Biography
Belgian-English soprano Juliette Allen graduated in 2015 from Liège Royal Conservatoire, where she worked with Helène Bernardy and was awarded a Concertist Diploma at Paris École Normale Alfred Cortot in 2017, where her vocal teacher was Daniel Ottevaere. The same year, she was invited in 2017 to join the Paris based company « Opera Fuoco », created by David Stern.
Last year, she was a finalist of the Mâcon International Competition « Les symphonies d’automne ».
Juliette Allen caught the public’s attention in her performances of the title role of Les aventures de Pinocchio (Lucia Ronchetti) with the well known Ensemble Intercontemporain at Rouen Opera, Paris Philharmonic and festival « Musica » Strasbourg in 2017. She premiered the Italian version of the work at the Roma Europa festival in collaboration with Rome Opera in November 2018. The same season, she sang the main female part Berengera in Richard Löwenherz (G. Ph. Telemann) at Magdeburg Theatre, Germany in March 2018, Dircé in Médée (L. Cherubini) at Rouen Opera, and Louise in Les mousquetaires au couvent (L. Varney) in Lille and Brussels.
She continued to tour Pinocchio (Lucia Ronchetti) during 2018-2019 season at Nantes/Angers/Rennes Operas and Tolentino, Macerata, & Rome, Italy. She also toured in France as Flora in the world creation Qui a peur du loup?/Macbeth written by composer Aurélien Dumont and staged by Matthieu Roy, in a collaboration with Ars Nova Ensemble and IRCAM. She was Toybe in The Golden Bride (Rumshinsky) at Örebro Concert Hall with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra conducted by David Stern.
The 2019-2020 season was mainly dedicated to the diptych Qui a peur du loup ?/ Macbeth with shows taking place at the Opera of Bordeaux, Opera of Nancy, and in Paris for the ouverture of IRCAM’s festival. One could also hear her as Maggie in Lady in the Dark by Kurt Weill in February with Opera Fuoco Company.
In November 2020-2021 was supposed to be the end of the Qui a peur du loup?/ Macbeth tour, but that ended up being canceled due to the COVID-19. In March Juliette was meant to debut as Eurilla in Cimarosa Il pittor parigino at the « Mc2 » in Grenoble but it was canceled due to Covid. She performed a live recital stream at the Midzik sessions of La Ferme du Biéreau (BE) with Belgian pianist Virgile Van Essche.
In 2022-2023 Juliette sang the rôle of « The student » in Sivan Eldar’s opera Like Flesh (winner of the Fedora Prize) at Opera de Lille, Opera de Montpellier and Opera de Nancy. In February Juliette created Whatspop by Aurélien Dumont with Ensemble Cairn and in April and June she was Violet in the French Premiere of Tom Coult’s and Alice Birch’s Opera Violet in Paris with « Ensemble Maja » conducted by Bianca Chillemi and staged by Jacques Osinski.
This summer Juliette sang the part of Rosina in Rossini’s Barber of Seville at the festival « Les Estivales Lyriques de Wissant » and took part in multiple recital of English Song alongside pianist Virgile Van Essche.
Next season Juliette is looking forward to singing the role of Violet again in Paris, a series of recitals with her Lied duo partner Virgile Van Essche in Belgium and also concerts with Opera Fuoco in Paris. She is also taking part in a new show, Le Voyage de Charlie, targeted at young audiences.
She has worked and performed with prestigious conductors and musicians such as Maxime Pascal, David Stern, Hervé Niquet, Nicolas André, Chloé Dufresne, Bianca Chillemi as well as renowned stage directors : Mariame Clément, Jean-Yves Ruf, Jacques Osinski, Michael McCarthy, Matthieu Roy. She frequently collaborates with living composers : Lucia Ronchetti, Aurélien Dumont, Sivan Eldar and with various ensembles such as :Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Ars Nova, Ensemble Cairn, Ensemble Maja, Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, …