Louise de Ricolfis

Soprano

A young soprano, Louise is equally at home in opera and the art of the recital. She earned her Master of Music degree with distinction from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London, studying under soprano Sophie Grimmer and vocal coach Sebastian Wybrew as a Kathleen Roberts Scholar.

Most recently, in November 2025, she performed the roles of Philis (”L’Amour fléchi par la constance” by Lalande) and Palès (”Le Ballet de la Jeunesse” by Lalande) at the CRR de Paris and the Théâtre Montansier in Versailles, under the direction of Fabien Armengaud and in a semi-staged production by Julia de Gasquet.

In the summer of 2025, Louise participated in the third edition of the Académie du Pays d’Auge, led by Sébastien Daucé and Damien Guillon.

In 2023, Louise was one of the seven Young Artists at the Lyrique-en-Mer Festival, directed by Philip Walsh. She performed the role of the Sailor in Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” to critical acclaim. She also sang the first soprano solo in Vivaldi’s “Gloria” during the festival’s "Venez chanter" (Come and Sing) events of the Festival and sings in the choir for J.S. Bach’s “St John Passion”.

As part of the opera scenes program at her conservatory, Trinity Laban, Louise performed the roles of Servilia in Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito”, Poppea in Monteverdi’s “L’incoronazione di Poppea”, Serpetta in Mozart’s “La finta giardiniera”, and Mélisande in Debussy’s “Pelléas et Mélisande” between 2021 and 2023. In 2024, she performed the roles of Ilia in Mozart’s “Idomeneo”, Marguerite in Gounod’s “Faust”, and Aménaïde in Rossini’s “Tancredi” in productions directed by Gidon Saks.

Regarding art song repertoire, she was a finalist in the “English Song Prize” competition (Trinity Laban) in a duo with pianist Varvara Tarasova in January 2022. In April 2022, Louise presented two art song recitals at Antonine University in Beirut and Zghorta, organized by Prof. Toufic Maatouk in partnership with the Institut Français du Liban. In March 2023, she presented a recital of French art songs with pianist Christina Koti at the Maison Française d’Oxford (MFO), preceded by an introduction by Professor Philip Bullock. This same program of French art songs was also presented at St Alfege Church and the Old Royal Naval College Chapel in London. Louise and Christina reprised the program at the French Embassy in Athens in June 2025 and presented it again in Crete in July 2025 as part of the “Festum π” Festival, directed by Dionysios Dervis-Bournias and Cédric Villani.

Louise has worked with stage directors Julia de Gasquet, Véronique Roire, Gidon Saks, Yves Coudray, Nicolas Slawny, and Armelle de Frondeville. She has participated in masterclasses with Benoît Dratwicki, Damien Guillon, Sébastien Daucé, Vincent Le Texier, Ubaldo Fabbri, Ailish Tynan, Michael Kelly, Blythe Gaissert, Jazmin Black Grollemund, and Maria Koroleva.

With a Master 2 in General Private Law (Paris I) and a Master 1 in Comparative Law (University of Oxford/University Paris II Panthéon-Assas), Louise has been fully dedicated to singing since 2019, after five years in Noémie Legendre's class at the Vincennes Municipal Conservatory (CRC). She obtained her Diploma of Musical Studies (DEM) in Sophie Fournier's class at the Montreuil Departmental Conservatory (CRD) in 2021.

Since obtaining her Master's degree London in July 2024, she lives in France and is currently honing her skills with Élène Golgevit and Charlotte Bonneu, and with Hasnaa Bennani and Caroline Bardot for the Baroque repertoire.

   

 

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