Jeanine De Bique in Alcina with the Bayerische Staatsoper, July 2026 / Picture: G. Schied
The Trinidadian soprano Jeanine De Bique has kicked off a season of high-profile operatic appearances, together with a just lately concluded debut run at La Monnaie as Gounod’s Juliette and a run as Donna Anna in a brand new manufacturing of Don Giovanni on the Paris Opera within the spring.
However live performance work, particularly in early music, stays De Bique’s bread and butter: in Fort Price final month, she was joined by pianist Aaron Wajnberg and in New York subsequent week, she shall be accompanied by Jeannette Sorrell’s interval instrument chamber ensemble, Apollo’s Fireplace. Her New York program options a mixture of Baroque choices in addition to up to date music, folks songs, and calypso choices from her native Caribbean that she sings with a selected flare.
De Bique and Sorrell will reunite in New York in December on the Philharmonic for Messiah. Immediately’s choice options De Bique in one in every of her outstanding operatic gigs from earlier this 12 months, Alcina on the Bayerische Staatsoper.
Handel: Alcina, “Ah! Ruggiero crudel… Ombre pallide”
Jeanine De Bique
Conductor: Stefano Montanari
Bayerische Staatsoper
13 July 2026
Broadcast
