Norma Nahoun
Norma Nahoun studied singing in Paris and then at the Berlin University of Music. She has won several international competitions (Grand Prix de la mélodie française in Toulouse, Hans Gabor Belvedere in Vienna, and DEBUT competitions in Germany). She participated in the academies of the Verbier Festival and the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
From 2012 to 2014, she was a member of the young troupe of the Dresden Semperoper, where she sang roles such as Papagena in The Magic Flute, Barberina in The Marriage of Figaro, Didone in Domenico Sarro's Impresario delle Canarie, Philidel in Purcell's King Arthur, Die Königin in Křenek's Das geheime Königreich, and Frasquita in Carmen.
She made her debut at the Paris Opera in May 2015 as Papagena in The Magic Flute. In The Marriage of Figaro, she sang Susanna (Avignon and tour of France) and Barberina (Mostly Mozart Festival in New York, Edinburgh Festival). She sings Pamina in The Magic Flute (excerpts in concert in Rennes), Minerva and La Fama in Sacrati's La Finta Pazza (Dijon, Geneva, Krakow), Aldimira in Cavalli's Erismena (concert version in Luxembourg), L'Amour in Orphée et Eurydice (Nancy), Nannetta in Falstaff (Tours), Laoula in Chabrier's L'Etoile (Nancy), Baucis in Gounod's Philémon et Baucis (Tours), Lisette / Ivette in La Rondine (Nancy, Toulouse), Solveig in Grieg's Peer Gynt (Limoges, Montpellier), Colette in Rousseau's Le Devin du Village (Geneva), Frasquita in Carmen (Dijon), Jacqueline in Messager's Fortunio (Saint-Etienne), Nina in Massenet's Chérubin (Montpellier), Gretel in Hänsel et Gretel (Angers and Nantes), Mi in The Land of Smiles (Tours, Avignon), Lucy in The Telephone and Amélia in Amélia Goes to Menotti's Ball (Metz) and Juliette in The City of Things (Toulouse).
In concert, she has performed with the Stuttgart Kammerorchester (Fazil Say's Goethe-Lieder), the Bayerische Rundfunk Orchester (Gounod's Cinq-Mars in Munich, Vienna and Versailles, conducted by Ulf Schirmer), the Budapest Festival Orchestra (The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute in concert versions, then Mozart's Requiem conducted by Ivan Fischer), the Mahler Chamber Orchestra (Fauré's Requiem), the Tours Symphony Orchestra (Dvořak-Mozart program conducted by Jean-Yves Ossonce), the Orchestre National de Lyon (Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream, conducted by Leonard Slatkin), the Saint-Étienne Opera Orchestra (Mahler's 4th Symphony), the Accentus Choir (Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle), the Ensemble Café Zimmermann (Bach and Graupner, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater), The Balcony (Jacob Lenz in Salzburg). She sang a program "The Flowers of the Male – Naughty Café-Concert Songs" with the Palazzetto Bru-Zane (Venice, Berlin, and Paris) and regularly performs in recitals.
During the 2019-2020 season, she sang the role of The Young Girl in The Flood – premiered at the Opéra Comique and then reprised in Rennes and Nantes (Filidei/Pommerat). She sang Zerline in Don Giovanni in Saint-Étienne, and Pamina in an adaptation of The Magic Flute in Angers and Nantes. She reprised the program "The Flowers of the Male" in Montreal, the role of Aldimira in Erismena in Lisbon, and the role of Solveig in Peer Gynt in Limoges.