French mezzo-soprano (born 1963)
Béatrice Uria Monzon (born 28 December 1963 in Agen (Lot-et-Garonne)) is a French mezzo-soprano.
Biography.
Daughter of the Spanish painter Antonio Uria-Monzon, Béatrice Uria Monzon studied at the secondary school Joseph Chaumié, at the Bernard Palissy d'Agen High School and at the Catholic High School St Jean de Lectoure (Gers) where she was introduced to singing in the choir of the high school led by Roland Fornerod. She then went to the University of Bordeaux. She entered the Conservatoire de Bordeaux, then joined the Centre national d'insertion professionnelle des artistes lyriques of Marseille, and the École d'art lyrique of the Paris Opera.
She began her career as a lyric singer in 1987, as a mezzo-soprano. In 1989, she was Chérubin in Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" at the Opéra national de Lorraine.
She is known for her numerous performances of the title role of Bizet's "Carmen" which she interpreted at the Opéra Bastille in 1993 and 1994, then again in 1997, 1998, 1999, and on the most important stages of the world during the same period (1994: Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires; 1995: Opéra Royal de Wallonie; 1996: Teatro Massimo in Palerme, Teatro Regio; 1997: Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse; 1998: Chorégies d'Orange, Vienna State Opera, Metropolitan Opera of New York).
She has also performed the French and Italian repertoires: Massenet: Charlotte in "Werther", Hérodiade (title role), Dulcinée in "Don Quichotte", Chimène in "Le Cid" (alongside Roberto Alagna), Anita in "La Navarraise"; Berlioz: Cassandre and Didon in "Les Troyens", Béatrice in "Béatrice et Bénédict", Marguerite in "la Damnation de Faust"; Ambroise Thomas: Gertrude in "Hamlet", "Mignon" (title role); Poulenc: Mère Marie in "Dialogues of the Carmelites"; Saint-Saëns: Dalila in "Samson and Delilah", Offenbach: Giulietta in "The Tales of Hoffmann";
Italian repertoire: Bellini: Adalgisa in "Norma", Donizetti: Sarah in "Roberto Devereux", Eleonore in "La Favorite" (French and Italian versions); Verdi: Fenena in "Nabucco", Amnéris in "Aida", Eboli in "Don Carlos" (French and Italian versions); Mascagni: Santuzza in "Cavalleria rusticana" and also Wagner as Vénus in "Tannhauser" as well as Judith in Bartók's "Bluebeard's Castle", in the Hungarian language.
In 2012, she performed in Puccini's "Tosca".
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