Victoire Bunel
Mezzo-soprano
Recognised for her great musicality and rich vocal timbre, Victoire Bunel is one of the leading figures in the French musical landscape.
She trained at the Maîtrise de Radio France and the Département Supérieur pour Jeunes Chanteurs at the CRR de Paris. She earned a degree in musicology from La Sorbonne, studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in June 2018.
In recent seasons, Victoire has distinguished herself in several major roles, including Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande) at the Capitole de Toulouse, Ottavia (L’Incoronazione di Poppea) at the Opéra de Rennes (with Le Banquet Céleste) and Opéra de Toulon (with La Cappella Mediterranea), Ino (Semele by Handel) at the Opéra de Lille (with Le Concert d’Astrée), Annio (La Clemenza di Tito) in Rouen, La Voisine in L’Inondation by Filidei at the Opéra-Comique, and Fiodor (Boris Godunov) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.
This season, she is performing Isabelle in Le Carnaval de Venise, currently on tour with the ensemble Il Caravaggio. On April 3, 2025, she will appear in Madrid as Cassandra in L’Uomo Femina, directed by Agnès Jaoui with Le Poème Harmonique. Recently, she sang Brigitte de San Lucar in Le Domino Noir by Auber at the Opéra-Comique and performed a concert version of L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Ottavia) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées with Le Banquet Céleste.
Deeply passionate about chamber music, Victoire performed Schubert’s Winterreise alongside Romain Louveau and Jean-Christophe Lanièce in Geneva in January 2025, offering a reimagined interpretation of the cycle as the journey of a couple in crisis. On April 29, 2025, she will sing Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’Été with orchestra under the baton of Claire Gibault in Le Mans.
Victoire Bunel is a laureate of the Académie du Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Fondation Orsay-Royaumont, as well as the Fondation Accenture and the Fondation Safran.