Arts-Scène Diffusion

Les Kapsber'girls

EARLY MUSIC

Photo Olivier Féraud
Photo Olivier Féraud
© H. Caldaguès
Photo P. Morales
Photo Olivier Féraud

Alice Duport-Percier (version longue) Soprano

 

Alice grew up in a rich musical environment and quickly made her desire to sing known. She began by joining a children’s choir at 4 years-old and integrated la Maîtrise de l’Opéra de Lyon with which she took part in many Operas like Tchaikovsky’s Lady of Spades, Mozart’s Don Giovanni or Berg’s Lulu.

​She continued her vocal training with Claire Marbot and specialised in ‘Early Music’ at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique of Lyon in 2013. She studied with Bruno Boterf, Anne Delafosse, Anne-Catherine Vinay, Monique Zanetti and Robert Expert. During her studies, Alice worked with great directors like Michael Radulescu, Sébastien Daucé or Raphaël Pichon. At the same time, she obtained her ‘Diplôme d’Etat’ from the CEFEDEM Rhône-Alpes in 2016.

Alice is semi-finalist of the Corneille Compétition (Rouen) in 2017 and the Froville Competition in 2019. As of today, she collaborates with several ensembles: Les Kapsber'girls, Libera me, Tenta la fuga, Concerto Soave, La chapelle harmonique or Spirito, with all of which she takes on a vast repertoire, both classical and popular ranging from middle-ages to today.

Alice had her first opera role in 2019 with Oberto in Handel’s Alcina as part of Händelfestspiele in Karlsruhe. She was directed by Andreas Spering and she was noticed for her voice, qualified as ‘crystalline’ and her acting skills as a young man. Alice is Love in Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice in May 2023 directed by Stefano Montanari in the prestigious Zürich Opern Haus.

 

May 2023

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A la luz del dia - The Kapsber'girls: focus program

In this final instalment of the trilogy devoted to popular repertoires revived throughout Europe at the beginning of the 17th…

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In this final instalment of the trilogy devoted to popular repertoires revived throughout Europe at the beginning of the 17th century, Les Kapsber'girls take us on a journey to the end of the Spanish Golden Age, focusing on one of the most important genres of the period: the Tonos Humanos.

In contrast to the Tonos Divinos, the term Tonos Humanos covers the vernacular strophic songs appropriated by Spanish composers of the period, such as the Villanelles in Italy and the Brunettes in France.

In this programme, with the shimmering colours of a Spain still ablaze, the quartet pays tribute to the key composers who shaped the Iberian musical repertoire: Juan Arañés (...-1649), José Marin (1619-1699), Mateo Romero (1575-1647) and others.

With their characteristic taste for sonic textures, Les Kapsber'girls invite two additional instruments to join them: the harp and percussion, offering themselves the opportunity to enrich their palette of colours. Instrumental music was not forgotten by composers such as Gaspar Sanz (ca 1640-1710) and Diego Fernandez De Huete (1635-1713), who drew inspiration from fashionable songs and dances, leaving in their wake a wealth of tunes for guitar and harp, two emblematic instruments of Spanish Baroque music.

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