Biography

After completing successful vocal studies in France, the French lyric soprano Zoé Brocard earned her Master’s degree in Opera Performance in 2021 at the University of Music and Performing Arts (HMDK) in Nuremberg, where she studied with Prof. Susanne Kelling and Brigitte Geller. She received further musical inspiration from Tobias Truniger, Marcello Amaral, André Gold, Susanna Klovsky, Talia Or, and through masterclasses with Brigitte Fassbaender.

On the opera stage, Zoé Brocard appeared in 2023 at the Gärtnerplatz State Theatre as Laura (Verdi, Luisa Miller), in 2022 as Taumännchen and Sandmännchen (Humperdinck, Hänsel und Gretel), and as the Page (Verdi, Rigoletto).
At the University of Music in Nuremberg, she sang the role of Comacho in Telemann’s Don Quichotte at the Wedding of Comacho. She was also cast as Rossane (Handel, Alessandro) at the Bamberg State Theatre, as the 7th Sibyl (Orff, De temporum fine comoedia) at Andechs Monastery and the Meistersinger Hall in Nuremberg, and as the Second Boy (Mozart, The Magic Flute) at the Nuremberg State Opera.
She gained her first operatic stage experience at the Conservatoire de Paris as Rosina (Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia) and as Sesto (Handel, Giulio Cesare).

As a sought-after concert soloist, she sang, among other performances, Bach’s St Matthew Passion in 2024 at the Herkulessaal in the Munich Residenz, works by Haydn and Beethoven in 2021 at the Amberg Theatre, the Munich Gasteig, and in Würzburg, as well as the role of Marguerite from Gounod’s Faust at the Serenadenhof in Nuremberg with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra.

Since 2022, she has been a member of the opera chorus at the Gärtnerplatz State Theatre. She also regularly performs with the Bach Choir (conducted by Ruben Dubrovsky), singing works such as the Christmas Oratorio and David Lang’s Little Match Girl Passion (conducted by Yuval Weinberg).
In 2019, she founded her own a cappella septet “Vagabondes,” with which she recorded the CD Caméléon and performed at various festivals (including La Cité de la Voix, Celles-sur-Belles, and Boucard).

Before turning to singing, Zoé completed a Master’s degree in Human Resources (BVL) at CIFFOP and worked as a consultant.