Discover the 13 international artists selected for the 2026 Voice Residency!
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For its 28th edition, the Académie has selected 13 artists for the 2026 Voice Residency — ten singers, three pianists/vocal coaches, and one conductor — for this programme focused on improvement and openness.
The 2026 Voice Residency continues the tradition of singing-based residencies at the Académie since its inception in 1998. It is being held this year during a period that covers the end of rehearsals for the opera productions and the opening week of the Festival’s 78th edition. The Residency will thus provide the participants with a stimulating environment, visibility, and unique opportunities for artistic and interprofessional encounters.
The Académie received more than 450 applications for this residency. After a first selection, 82 applicants were invited to the final auditions (38 applicants in New York and Paris 44 applicants in Paris, in November 2025). The selection process has been designed to ensure the highest artistic quality as well as vocal diversity, backgrounds, and cultures, in order to achieve the fullest possible representation of the opera world.
Invited for the first time in 2023, Darrell Babidge, vocal coach and chair of the voice department at the Juilliard School, will be at the helm of this residency, offering the artists his listening skills and advice. In addition, the Académie is inviting the soprano Dorothea Röschmann to lead residency. The pianist and vocal coach Marine Thoreau La Salle, and the conductor Leonardo García-Alarcón, will complete this panel of mentoring artists.
The residency programme includes master classes; concerts programmed as part of Aix en juin; musical encounters organised with Passerelles, the cultural initiatives department of the Festival; and, in July, a professional audition, and two concerts during the Festival, including one with Cappella Mediterranea led by its musical director Leonardo García-Alarcón and the conductor in residence Guillemette Daboval.
The Voice Residency is supported by Société Générale Foundation main corporate patron, Adami, and Caisse des Dépôts mécénat
The following artists have been selected for the 2026 edition of the Voice Residency:
Conductor
Arianna Radaelli (Italy)
Adami, supports and participates in the training, promotion and career development of a new generation of women conductors.
Soprano
Isobel Anthony (United-States)
Elizabeth Hanje (Tanzania)
Kathleen O'Mara (United-States)
Mezzo-soprano
Madeleine Bazola-Minori (France)
Tivoli Treloar (United-States)
Tenor
lan-Marcus Bjørsvik (Norway)
Misael Corralejo (Mexico)
Bass-baritone
Joe Chalmers (United Kingdom)
Irakli Pkhaladze (Georgia)
Max Latarjet (France)
Pianists and conductor
Zhifeng Hu (Germany)
Rafe Schaberg (United-States)
Pierre Venissac (France)
