Don José with the B'rock Orchestra at the Philharmonie de Paris, the Teatro Real in Madrid, De Singel in Antwerp, the Philharmonie in Cologne, the Dortmund Konzerthaus, and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. He is also regularly invited by numerous orchestras (Toulouse, Strasbourg, Montpellier, Avignon-Provence, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Liège, etc.) for concert versions of operas and oratorios.
His projects for 2025-2026 include Daniel in Hérold's Zampa with the Munich Radio Orchestra, Mozart's Requiem with the Idomeneo Orchestra at the Collège des Bernardins, a revival of the recital Du renard au gorille at the Musée en musique - Grenoble, Giannino for the revivals of Galuppi's L'Uomo Femina with the Poème harmonique at the Opéra de Rouen and the Wiener Konzerthaus, Malicorne in Delibes' Jean de Nivelle at the Müpa in Budapest with the Hungarian National Orchestra, Radamès in Aïda déchaînée based on Verdi at the Opéra Grand Avignon and Clermont Auvergne Opéra, Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Orchestre National Avignon-Provence and then with the Orchestre National Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
François Rougier has been represented by the RSB Artists agency since 2014.
Marine Thoreau La Salle
Pianiste / Pianist
Pianist Marine Thoreau La Salle developed a passion for the link between text and music at an early age. Trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in the vocal accompaniment and vocal accompaniment-direction classes, she was unanimously awarded two brilliant first prizes. There she received advice from Anne Le Bozec, Anne Grappotte, Jeff Cohen, Susan Manoff and Emmanuel Olivier on accompanying lieder and mélodie. Erika Guiomar and Nathalie Dang trained her in the opera repertoire and in the profession of vocal coach.
She was soon engaged as pianist and vocal coach by the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Théâtre National de l'Opéra Comique in Paris, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Festival international d'art lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence, the Opéra de Lausanne and the Opéra de Dijon. She has performed under the baton of conductors Louis Langrée, Laurent Campellone, Marc Minkowski, Leo Hussain, Sébastien Rouland, Alexander Joel, Stefan Soltesz and Patrick Davin, and taken part in productions by directors Eric Ruf, Valérie Lesort, Olivier Py, Benjamin Lazar, Yoshi Oida, Robert Carsen, Ivan Alexandre, Ivan Grinberg, Cyril Teste, Pauline Bureau and Denis Podalydès.
A privileged partner of singers, she also pursues an intense recital activity. In the Foyer of the Opéra Comique or at the invitation of the Palazzetto Bru Zane in Paris and Venice, she regularly performs in vocal-piano programmes alongside a wide range of vocal personalities: soprani Jodie Devos, Eugénie Warnier, Florie Valiquette, Chantal Santon Jeffery, Olivia Doray, mezzo-soprani Marie Lenormand, Marie-Andrée Bouchard Lesieur, Anna Reinhold, tenors François Rougier, Yu Shao and Enguerrand de Hys, baritones Yoann Dubruque and Philippe Estèphe...
Eager to take on the limelight, she also lends herself to the game of musical theatre. At the Opéra Comique, she created Petite Balade aux Enfers, based on Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice, and Petite Balade Enchantée, based on The Magic Flute, with director Valérie Lesort, and took on the role of the martyred pianist in her Cabaret Horrifique for the small screen. With Arnaud Marzorati and his clique Les Lunaisiens, she created On n'est pas là pour chanter des Cantiques, L'Estaminet lyrique and La Vipère du Trottoir with Magali Léger (Musée d'Orsay). With Olivier Martin Salvan, she created La Caballe rebondissante alongside Lea Desandre and Marc Mauillon. With Bruno Bayeux, Le Cabaret autour de Sarah Bernhardt alongside Nathalie Manfrino, Yoann Dubruque...
Passionate about the French operatic repertoire, she is also an active vocal coach. She has a particularly close working relationship with the Opéra Comique in Paris: as coach to the singers in the Académie, and as principal vocal coach on the company's productions. She is also a vocal coach for director Alain Garichot's summer academies (Sorru in Musica-Corse) and for the international summer academy at Domaine Forget (Canada), at the invitation of baritone Jean-François Lapointe.
She is a vocal coach at the Haute École de Musique de Genève in Neuchâtel (Switzerland).

