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 2024/2025, Camille Schnoor will debut at the Opéra National de Bordeaux and at the Opéra comique in Paris with the World Premiere Les Sentinelles, she will sing again Hanna Glawari (The merry Widow) at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz München, she will take part to a new Amy Beach CD recording with the Münchner Symphoniker, she will sing Wagner and Saint-Saens with the Orchestre Colonne et the Salle Gaveau in Paris and give her house debut at the Opéra de Marseille (Rusalka).
During the summer 2024, Camille Schnoor presented herself at the prestigious summer festival Chorégies d’Orange in the Live TV broadcast “Musiques en fête” with arias and ensembles from Madama Butterfly, La Bohème and Faust, and made her debut at the Opéra de Lille as Rosalinde (die Fledermaus).
Highlights from past seasons have been a.o. her debut at the Bayreuther Festspiele under Pablo Heras-Casado (Parsifal), the Foreign Princess (Rusalka) and Hanna Glawari (The Merry Widow) at the Opéra de Nice, Ciò-Ciò-San (Madama Butterfly) in Limoges, Rouen and Vichy, Heidenheim, Ariadne (Ariadne auf Naxos) in Limoges and at the Hungarian State Opera Budapest, Mimì (La Bohème) in Munich, Aachen and Klosterneuburg, her Elbphilharmonie debut with Schumann's last Ballades under Laurence Equilbey, and her Marschallin debut (Der Rosenkavalier) in concert in Geneva.
“Camille Schnoor’s stunning Mimì gratified the ear and touched the soul.” Opera News
2019 she gave 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 has been working together with conductors Pablo Heras-Casado, Frédéric Chaslin, Christian Arming, Laurence Equilbey, Daniel Kawka, Erik Nielson and with directors Stefano Poda, Laurent Pelly, Joan Anton Rechi, Michel Fau and Josef E. Köpplinger.
Her first solo album “ Les Ames Naturelles “ was released 2022 by the label Klarthe. The Live recording of the Bayreuth Parsifal will be released in june 2024 by Deutsche Grammophon on CD and DVD.
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).