Jeanine De Bique Soprano

Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Jeanine De Bique recently made her debut role as a Anaï (Moses and Pharaoh) at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, as Poppea (L’Incoronazione di Poppea) with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer, in the title-role of Alcina at the Paris Opera, as Agathe (Der Freischütz) with the Berlin Konzerthausorchester and Christoph Eschenbach, Bess (Porgy and Bess) and La Folie (Platée) at the Theater an der Wien (released as an album by harmonia mundi and DVD by Unitel) under William Christie. 

Other highlights include Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro) at San Francisco Opera, Annio (La Clemenza di Tito) at the Salzburg Festival, Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Rodelinda (Rodelinda) at the Opéra de Lille and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (Opus Klassik Award 2020 in the DVD category), Aida (Caruso in Cuba) at De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel, Mendelssohn’s “Lobesang” Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic and Herbert Blomstedt, Haydn’s Missa in Tempore Belli with Manfred Honeck and the WDR Symphony Orchestra, Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, and Martin Fröst, works by Handel with the Chineke! Orchestra at the BBC PROMS, concerts with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Ivan Fischer in New York and Los Angeles, Brahms’s German Requiem with Raphaël Pichon, Mahler’s Symphonies No. 4 with Teodor Currentzis and MusicAeterna and Mahler’s Symphony No.8 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop at the Ravinia Festival. 

She won the Opus Klassik Award 2022 in the category “Solo recording opera” for her album Mirrors with the Concerto Köln, which is dedicated to arias by Handel and some of his contemporaries (Berlin Classics, 2021).