“The Swiss soprano Léonie Renaud commands the stage as Musetta with her clear soprano and strong acting skills.” (February 2026 – Kulturtipp)
…likewise Léonie Renaud (Elizabeth), a soprano with solid lower register and dazzling high notes, who is also an excellent actress. (Forum Opéra)
After obtaining a piano diploma at HEMU in Lausanne, Swiss soprano Léonie Renaud pursued vocal studies at the Bern University of the Arts in the class of Janet Perry. During her studies, she received numerous scholarships and foundation awards.
For one season, she was a young artist at CNIPAL in Marseille, where she benefited from the artistic guidance of personalities such as Patricia Petibon and Edith Mathis. She also received artistic input from Delphine Gillot, Paolo Vaglieri and Nathalie Spinosi.
She won a special prize at the Spoleto International Competition (Italy) performing Gilda in Rigoletto, and the 3rd Prize at the Paris Opera Awards.
After appearing as Frasquita in Carmen at the Bregenz Festival in 2018, she was reinvited the following year for Rigoletto and Don Quichotte, two new productions released on DVD by Unitel with the Wiener Symphoniker under Enrique Mazzola and Daniel Cohen.
She made her debut at the Grand Theatre in Shanghai as Marie in La Fille du Régiment alongside Alessandro Corbelli. She performed Sophie in Werther in Metz, Massy and Reims (broadcast on France 3). At Opéra de Lausanne, she appeared as Maria Luisa (La Belle de Cadix) and Pauline (La Vie parisienne).
Her roles also include Najade (Ariadne auf Naxos) in Toulon and Lucerne, Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Blondchen (Die Abduction from the Seraglio), Marzelline (Fidelio), and Eurydice in Berlioz’s version of Orphée et Eurydice in Metz. In 2024, she was invited by TOBS! to perform Galatea in Acis and Galatea.
Léonie Renaud has worked with conductors such as Antonino Fogliani, Jordan de Souza, David Reiland, Paolo Arrivabeni, Thomas Rösner, Franco Trinca, Kaspar Zehnder and Facundo Agudin. She performs at numerous prestigious festivals and was invited to Montreal for a series of concerts as part of the Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques.
She performed at the Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy in La Belle Hélène and recently sang under Victorien Vanoosten in a new production of Pelléas et Mélisande.
She was invited to create the contemporary opera Der herzlose Riese with the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra under David Niemann, performing the title role.
Equally at ease in opera and oratorio repertoire, she performs major symphonic works such as Les Nuits d’été (Berlioz), Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, and Haydn’s The Creation, notably with the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra.
Her upcoming engagements include Musetta (La Bohème), Ein deutsches Requiem (Brahms), Stabat Mater (Dvořák), Coronation Mass (Mozart), Harmoniemesse (Haydn) with OCL, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.
Her debut trio album “Secret Songs” with Damien Bachmann (clarinet) and Christian Chamorel (piano) was released at the end of 2025 on the Indésens Calliope Records label.