Marie Arnet

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Swedish-Norwegian soprano Marie Arnet studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at the National Opera Studio. Her extensive repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary and Marie is never afraid of a new challenge. Her career has taken her to Los Angeles Opera, La Scala, the Liceu in Barcelona and many other international theatres.

Marie made her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival stepping in at the last minute as Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro and went on to sing Diane Iphigénie en Aulide, Ilia in Idomeneo (conducted by Sir Simon Rattle), Mélisande Pelléas et Mélisande and Drusilla L’incoronazione di Poppea for the company. Other UK appearances include Sophie Der Rosenkavalier and Giulietta I Capuleti e I Montecchi (Opera North), Wendy in Richard Ayres Peter Pan for WNO and Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro (English National Opera). She sang Eurydice in a new production of Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice at Opéra de Lausanne, where she returned for Salieri La Grotta di Trofonio with Christoph Rousset and has appeared  as Pamina Die Zauberflöte at the Teatro Real in Madrid, in Nantes and at the Hyogo Arts Centre in Japan, as Mélisande in Palermo and at La Scala, Ilia Idomeneo for Hamburg State Opera and at the Liceu in Barcelona, Belinda Dido and Aeneas at La Scala and Xenia Boris Godunov, Ginevra Ariodante at the Liceu in Barcelona. More recent engagements include Harey in the world première of Glanert’s Solaris at the Bregenz Festival Anne Trulove The Rake’s Progress in a co-production with Caen, Reims, Rouen, Limoges & Luxembourg opera houses, Eurydice Orphée et Eurydice and Despina Cosi fan Tutte at the Royal Opera in Stockholm, Die Zauberflöte with Los Angeles Opera and Spoleto Festival, Le Nozze di Figaro at Netherlands Opera, Alceste in Handel’s Admeto with Nicholas McGegan at the Göttingen Festival and recently a return to Nantes as Pamina. Marie recently appeared at Welsh National Opera in the title role of David Pountney’s production of Lulu, to critical acclaim, and as Susanna in the world premiere of Elena Langer’s Figaro Gets a Divorce, also directed by Pountney.

Concert highlights have included concert performances of Zais with Les Talens Lyriques, and as the Cheshire Cat Alice in Wonderland both with Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and at the Barbican in London. Marie’s concert repertoire includes Bach’s St John Passion and Mass in B Minor, Mahler 2^nd and 4^th Symphonies, the Brahms and Fauré Requiems, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Pergolesi Stabat Mater, Haydn’s Nelson Mass and The Creation and Bruckner’s Te Deum. She has appeared in Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ at the Three Choirs Festival; Mozart’s Requiem with Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort and for the London Symphony Orchestra with Sir Colin Davis in London and New York; A Child of Our Time and Stravinsky’s Les Noces with the Orquesta Radio Televisión in Madrid; Handel’s Solomon for the NDR and with Rene Jacobs and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; Bach’s Christmas Oratorio on tour with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants,  Brahms’ German Requiem at the BBC Proms with James Conlon,  The Infernal Comedy with Martin Haselböck and John Malkovich in Europe and America, Tippet’s Third Symphony with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Mahler’s Des Knabenwunderhorn with the Kymi Sinfonietta in Finland, Tavener’s Akhmatova Requiem with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Orphée et Eurydice with the Orchestre des pays de Savoie.

Recent engagements include a return to the role of Susanna in Elena Langer’s Figaro gets a Divorce at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, and Sarah in the new commission Brothers by Daniel Bjarnason with Den Jyske Opera in Denmark, Icelandic Opera, and an upcoming performance at the Armel Opera Festival, Budapest. Last season she joined forces again with John Malkovich and the Wiener Akademie in a programme of Beethoven in Hamburg, as well as singing the title role in Berg’s Lulu (suite) in a studio recording with BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Brahms Requiem at Canterbury Cathedral and stepping in last minute to sing in the UK premiere of Ross Harris’ Face at the Barbican Centre with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Most recently, Marie performed the role of Freia in Longborough Festival Opera’s production of Wagner’s Das Rheingold, as part of their four year Ring Cycle. Looking further ahead she will return to sing Gutrune Götterdämmerung, with the full cycle at Longborough Festival culminating in 2023. Her 2019-20 season includes performances of Glanert Requiem for Hieronymus Bosch with both the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Semyon Bychkov.

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