About
Elsa Roux Chamoux is a French Soprano. She has been a member of the Opera National du Rhin’s Opera Studio in Strasbourg from September 2020 to June 2022. From 2018 to 2020, she has studied in the Opera Course at the London Guildhall School of Music and Drama in which she obtained her Master in Performance in 2018 under the guidance of Susan McCulloch and Ruby Philogene.
She has appeared in various Opera productions, including the roles of: La Soeur and La Servante in Regis Campo’s new commission La Petite Sirène (Opera de Nice), Rose in Delibes’ Lakmé (Opéra of Nice, France), Flora in Verdi’s La Traviata (Festival Nuits Lyriques of Marmande, France), Mrs Noe in Britten’s Noye’s Fludde (Opéra of Nice), Alto solo in Theodorakis’ Zorbas ballet (Eisencah Landestheater, Germany), Kilissa/Erste Erinys in Weingarnter’s Orestes (Erfurt Theater, Germany), Dinah in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti (Opera National du Rhin, France), L’Ecureuil/La Bergère/LaChatte/Le Pâtre in Ravel’s l’Enfant et les Sortilèges (Opera National du Rhin, France), Rosina in Rossini’s Barber of Seville (Clonter Opera, UK), Angelina in Rossini’s La Cenerentolina (Opera National du Rhin, France), Mme Prune and Mme Fraise in Messager’s Madame Chrysanthème (Opera National du Rhin, France), Hansel in Humperdinck’s Hansel und Gretel (Opera National du Rhin, France).
She also appeared as Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (GSMD, UK), La Regina, La Vecchietta and La Duchessa in Respighi’s La Bella Dormente nel bosco (GSMD, UK), Celia in Haydn’s La Fedelta Premiata (GSMD, UK), Sister Edgar in the new opera The Angel Esmeralda by Lliam Paterson (commission from Scottish Opera with the World Premiere at the GSMD in February 2020), Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Lyon, France), Cherubino in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (Manhattan Opera Studio, USA).
She has already won awards and been a finalist in several national and international competitions: 2nd Prize, Audience Prize, and Orchestra Prize at the Concours International de Chant de Mâcon (France), Finalist at the Capri Gold Voice (Capri, Italy), 2nd Prize at the Concours International de Chant de Canari (Corse, France), Semi Finalist at the International Voice Competition Hertogenbosch in Bois le Duc (Netherlands), 1st Prize at the Jacques Offenbach Grand Prix in Bad Ems (Germany), Finalist at the Vincerò World Singing Competition in Napoli (Italy), 2nd Grand Prize at the International Singing Competition Georges Liccioni in Angers (France), Jury Special Prize, OFQJ Prize, Social Network Prize in Opera category at Concours International de Chant de Marmande (France), Finalist in French Melodies category at Concours International de Chant de Marmande, Mady Mesplé Prize at the International Competition Bel Canto Vincenzo Bellini at Vendôme (France), Susan Longfield Award at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama of London (UK), Audience Prize at the Grand Competition Emma Calvé at Meyrueis (France), First Prize less than 22years old at the IX International Competition
“Renaissance” at Guymri (Armenia), First Prize at Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod at Llangollen (Wales), First Prize at the “Les Clés d’Or” Competition at Paris (France), Prize of the Best Young Talent at the International Competition Otto Edelman at Vienna (Austria).
She has been chosen to participate in the Brahms Promotion at the Académie Musicale Philippe Jaroussky for the season 2023-2024.
She was also selected for the 2023 Exzellenz Labor Oper program, directed by Hedwig Fassbender, in Weikersheim.
She has been laureate of the Cercle Richard Wagner (Strasbourg) for the Bayreuth bursary in 2023.
She has been noticed at the Festival Lyricorégra of Montréal, obtaining the Best International Singer bursary.
Elsa has participated in several masterclasses with Adrianne Pieczonka, John Fulljames, Vesselina Kasarova, Malcolm Walker, Christian Immler, Susan Bullock, Stéphane Degout, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Elaine Kidd, Edith Wiens, Mathieu Pordoy, David Gowland, Andrea Sanguinetti et Janet Perry.
But she does not have only one string to her bow: she also obtained her bachelor’s degree in Management in Paris (in e-learning) and practiced Rink-Hockey to a high level for more than 14 years in the men’s championship. She played for several years in the French women’s team, with which she was crowned
World Champion in 2012 in Brazil, and Vice-World Champion in 2014 in France. She nevertheless decided to retire in December 2015 to devote herself entirely to opera.
She has been nominated by Stephan Mösch, the well-known critic from the famous magazine Opernwelt, as “Oper des Jahres” 2023 in the category “Newcomer”, for her roles of Kilissa and 1st Erynis in Weingartner’s Oreste at Erfurt Theater in Germany.
