French mezzo-soprano Ludmila Schwartzwalder studied with Brigitte Balleys at the HEMU in Lausanne and graduated in 2021.
At the Opéra de Lausanne, she has appeared in Christiné's Dédé (Maryse), Mozart's Così fan tutte (Dorabella, HEMU co-production), Handel's Alcina (Oberto), and Viardot's Cendrillon (Armelinde). She created the title role in Crausaz's Le Chat botté (Opéra des Champs) and played Cidippe in Desmarest's Vénus & Adonis (L'Arpa festante), and the 2nd witch in Purcell's Dido & Aeneas (Ouverture Opéra). She will portray Siebel in Faust in November with Opéra du Rhône in Wallis.
Being also a concert and oratorio soloist, she sang among others Bach’s Passions with the Orchestra of the 18th Century under the baton of Daniel Reuss. She is also a member of the self-managed Ensemble Diaphane, and part of the duo Skogar with pianist Pilar Benavides Campini, with whom she won the 2021 Fauré-Séverac prize at the Concours international de mélodies françaises de Toulouse.
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