conductor
Hailed by Forum Opera for her “dynamic and inspired” conducting, Camille Delaforge is renowned for her nuanced and expressive interpretations. Recent highlights include the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (where she was resident conductor last summer alongside Emmanuelle Haïm), the Bilbao Festival, the Salzburger Festspiele, the Festival de Radio France and the Orchestre national de Cannes.
Passionate about the vocal repertoire, Camille Delaforge regularly collaborates with leading opera singers at prestigious festivals such as the Festival de Sablé, the Festival Radio France (Montpellier), the Potager du Roi (Versailles), the Oude Muziek Festival (Utrecht), the Rosa Bonheur Festival and the Agapé Festival (Geneva), among others. She has a long-standing collaboration with bass-baritone Guilhem Worms, with whom she has worked on several chamber music programmes, including Mozart and Salieri (piano à quatre mains, with Karolos Zouganelis), La Dame de mes Songes (20th-century Franco-Spanish repertoire) and Près de mon coeur (French mélodies).
During the 2024/25 season, Camille Delaforge conducts Purcell’s Didon et Énée with the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra at the Dutch National Opera, Rameau’s Pygmalion at the Opéra Royal de Versailles, and several projects at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Grand Théâtre de Provence, among others. With her ensemble Il Caravaggio, she has conducted Campra’s Le Carnaval de Venise in prestigious venues such as the Opéra de Rennes, Angers Nantes and the Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing.
Camille Delaforge holds a master’s degree from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris. Keen to develop socio-cultural exchanges through musical education, she has developed several humanitarian projects, notably teaching disadvantaged children in Ecuador. With her ensemble Il Caravaggio, she also conducts cultural mediation projects in schools and with disadvantaged audiences in the Val d’Oise, Essonne and Seine-Saint-Denis regions.
She has recorded for Warner, Alpha Classics, Klarthe and Château de Versailles Spectacles.