soprano
Louise Bourgeat is an opera singer from Lyon who began her training at the Conservatoire and the Maîtrise de l’Opéra de Lyon, where she studied dance and piano. She then continued her studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon in the classes of Sophie Marin-Degor, Hélène Lucas and Nobuyoshi Shima.
She joined Leslie Fagan’s class at Laurier Canadian University, where she discovered the English-language opera repertoire. After obtaining the Diplôme d’Études Vocales de Notre-Dame de Paris, she continued her operatic studies with Valérie Guillorit at the Royal Flemish Conservatory, and at the Opéra Studio de La Monnaie.
She continues to perform on stage, notably at the Académie des Épopées, at the Opéra de Massy, with the ensemble Correspondance and at the the Festival Lyrique de Samoëns in The Magic Flute (Second Lady). She regularly regularly in French and Belgian opera houses, notably in the roles of Offenbach roles (Alexis, Oreste, Cupid), conducted by Enrique Segura, but also alongside the Paladins – Jérôme Correas as Liesgen in the Kaffekantate staged by choreographer Ambra Senatore for the Opéra de Massy and Nantes, as well as Meg Page in Falstaff for the MM Academy at La Monnaie. She was Musetta in La Bohème at the Forges Opéra, Second Woman for the Opéra Royal de Versailles with Stephane Fuget conducting, Eurydice in Glück’s Orphée et Eurydice for the Des Cybèles orchestra in Lyon.
As part of the Udo Reinemann International Masterclass, she gave a recital of melodies and lieder at La Monnaie, and was Solo Soprano in Caldara’s Laudate Pueri with Amici miei, and in César Franck’s Sept Paroles du Christ en Croix conducted by Eloïse Magat.
This season, she is Daphne in the Royal Opera Academy’s next production, Actéon by Charpentier. With the Ensemble Il Caravaggio Studio, conducted by Camille Delaforge, she recorded the role of La Statue (Pygmalion, Rameau), as well as the role of La Bohémienne (Le Carnaval de Venise, Campra) in a French tour a French tour, notably at the Opéra de Rennes, Compiègne and Nantes. She joins a new production by the Opéra-Comique, Petite Balade aux Enfers, again in the role of Eurydice, notably for the Opéra de Reims.
On 27 September 2024, at a public concert organised by the Festival at the Maison de quartier Romain Rolland in Saint-Denis, she sang Vivaldi, Haendel and Francesco Geminiani. She sang at the Saint-Denis Festival in May 2025 as part of a recital with Il Caravaggio on Charpentier, Lully and Lambert.