The French-German soprano Camille Schnoor was born 1986 in Nice. Praised for her “stupendous acting and powerful, fascinating singing” (FAZ), she won the Bavarian Sponsorship Award for Performing Arts 2020 as well as the International Competition Vokal Genial 2013. The major daily German newspaper Die Welt nominated her 2016 both as “Best Singer” and “Best Newcomer “.
During the season 2023/2024, Camille Schnoor will debut at the Bayreuther Festspiele as Klingsors Zaubermädchen in the new Parsifal production, she will then sing her signature role Mimì (La Bohème) in a new production at Theater Aachen, perform as a soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony alongside the Münchner Symphoniker at the Isarphilharmonie München and the Liederhalle Stuttgart, she will come back to the Opéra de Nice, making her role debut as the Foreign Princess in Rusalka, she will sing Ciò-Ciò-San (Madama Butterfly) at the Opéra de Vichy, debut as Rosalinde (die Fledermaus) at the Opéra de Lille and then return to the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Munich with Hanna Glawari (die Lustige Witwe).
Highlights of past seasons have been her debut as Ariadne (Ariadne auf Naxos) 2022 at the Opéra de Limoges and Opéra National de Montpellier (cover). Short after her debut at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg 2023 with Schumann’s Balladen under the baton of Laurence Equilbey, she jumped in on short notice as Ariadne for the revival Premiere of Ariadne auf Naxos at the Hungarian State Opera Budapest. 2021 she had her role debut with another Strauss role, the Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier) in a concert version at the BFM in Geneva with the Orchestre Symphonique Ose!, and sang two of her signature roles again: Mimì (la Bohème) at the Austrian Festival Oper Klosterneuburg and Hanna Glawari (The Merry Widow) at the Opéra de Nice.
“Camille Schnoor’s stunning Mimì gratified the ear and touched the soul.” Opera News
2019 was the year of her debut as Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte)at the Bergen Opera in Norway as well as her house debut at the Opera national de Lorraine in the role of Hilda (Sigurd by Reyer). Her Ciò-Ciò-San debut 2018 (Madama Butterfly) at Opéra de Limoges and Opéra de Rouen Normandie was highly acclaimed by both the public and critics and the production was streamed several times on French TV.
From 2016 to 2023 Camille Schnoor has been a leading soloist at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich and sang there numerous main roles of her Fach, including Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Mimì (La Bohème), Tatyana (Eugene Onegin), Hanna Glawari (The Merry Widow), Antonia and Giulietta (The Tales of Hoffmann).
She worked with stage directors such as Stefano Poda, Joan Anton Rechi, Michel Fau and Josef E. Köpplinger and with conductors Pablo Heras-Casado, Frédéric Chaslin, Christian Arming, Laurence Equilbey, Daniel Kawka, Erik Nielson, among others.
Her first solo album Les Âmes Naturelles was released 2022 by the label Klarthe.
Camille Schnoor completed her musical studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris (CNSM) 2007 as a concert pianist, before studying singing in Paris and Maastricht. She made her first singer steps on stage 2012-2013 as a sponsorship laureate at Theater Aachen, before joining the Ensemble 2014-2016 and performing there Luisa (Luisa Miller), Verdi’s Requiem, Marie in Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, Agathe (Der Freischütz) and Maria (West Side Story).