Mezzo-soprano, she earned degrees in both singing and acting from the Geneva Conservatory before furthering her training at the International Opera Studio in Zurich.

The recipient of numerous scholarships (Migros, Ernst Göhner, Leenaards, Les Saints Anges Paris), she is also a prizewinner of several international competitions, including Plácido Domingo’s prestigious “Operalia” competition.

She performs in Switzerland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Monaco, Italy, the Sultanate of Oman, and Japan. Carine is regularly invited to appear in opera productions, recitals, and sacred music performances (oratorios, masses, and cantatas).

Recently, she performed in Die Walküre in Marseille, Mélisande in Neuchâtel, and Madame Argante in La Sérénade at the opera houses of Avignon and Rennes. With the EVL and the Orchestre Musique des Lumières conducted by Facundo Agudin, she recorded the alto solo in Bach’s Markuspassion.

Another recent release is the CD recording of La Sorcière by Camille Erlanger, conducted by Guillaume Tourniaire, in which she recorded the role of Aïsha. She also performs in recital with the Trio Saveurs, exploring a wide repertoire of duets for female voices accompanied by piano. More recently, she sang the title role in Carmen with Opéra des Champs and the Fribourg Chamber Orchestra, performed Hänsel in Solothurn with the Stadtorchester Solothurn under Harald Siegel, and appeared as Véronique in Bizet’s Le Docteur Miracle with Opéra de Lausanne on tour (Route Lyrique 2025).

Soon, she will perform the role of Fenena in Verdi’s Nabucco at Geneva’s Victoria Hall in a concert version with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR) conducted by R. Mayor.

Her latest news can be found at: www.sechaye.com

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It was in Marseille, his hometown, and through extensive musical studies, that Claude Cortese’s passion for opera and live performance in general developed.

Very interested in everything that escapes the public eye, backstage and the work carried out upstream, he naturally moved into stage management from a young age.
It was at the Opéra de Lausanne that he obtained, in 1990 at the age of 19, his first professional engagement, on a production of La Traviata.

In 2003, Jean-Paul Davois called on him to serve as his deputy as Artistic Administrator of the newly created structure Angers Nantes Opéra. Over eleven years, he contributed significantly to the development of artistic programming and was responsible for casting.

In 2014, he joined Opéra national de Lorraine in Nancy, where he became Director of Artistic Administration. In close collaboration with its director Laurent Spielmann, he designed and organised both opera and symphonic seasons.

In 2020, Alain Perroux, newly appointed General Director of Opéra national du Rhin (Strasbourg, Mulhouse, Colmar), invited him to join as Director of Artistic Production.

In February 2023, after nearly 20 years in artistic leadership positions, and 33 years after beginning his career in the same opera house in Lausanne, he was unanimously appointed Director.

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After studying at the University of Cambridge, the English conductor Adrian Kelly became a member of the Royal Opera House Young Artists Programme, then a coach at the Hamburg State Opera.

He worked regularly at the Salzburg Festival, assisting Ingo Metzmacher on Luigi Nono’s Al gran sole carico d’amore and Wolfgang Rihm’s Dionysos. He has also worked with conductors such as Antonio Pappano, Mark Elder, Peter Schneider, Nicola Luisotti, Philippe Jordan and Simone Young. He has been Musical Director of the Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival since 2015.

His engagements include appearances at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and a tour of the United States conducting the baroque orchestra for The Infernal Comedy with actor John Malkovich. In summer 2014, he conducted a new production of Le nozze di Figaro at Central City Opera in Colorado.

From 2010 to 2017, he served as Principal Guest Conductor at the Salzburg National Theatre, working regularly with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. He conducted many productions in Salzburg, including Krenek’s Jonny spielt auf, Verdi’s Rigoletto and Massenet’s Werther. In February 2016, he conducted the critically acclaimed Austrian première of Charles Wuorinen’s Brokeback Mountain. Recent Salzburg highlights include Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel at the Felsenreitschule, and Puccini’s La bohème at the Haus für Mozart. In the 2018–19 season, he conducted Massenet’s Manon and a cycle of Mozart’s three Da Ponte operas at the Landestheater.

In June 2018, Adrian Kelly was appointed Artistic Director of the Buxton Festival. In his first season, he conducted a new production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.

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General and Artistic Director — NOF – Nouvel Opéra Fribourg – Neue Oper Freiburg

Born in Buenos Aires, Leandro Suarez is the General and Artistic Director of NOF – Nouvel Opéra Fribourg – Neue Oper Freiburg. He began his musical studies in clarinet at the age of eight, later complementing this training with studies in economics and administration.

Between 1997 and 2002, he was involved in organizing major international festivals in Argentina, including the International Double Reed Society Festival and the Buenos Aires International Music Festival. In 2002, he moved to Switzerland to further his clarinet studies in Lugano and Basel, where he obtained a Concert Diploma, while also completing training in recording techniques and production. He later earned a Diploma in Cultural Management awarded jointly by the Universities of Lausanne and Geneva.

From 2004 to 2012, he served as principal clarinetist of the Orchestre Musique des Lumières under the artistic direction of Facundo Agudin, before gradually transitioning into cultural institution management. Beginning in 2010, he became the orchestra’s artistic coordinator and produced several major opera productions, including Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Verdi’s La Traviata, as well as the world premiere of A. Pflüger’s Romulus der Grosse and the international tour of Henze’s El Cimarrón, notably presented at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.

At the same time, he developed artistic collaborations in Spain with the Opéra de Cámara de Navarra, producing operatic works presented at venues such as the Teatro Gayarre (Pamplona), Teatro Arriaga (Bilbao), and Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid). He also co-founded Colectivo E7.2, the organization behind After Cage, the first artistic experimentation festival in Pamplona, which he directed during its first four editions from 2014 to 2017.

A recognized record producer, Leandro has produced numerous albums distributed internationally in collaboration with labels such as OehmsClassics (Universal), Doron Music, IBS Classical, and NEOS Music, including Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis. He also oversaw the visual production of the opening concert of the prestigious Schwetzingen Festival in 2015, as well as the video production of Britten’s War Requiem for the Argentine National Symphony Orchestra in Buenos Aires.

After directing the Nouveau Monde cultural center in Fribourg and the Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne, he joined NOF in 2022, becoming its General and Artistic Director in 2025. In this role, he has contributed to the development of European co-productions with La Monnaie, the Royal Danish Opera, the Royal Opera House, and the Irish National Opera, while also establishing professional integration programs with HEMU – Haute École de Musique Vaud Valais Fribourg.

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Born in Switzerland in 1971, Alain Perroux studied literature at the University of Geneva (musicology and German literature), choral conducting with Michel Corboz, and singing at the Geneva Conservatory. After eight years as a music journalist, first at the Journal de Genève and then for Le Temps, he became dramaturg at the Grand Théâtre de Genève from 2001 to 2009. He then served as Director of Artistic Administration and dramaturg at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

In 1998, he devised a version of Ibsen and Grieg’s Peer Gynt for actors and singers with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. The recording (Aeon/Harmonia Mundi) received several distinctions (Diapason d’or of the year, “Choc” from Le Monde de la musique). He also staged the spoken dialogues in three languages with actors such as Lambert Wilson, Susanne Lothar and Sir Derek Jacobi. This concert version has since been performed in Prague, Essen, Cologne, Dortmund, London, Vienna, Graz, Limoges and Montpellier.

He has published introductory books on opera (L’Opéra, mode d’emploi, 2000 and 2015) and on American musical theatre (La Comédie musicale, mode d’emploi, 2009), as well as the monographs Frank Martin and Franz Schreker, and he has edited several collective works.

From 2003 to 2011, he led the Opéra de Poche de Genève, an independent company through which he presented (production and staging) in several cities of French-speaking Switzerland: Impressions de Pelléas (Debussy) in 2004 and 2011, La Calisto (Cavalli) in 2006, and Sweeney Todd (Sondheim) in 2008 and 2009.

For the creation of Contes de la lune vague après la pluie, he wrote his first opera libretto. In 2015, he also produced the French adaptation of Jonathan Dove’s The Monster in the Maze, created by Simon Rattle at the Aix Festival, as well as the dialogue adaptations for Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers and La Belle Hélène for Opéra national de Lorraine.

General Director of Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg since 2020, Pascal Perroux will take up the position of General Director of the Grand Théâtre de Genève from the 2026–2027 season.

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Born in Perth, Scotland, Stuart Patterson studied singing first in Glasgow, then in London, Paris, and Florence. The teachers who influenced him most were David Pollard, Claudio Desderi, Peggy Bouveret, Anna Reynolds, Graham Clark, and Peter Pears.

Awarded a scholarship by the French government, he joined the Groupe Vocal de France and collaborated with composers such as Berio, Kagel, Xenakis, Eötvös, and Dusapin. In 1989, he became a member of the company of the Teatro Verdi di Pisa, where he performed from 1989 to 1996, singing mainly Mozart, Rossini, and Monteverdi under the direction of Maestro Desderi. He later specialized in character tenor roles, performing in some of the world’s most prestigious opera houses, including Paris, Turin, Bern, Lisbon, Bergen, Palermo, Lyon, Mexico City, Bregenz, Florence, and Marseille.

Notable engagements include the Aix-en-Provence Festival (Le Nez), the Staatsoper Berlin (Madama Butterfly), Lübeck (Siegfried), Geneva (Andrea Chénier, A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Lausanne (Die lustigen Weiber, La Vie Parisienne, Candide…), the Royal Opera House in London (Werther and Carmen), and Budapest (Falstaff, Ariadne auf Naxos, Poppea). In 2014, he performed the role of Herod in Richard Strauss’s Salome in Taipei.

In September 2026, he will sing the role of Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte) with the Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Iván Fischer, in Budapest, Vicenza, and Baden-Baden.

Stuart Patterson was Professor of Voice at the Geneva–Neuchâtel University of Music (HEM) from 2012 to 2024. Today, he gives numerous workshops and masterclasses. Until 2020, he was the artistic director of the Festival Lyrique de Montperreux (France), which he founded in 2009. He has also directed around ten productions, including Britten’s Noye’s Fludde and Krása’s Brundibár.
 
 

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