Lucie
Chartin

Soprano

"blood-chilling coloratura"

Opus Klassiek

"Ms Chartin is a firecracker"

music OHm

"Her arias are exquisitely beautiful"

The Culture Vulture

"Highlight of the evening"

The Yorkshire Post

"Lucie Chartin sparkles from the start"

THE REVIEWS hub

"truly extraordinary"

British Theater Guide

Praised for her “immaculate coloratura” and “stage charm” (The Times, The Sunday Times), soprano Lucie Chartin has built a reputation for her radiant sound and musical intelligence.

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see+hear

concerts

Fri
Apr 3
2026
J.S. Bach
St Matthew Passion

Noord Nederlands Orkest, Geert-Jan Van Beijeren
Maarten Koningsberger
Rosanne van Sandwijk
Frans Fiselier
Leonhard Reso

Oosterpoort, Groningen
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Fri
Dec 11
2026
J.S. Bach
Christmas Oratorio

Irish Maroque Orchestra, Peter Whelan

Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin
Sat
Dec 12
2026
J.S. Bach
Christmas Oratorio

Irish Maroque Orchestra, Peter Whelan

St Peter's Church of Ireland, Drogheda
Thu
Jan 14
2027
G.F. Handel
Handel Glories

Shunske Sato & Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra

Marjan Kozina Hall, Ljubljana
Fri
Jan 22
2027
J.S. Bach
St Matthew Passion

Shunske Sato & Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra

Marjan Kozina Hall, Ljubljana
Sat
Dec 13
2025
J.S. Bach, W.A Mozart
Christmas Concert with Lucienne Renaudin-Vary

Gordan Nikolic & Nederlands Kamerorkest

Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Tue
Oct 14
2025
Pärt, Oestvolskaja and Azarova
Liberation of the Spirit

New European Ensemble

Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht
Wed
Feb 2
2022
G.F Handel
Alcina (Morgana)

- Cancelled due to Covid19

Tour with Opera North

Cond: Laurence Cummings
Regie: Tim Albery

Leeds Grand Theater
Mon
Dec 13
2021
J.S Bach
Christmas Oratorio

- Cancelled due to Covid19
Philharmonia Baroque, Richard Egarr

Bing Concert Hall, Stanford
Sun
Dec 12
2021
J.S Bach
Christmas Oratorio

- Cancelled due to Covid19
Philharmonia Baroque, Richard Egarr

Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
Thu
Aug 27
2020
W.A Mozart
Opera Gala

- Cancelled due to Covid19

Dutch Chamber Orchestra

Risto Joost (dir) | Laurence Dale (regie)

Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Wed
Apr 22
2020
Castello, Monteverdi and contemporaries
The Glories of Venice

- Cancelled due to Covid19
The Academy of Ancient Music, dir. Richard Egarr

Milton Court Concert Hall, London
Fri
Apr 3
2020
J.S Bach
St Matthew Passion

- Cancelled due to Covid19
Antwerp Symphonic Orchestra | dir. Richard Egarr

Elizabethzaal, Antwerpen

Intoxicating

It is a truth generally accepted that Cleopatra is a minx, and Lucie Chartin’s blonde-haired minx has a voice as intoxicating as your favourite cream liqueur.

The Opera Critic

knock out madscene

Lucie Chartin sweeps the floor with prejudices about 19th-century belcanto. Forget Bianca Castafiore, forget warbling. Top note, trill or melody: with Chartin everything flows perfectly from the madness with which Ophélie turns to suicide.

De VOlkskrant

captivating & truly moving

Lucie Chartin is captivating as Cleopatra; she brings real depth to the part. With a beautifully clear, bright voice she is more than equal to the challenging vocal demands of the role; her rendition of Cleopatra's aria 'Piangerò' is truly moving.

The Yorkshire Times

Utterly appalling

No no Mama, I said stop singing!!

Toddler MAgazine

exceptionally funny

Especially in Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen from Die Zauberflöte, soprano Lucie Chartin brings the house down. Her high notes during the mad scene are exceptionally funny.

Het Parool

richness of colour

A standout discovery in our compatriot Lucie Chartin, who not only commands Ophélie’s stratospheric top notes, but brings a richness of colour the role’s usual interpreters don’t always offer.

Forum Opera

true comédienne

Chartin proved herself a true comédienne.

NRC

dazzling & effortless

Chartin provides dazzling nimble vocal fireworks. She shines in acting and singing as the singing doll Olympia in Hoffmann's tales of Jacques Offenbach. Staggering with stiff limbs she warbles effortlessly. 'Je t'aime', the tasty love song of a distraught soprano by Isabelle Aboulker she sings partially suspended in the air.

The Yorkshire Times

shiveringly beautiful

In a particularly moving ending, Lucie Chartin performed a long and serene aria.  Shiveringly beautiful.

limburgs Dagblad

poignant

Anyone still harbouring doubts about the dramatic suitability of the baroque da capo aria need only to have heard Chartin in 'Piangerò la sorte mia'. The steel in her voice as she envisages her ghost tormenting her brother softened into a repeat of the opening even more poignant than before.

Classical Music Daily

dvds

2018

​OPERA2DAY
New European Ensemble
conducting: H. Schvartzman
stage direction: S. van Veggel

Quirijn De Lang, Hamlet
Lucie Chartin, Ophélie
Martina Prins, Gertrude
Martijn Sanders, Claudius
J.W. Schaafsma, Laërte

trailer

2017

OPERA2DAY
New European Ensemble
conducting: H. Schvartzman
stage direction: S. van Veggel

Woedy Woet, illusionist
Lucie Chartin, soprano
Christina Bitenc, soprano
Martina Prins, soprano
Violet Broersma, danser

trailer

2016

OPERA2DAY
Asko I Schönberg
Cappella Amsterdam
conducting: H. Schvartzman
stage direction: S. van Veggel​

Hannah Hoekstra, Mariken
Harry van der Kamp, Oom
Julian Podger, Moenen
Lucie Chartin, Ziel van Mariken
Jill Feldman, Tante
Michael Chance, Paus

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biography

Originally from southeastern France, the Franco-Dutch soprano first studied piano, flute, and musicology before continuing her vocal training in the Early Music Department of the Amsterdam Conservatory. She financed her studies by performing with Cappella Amsterdam both as a chorister and a soloist.

oratorio + concerts

Lucie has appeared with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra (Yannick Nézet-Séguin), the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century (Bach’s Missa Brevis), the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra (Marc Albrecht – St Matthew Passion), the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra (Christmas concerts), the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra (Peter Whelan – Opera Gala), l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (Daniël Reuss – Le Roi David), and the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra (Iseult – Le Vin Herbé).

She performed several times in the closing concerts of La Folle Journée in Nantes and Tokyo, notably in Haydn’s The Creation and Mendelssohn’s Paulus.
 She was featured twice as a soloist in the Netherlands Bach Society’s All of Bach recordings (Václav Luks). Her performance of Bach’s Coffee Cantata in particular has enjoyed wide success, with over 500,000 views on YouTube.

opera + theater

On the opera stage, Lucie Chartin has distinguished herself in demanding coloratura roles. Her Ophelia in Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet with OPERA2DAY was hailed as “the revelation of the evening”, praised for its “disturbing intensity” (Opera Today) and “astonishing flexibility” (Opera Magazine), leaving an impression “that lingers for days” (Brabants Cultureel).
 In Giulio Cesare in Egitto, her Cleopatra with Opera North was described as “electrifying” (MusicOMH), combining “impeccable coloratura” (The Times) with “infectious joy” (Opera Magazine).
 She also made a strong impression as Olympia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann with OPERA2DAY, praised for her “disarming ease” (Theaterkrant).

Her acting skills came to the fore when she performed the role of Katerina Cavalieri in Amadeus by Peter Shaffer at the Royal Theatre in The Hague, singing excerpts from the roles of Konstanze, the Countess, and the Queen of the Night. “Her stratospheric high notes, launched in the middle of an erotic scene, are irresistibly comic,” (Het Parool.)

She also performed at the Opera de Metz (Amour) and Pamina/Königin/Papagena for a Mini Zauberflöte with Shunske Sato and Ensemble Black Pencil. As a young talent she was invited to perform with the Dutch National Opera (Before Present) and as Königin der Nacht (Escales Lyriques).

break

The Covid-19 pandemic threw some sand in the cogs, leading to the cancellation of numerous engagements, including Morgana (Opera North, Laurence Cummings) and tours with Philharmonia Baroque in San Francisco, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Academy of Ancient Music in London, and the Irish Baroque Orchestra at Wigmore Hall. She took this opportunity to start her own design studio and to have a kid.

recent highlights

A few weeks after her return to the stage, she was invited to close the year at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw alongside trumpeter Lucienne Renaudin-Vary and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, resulting in several television recordings and broadcasts for Dutch radio.

She will soon be performing Bach's Christmas Oratorio with the Irish Baroque Orchestra (Peter Whelan), a virtuosic program of Handel arias as well as a couple of St Matthew Passion with the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra led by Shunske Sato.

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Bookings

Papageno Management
Nicolas Grienenberger