A busy season in Gelsenkirchen

A brand new recipient of the Gelsenkirchener Theaterpreis 2024, awarded by the Sparkasse Gelsenkirchen for outstanding performances at the Musiktheater im Revier (MiR), where she has been a soloist since 2023/24, Margot Genet's first season there saw her take on roles such as Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), Norina (Don Pasquale) and Amelia (Bernarda Albas Haus by Aribert Reimann). An equally busy new season awaits her in Gelsenkirchen, with no less than five new roles: Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel, Musetta in La Bohème, Nannetta in Falstaff, Carmina Burana as well as Stela (the bride) in Innocence, the eagerly-awaited German premiere of Kaija Saariaho's last opera.

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05.09.24

Role debut as Despina (Cosi fan tutte)

At the end of an intensive season, including an extremely successful European tour with René Jacobs and the B'Rock Orchestra (Frasquita in Carmen), Margot Genet makes her role debut as Despina in a new production of Cosi fan tutte at the Musiktheater im Revier (Gelsenkirchen).

After Norina (Don Pasquale) and Annina (Eine Nacht in Venedig), Despina is the third leading role that Margot has taken on as a member of the ensemble at the Musiktheater im Revier.

Opening night on June 8, 2024

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Concert tour with René Jacobs

In the middle of an exciting season in Gelsenkirchen, where she is taking on two roles in particular (Ciboletta in Eine Nacht in Venedig and Despina in Cosi fan tutte), Margot Genet will shortly be celebrating her very first collaboration with René Jacobs, who has asked her to perform the role of Frasquita in Carmen, which he will be conducting in concert version in the frame of a European tour with the outstanding B'Rock Orchestra.

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25.01.24

Debut at the Paris Opéra Comique

For the closure of a busy season which was dominated by her role-debut as Norina (Don Pasquale) at the Gelsenkirchen Musiktheater im Revier, Margot Genet is making her debut at the Paris Opéra Comique in a production of Grétry's Zémire et Azor (role of Lisbé) under Louis Langrée's baton.

Further good news: As from season 2023/24 Margot Genet will be an ensemble-member of the Musiktheater im Revier, commencing with Despina (Così fan tutte) right after her Annina (A Night in Venice).

Opening night of Zémire et Azor in Paris on June 23, 2023.

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17.05.23

Exciting end-of-season in Gelsenkirchen

At the end of a fully packed season, Margot Genet is back to the Gelsenkirchen Musiktheater taking part in a production consisting of two one-act operas: Das Wundertheater by Hans Werner Henze and Wachsfigurenkabinett by Karl Amadeus Hartmann. Das Wundertheater, Henze’s first opera (in the 1948 original version written as an „opera for actors“, revised for singers in 1965), is based on The Altarpiece of the Wonders, an intermezzo within Cervantes’ Don Quixote). Hartmann’s Wachsfigurenkabinett (Waxworks) remained unfinished in 1928. Being very familiar with Hartmann’s music, Henze pursued the completion of the piece together with composer-colleagues Wilfried Hiller and Günter Bialas committed not to change a single of Hartmann’s notes. Right after this interesting project Margot will happily join the Atelier Lyrique of the Verbier Festival Academy!

02.06.22

One opera-studio joined by four opera-companies

Margot Genet proceeds determinedly her own way, drifted ashore by favourable winds as well as significant recognition. In June she was awarded the scholarship "Malvina et Denise Menda" from the Opéra Comique in Paris, followed by the invitation as an awardee of the Royaumont Foundation to sing the role of Poppea in a production of Haendel's Agrippina. As from this season 2021/22 she is a member of the NRW opera-studio which offers her the opportunity to join numerous stage-productions of four different German Opera Companies: Dortmund, Essen, Gelsenkirchen and Wuppertal. Starting in Gelsenkirchen with Eurydice in Orpheus in the Underworld and followed by one of the title-roles in The Sultan’s Children in Dortmund, a world-premiere by Avner Dorman.

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08.09.21

Ariane et Barbe-Bleue at the Lyon Opera

In 2019 Margot Genet made her debut at the Lyon Opera in L’enfant et les sortilèges (roles of the Princess and the Nighingale). With the permission of the virus she will be back soon to this prestigious stage, taking part in a new production of Dukas’ Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (role of Ygraine) being currently rehearsed. Livestream on March 24, 2021 at 19:30 (GMT+1) on medici.tv

Welcome!

We are glad to welcome Margot Genet to our artists’ roster. Born in Limoges (France) in 1994 the soprano took vocal- and violoncello-lessons in her home-town before pursuing her studies at the Geneva Haute Ecole de Musique and at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Her first roles on stage were Drusilla in L’incoronazione di Poppea, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro and Elle in La Voix humaine. In 2019/20 she performed the roles of The Fire, The Princess and The Nightingale in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges at the Opéra de Lyon. Next season she will be back to the Opera Studio of the Opéra de Lyon, taking part in a staged production of Dukas Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (role of Ygraine) as well as in an Offenbach-gala-concert. Concurrently she will also join the Académie Musicale Philippe Jaroussky.

02.07.20