Manon Gleizes

French soprano Manon Gleizes has been studying at The Guildhall School of Music & Drama since 2015, under the guidance of Giles Underwood. Since that same year, she is one of the 10 singers in Le Pôle Lyrique d’Excellence in Lyon with Cécile De Boever. Before studying at Guildhall, Manon trained at Le Conservatoire de Lyon with Marcin Habela. She received the highest distinction in her final theory examination for her performance in Victor Hugo’s ’Les Djinns’.

She made her professional debut as Nedda, in Pagliacci, in July 2018, with cond. A. Cravero, during Les Nuits Musicales de Bazoches Festival. Her repertoire includes roles from Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Véronique in Le Docteur Miracle, La Baronne in La Vie Parisienne, to Junon and Minerve in Orphée aux Enfers. She has sung in the chorus of the Carmen, Turandot and Tosca productions at Toulon Opera House from 2006 to 2011. She has performed during several festivals, such as Les Voix Départementales, le Lyly, Les Nuits de Fourvière and the Sion Festival. She was soprano in Le Choeur d’Oratorio Bernard Tétu with the Lyon Symphony Orchestra for several years, taking part in productions such as Berlioz’s Requiem during the Berlioz Festival, which was filmed by Medici TV.

On the concert stage, Manon sang the soprano part in Dvorak’s ’D minor Mass’ and St Saens’ ’Requiem’ in La Basilique de Fourvière, Lyon. Her sponsor promoted her with a concert for the Talents de Femmes Festival at Le Théâtre Denis. In 2010 she sang with the Cannes Symphony Orchestra, and some extracts of Die Zauberflöte
at Toulon Opera House in 2011. Manon’s chamber music experience includes a setting for voice and string quartet at the Blacher Contemporary Music Festival. She was invited by The Break-Down Quartet for a series of concerts at Les Voix Départementales Festival, in 2017, while in the summer of 2018 she performed with the pianist Alcibiade Minel for several recitals in her home town.

She trains with J. Ramster, A. Garichot, N. Denise, S. D’Oustrac, R. Goulding, J. Williams, N. De Villiers, L. Marcus, R. Philogene, J. Lemalu, P. Robinson, S. Walker, P. Forget, N. Denize and M. Walker, by taking part in several Academies such as the Tibor Varga Academy, the Fourvière Masterclass, and the Abingdon Summer School for Solo Singers.

Manon receives support from Les Soroptimists National France, she is the recipient of the 3rd prize for The Kathleen Ferrier Bursary for young solo singers, in 2016, and is also among The Drake Calleja Trust 2018/19 scholars. As part of her graduation recital in 2019 she will premiere Östlund’s ’Berceuse Bergamasque’, which is dedicated to her.