For 50 years, the Nuits du Château de la Moutte have been bringing Saint-Tropez to life in the moonlight, between the courtyard, the palm grove and the Canebiers beach, with concerts of classical, baroque, jazz and world music. A magical rendezvous under the stars.
Great voices on the beach
A gala evening to celebrate our 50th anniversary, in the magic of the setting sun overlooking the Mediterranean: the Plage des Canebiers, with its exceptional natural scenery, welcomes three singers for the first time. Brilliant and elegant, acclaimed on the world's greatest stages, they will sing the most famous and popular pages of the operatic repertoire.
Nadine Sierra (Soprano)
"Her pure, incisive and delicate voice radiates tenderness in the middle register, while her golden high register floats to the very limits of audibility...". - Le Monde
Praised for the beauty of her voice, her flawless technique and her great musical sensitivity, Nadine Sierra is today considered one of opera's greatest hopefuls. Winner of the Richard Tucker Award in 2017, in 2018 she received the Beverly Sills Artist Award from the Metropolitan Opera. After a series of acclaimed debuts at the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala in Milan, the Paris Opera and the Berlin Staatsoper, she is rapidly establishing herself as a must-see artist at the world's greatest opera houses. Her debut album, There's a Place for Us, was released in 2018 by Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Music, followed by a second opus, Made For Opera, in 2022.
The 2024-2025 season opens with her debut at the Wiener Staatsoper in the title role of Romeo and Juliet. She will then return to the Metropolitan Opera as Gilda in Rigoletto. Nadine Sierra will also be very much in evidence at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu, where she will interpret Violetta (La Traviata), Amina (La Sonnambula) and Maria (West Side Story) under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel. She will also appear as Violetta at Madrid's Teatro Real, as Manon at the Opéra de Paris and as Juliette at Naples' Teatro di San Carlo.
Highlights of the previous season included her debut at the Royal Opera House as Adina (L'elisir d'amore), then as Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), before touring Japan with the Royal Opera company in Rigoletto, conducted by Antonio Pappano. She has also played Juliet (Romeo and Juliet) at the Met, Violetta at the Opéra de Paris, and made her debut in Luisa Miller at the Teatro di San Carlo.
Nadine Sierra has appeared in recital and concert with prestigious orchestras: the Berliner Philharmoniker under Gustavo Dudamel, the Philadelphia Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia with Antonio Pappano. She has also given recitals at the Palm Beach Opera, Teatro Real, Carnegie Hall, Teatro di San Carlo, Dortmund Festival, Grand Théâtre de Genève, and Kansas City (Harriman-Jewell series). She also joins Andrea Bocelli on his 30th anniversary tour of Europe and North America, and will meet him again in December 2024 at Madison Square Garden in New York and the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida.
Highlights of recent seasons include Lucia at La Fenice, Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Flavia (Eliogabalo), Pamina (The Magic Flute) and Norina (Don Pasquale) at the Paris Opera; Zerlina and Ilia (Idomeneo) at the Metropolitan Opera; Juliette, Lucia, Musetta, Pamina and the Countess at the San Francisco Opera. In 2016, she caused a sensation at La Scala in Rigoletto alongside Leo Nucci: the duet received such a standing ovation that she was called back for an encore - a rare event since Toscanini.
She has also performed at Carnegie Hall, Arena di Verona, Vienna's Musikverein, the Tanglewood and Ravinia Festivals, the Dallas Opera, and New York's Park Avenue Armory. She has twice had the honor of singing for the sitting justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Throughout her young career, Nadine Sierra has won numerous prestigious awards. To this day, she remains the youngest winner of both the Marilyn Horne Foundation Vocal Competition and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, as recounted by Nick Romeo in his book Driven: Six Incredible Musical Journeys (2011), an entire chapter of which is devoted to her victory in the finals. In 2010, she also won first prizes in the George London, Gerda Lissner and Loren Zachary competitions, as well as a grant from the Richard Tucker Music Foundation. In 2013, she won first prize in the Neue Stimmen, Caballé and Veronica Dunne international competitions, as well as a Career Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation.
She fell in love with opera when she discovered La Bohème on VHS, and began singing lessons at the age of six in Florida. After an early professional debut with the Palm Beach Opera, she continued her studies at Mannes College of the New School for Music, before joining the Adler Fellowship Program at San Francisco Opera, where she developed a lasting artistic relationship with the company.
Nadine Sierra has been featured in Vogue, Nylon, Bon Appétit, Opera News, and on the cover of Classical Singer magazine. Very active on social networks, she maintains a direct link with her subscribers, regularly replying to their messages, comments and questions.
Marine Chagnon (Mezzo-soprano)
French mezzo-soprano Marine Chagnon is a member of the Opéra national de Paris, where she has already distinguished herself in the title role of L'Enfant et les Sortilèges, as well as in those of Tisbe (La Cenerentola), Dorothée (Cendrillon) and Zerlina (Don Giovanni).
At a gala concert at the Palais Garnier conducted by Gustavo Dudamel and broadcast on Arte, she impressed with her striking interpretation of Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti, revealing her versatility across different musical styles and eras. This season, Marine Chagnon returns to the Paris stage in Offenbach's Les Brigands, directed by Barrie Kosky and conducted by Stefano Montanari, in the role of Cicinella; she also plays Giovanna in Rigoletto conducted by Domingo Hindoyan, Javotte in Manon conducted by Pierre Dumoussaud, and Thibault in Don Carlos conducted by Simone Young.
Nominated in the "Révélation Lyrique" category at the 2023 Victoires de la Musique Classique awards, Marine Chagnon studied drama and modern jazz dance alongside her vocal training. She obtained her Master's degree from the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris before joining the Académie de l'Opéra national de Paris. She soon acquired solid stage experience, making her debut in the role of Euridice (Monteverdi's L'Orfeo) at the Opéra de Dijon.
At ease in a wide range of repertoires, Marine Chagnon alternates between early music and contemporary creations. In Scarlatti's La Giuditta at the Festival de la Grange au Lac with the ensemble Les Accents, critics praised the "ardent, sensitive warmth of her timbre" (Bachtrack). Her portrayal of Poppea in Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea with Le Poème Harmonique, performed at the Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet and the Grand Théâtre de Dijon, was hailed as "sensually radiant, disarmingly refined" (Forum Opéra).
Marine Chagnon has already tackled a wide repertoire of roles, including Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro), Lola (Cavalleria Rusticana), Annio (La Clemenza di Tito), the Child, the Chinese Cup and the Cat (L'Enfant et les Sortilèges), Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande), Nancy (Albert Herring), the Second Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Lucilla (La Scala di Seta), Kate Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Flora (La Traviata), La Périchole (Offenbach) and Venus in Monteverdi's Il ballo delle ingrate.
She has benefited from the advice of leading figures of the lyric art in masterclasses, including Ludovic Tézier, Anne Sofie von Otter, Barbara Hannigan and Mireille Delunsch. She has received numerous awards, including the Prix Jeune Espoir at the Concours International de Mâcon, the Prix Spécial du Jury at the Concours International de Canari, and two prizes awarded by the Opéra national de Paris: the Prix de l'AROP and the Prix Dauphin du Verna from the Fondation de France.
Confirming her taste for rare and sensitive repertoires, Marine Chagnon inaugurates her discography with a critically acclaimed recording, Ljus, a collection of Swedish melodies from the XXᵉ century released by Mirare, in collaboration with pianist Joséphine Ambroselli.
Michael Fabiano (Tenor)
Born in Montclair, New Jersey, this Italian-born tenor attended the University of Michigan and Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts.
A recipient of the 2014 Beverly Sills Artist Award and the 2014 Richard Tucker Award, he was the first singer to win both awards in the same year.
Among his major performances, he sang Don José in Carmen at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence under Dimitri Tcherniakov, the title role in Poliuto at the Glyndebourne Festival and made his debut as Calaf in Turandot under Ai Weiwei in Rome. He has also performed extensively at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, Staatsoper Berlin, Teatro Liceu, Staatsoper Vienna, Lyric Opera Chicago, Royal Opera House London, Teatro alla Scala Milan, Teatro San Carlo Naples and Opéra de Paris.
Recently, he has been Calaf in Turandot and Des Grieuf in Massenet's Manon at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu and the Vienna Staatsoper, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at the San Francisco Opera, Don Jose in Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera and the Vienna Stastsoper, Rodolfo in Luisa Miller at Naples' Teatro San Carlo, Riccardo in Un Ballo in maschera at the San Francisco Opera, Manrico in Il Trovatore at the Royal Opera House.
Michael is one of the founders of ArtSmart, a non-profit organization offering free music lessons with professional artists as mentors to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Michal Biel (Piano)
Pianist Michał Biel is a graduate of the Juilliard School in New York, where he studied with Brian Zeger, Margo Garrett, Jonathan Feldman and J.J. Penna. He also studied with Eytan Pessen at the Opera Academy of the Grand Theatre of the National Opera in Warsaw, and with Andrzej Jasiński and Grzegorz Biegas at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice.
Michał has performed in the world's most famous concert halls, such as London's Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, Berlin's Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall and New York's Alice Tully Hall, as well as in recital on the stages of the most prestigious opera theaters, including Frankfurt Opera, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Opéra national du Rhin, Opéra national de Bordeaux, Opéra de Lille, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia and the Grand Theatre of the National Opera in Warsaw.
Michał is particularly well known for the recordings of two albums: the first, "Farewells", with Jakub Józef Orliński, which was nominated for the Fryderyki Award in the Best Polish Album Abroad category, and the second, the "Kraina" album with soprano Alexandra Nowakowski, featuring songs by Polish composers.
A gala evening to celebrate our 50th anniversary, in the magic of the setting sun overlooking the Mediterranean: the Plage des Canebiers, with its exceptional natural scenery, welcomes three singers for the first time. Brilliant and elegant, acclaimed on the world's greatest stages, they will sing the most famous and popular pages of the operatic repertoire.
Nadine Sierra (Soprano)
"Her pure, incisive and delicate voice radiates tenderness in the middle register, while her golden high register floats to the very limits of audibility...". - Le Monde
Praised for the beauty of her voice, her flawless technique and her great musical sensitivity, Nadine Sierra is today considered one of opera's greatest hopefuls. Winner of the Richard Tucker Award in 2017, in 2018 she received the Beverly Sills Artist Award from the Metropolitan Opera. After a series of acclaimed debuts at the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala in Milan, the Paris Opera and the Berlin Staatsoper, she is rapidly establishing herself as a must-see artist at the world's greatest opera houses. Her debut album, There's a Place for Us, was released in 2018 by Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Music, followed by a second opus, Made For Opera, in 2022.
The 2024-2025 season opens with her debut at the Wiener Staatsoper in the title role of Romeo and Juliet. She will then return to the Metropolitan Opera as Gilda in Rigoletto. Nadine Sierra will also be very much in evidence at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu, where she will interpret Violetta (La Traviata), Amina (La Sonnambula) and Maria (West Side Story) under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel. She will also appear as Violetta at Madrid's Teatro Real, as Manon at the Opéra de Paris and as Juliette at Naples' Teatro di San Carlo.
Highlights of the previous season included her debut at the Royal Opera House as Adina (L'elisir d'amore), then as Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), before touring Japan with the Royal Opera company in Rigoletto, conducted by Antonio Pappano. She has also played Juliet (Romeo and Juliet) at the Met, Violetta at the Opéra de Paris, and made her debut in Luisa Miller at the Teatro di San Carlo.
Nadine Sierra has appeared in recital and concert with prestigious orchestras: the Berliner Philharmoniker under Gustavo Dudamel, the Philadelphia Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia with Antonio Pappano. She has also given recitals at the Palm Beach Opera, Teatro Real, Carnegie Hall, Teatro di San Carlo, Dortmund Festival, Grand Théâtre de Genève, and Kansas City (Harriman-Jewell series). She also joins Andrea Bocelli on his 30th anniversary tour of Europe and North America, and will meet him again in December 2024 at Madison Square Garden in New York and the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida.
Highlights of recent seasons include Lucia at La Fenice, Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Flavia (Eliogabalo), Pamina (The Magic Flute) and Norina (Don Pasquale) at the Paris Opera; Zerlina and Ilia (Idomeneo) at the Metropolitan Opera; Juliette, Lucia, Musetta, Pamina and the Countess at the San Francisco Opera. In 2016, she caused a sensation at La Scala in Rigoletto alongside Leo Nucci: the duet received such a standing ovation that she was called back for an encore - a rare event since Toscanini.
She has also performed at Carnegie Hall, Arena di Verona, Vienna's Musikverein, the Tanglewood and Ravinia Festivals, the Dallas Opera, and New York's Park Avenue Armory. She has twice had the honor of singing for the sitting justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Throughout her young career, Nadine Sierra has won numerous prestigious awards. To this day, she remains the youngest winner of both the Marilyn Horne Foundation Vocal Competition and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, as recounted by Nick Romeo in his book Driven: Six Incredible Musical Journeys (2011), an entire chapter of which is devoted to her victory in the finals. In 2010, she also won first prizes in the George London, Gerda Lissner and Loren Zachary competitions, as well as a grant from the Richard Tucker Music Foundation. In 2013, she won first prize in the Neue Stimmen, Caballé and Veronica Dunne international competitions, as well as a Career Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation.
She fell in love with opera when she discovered La Bohème on VHS, and began singing lessons at the age of six in Florida. After an early professional debut with the Palm Beach Opera, she continued her studies at Mannes College of the New School for Music, before joining the Adler Fellowship Program at San Francisco Opera, where she developed a lasting artistic relationship with the company.
Nadine Sierra has been featured in Vogue, Nylon, Bon Appétit, Opera News, and on the cover of Classical Singer magazine. Very active on social networks, she maintains a direct link with her subscribers, regularly replying to their messages, comments and questions.
Marine Chagnon (Mezzo-soprano)
French mezzo-soprano Marine Chagnon is a member of the Opéra national de Paris, where she has already distinguished herself in the title role of L'Enfant et les Sortilèges, as well as in those of Tisbe (La Cenerentola), Dorothée (Cendrillon) and Zerlina (Don Giovanni).
At a gala concert at the Palais Garnier conducted by Gustavo Dudamel and broadcast on Arte, she impressed with her striking interpretation of Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti, revealing her versatility across different musical styles and eras. This season, Marine Chagnon returns to the Paris stage in Offenbach's Les Brigands, directed by Barrie Kosky and conducted by Stefano Montanari, in the role of Cicinella; she also plays Giovanna in Rigoletto conducted by Domingo Hindoyan, Javotte in Manon conducted by Pierre Dumoussaud, and Thibault in Don Carlos conducted by Simone Young.
Nominated in the "Révélation Lyrique" category at the 2023 Victoires de la Musique Classique awards, Marine Chagnon studied drama and modern jazz dance alongside her vocal training. She obtained her Master's degree from the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris before joining the Académie de l'Opéra national de Paris. She soon acquired solid stage experience, making her debut in the role of Euridice (Monteverdi's L'Orfeo) at the Opéra de Dijon.
At ease in a wide range of repertoires, Marine Chagnon alternates between early music and contemporary creations. In Scarlatti's La Giuditta at the Festival de la Grange au Lac with the ensemble Les Accents, critics praised the "ardent, sensitive warmth of her timbre" (Bachtrack). Her portrayal of Poppea in Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea with Le Poème Harmonique, performed at the Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet and the Grand Théâtre de Dijon, was hailed as "sensually radiant, disarmingly refined" (Forum Opéra).
Marine Chagnon has already tackled a wide repertoire of roles, including Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro), Lola (Cavalleria Rusticana), Annio (La Clemenza di Tito), the Child, the Chinese Cup and the Cat (L'Enfant et les Sortilèges), Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande), Nancy (Albert Herring), the Second Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Lucilla (La Scala di Seta), Kate Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Flora (La Traviata), La Périchole (Offenbach) and Venus in Monteverdi's Il ballo delle ingrate.
She has benefited from the advice of leading figures of the lyric art in masterclasses, including Ludovic Tézier, Anne Sofie von Otter, Barbara Hannigan and Mireille Delunsch. She has received numerous awards, including the Prix Jeune Espoir at the Concours International de Mâcon, the Prix Spécial du Jury at the Concours International de Canari, and two prizes awarded by the Opéra national de Paris: the Prix de l'AROP and the Prix Dauphin du Verna from the Fondation de France.
Confirming her taste for rare and sensitive repertoires, Marine Chagnon inaugurates her discography with a critically acclaimed recording, Ljus, a collection of Swedish melodies from the XXᵉ century released by Mirare, in collaboration with pianist Joséphine Ambroselli.
Michael Fabiano (Tenor)
Born in Montclair, New Jersey, this Italian-born tenor attended the University of Michigan and Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts.
A recipient of the 2014 Beverly Sills Artist Award and the 2014 Richard Tucker Award, he was the first singer to win both awards in the same year.
Among his major performances, he sang Don José in Carmen at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence under Dimitri Tcherniakov, the title role in Poliuto at the Glyndebourne Festival and made his debut as Calaf in Turandot under Ai Weiwei in Rome. He has also performed extensively at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, Staatsoper Berlin, Teatro Liceu, Staatsoper Vienna, Lyric Opera Chicago, Royal Opera House London, Teatro alla Scala Milan, Teatro San Carlo Naples and Opéra de Paris.
Recently, he has been Calaf in Turandot and Des Grieuf in Massenet's Manon at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu and the Vienna Staatsoper, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at the San Francisco Opera, Don Jose in Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera and the Vienna Stastsoper, Rodolfo in Luisa Miller at Naples' Teatro San Carlo, Riccardo in Un Ballo in maschera at the San Francisco Opera, Manrico in Il Trovatore at the Royal Opera House.
Michael is one of the founders of ArtSmart, a non-profit organization offering free music lessons with professional artists as mentors to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Michal Biel (Piano)
Pianist Michał Biel is a graduate of the Juilliard School in New York, where he studied with Brian Zeger, Margo Garrett, Jonathan Feldman and J.J. Penna. He also studied with Eytan Pessen at the Opera Academy of the Grand Theatre of the National Opera in Warsaw, and with Andrzej Jasiński and Grzegorz Biegas at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice.
Michał has performed in the world's most famous concert halls, such as London's Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, Berlin's Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall and New York's Alice Tully Hall, as well as in recital on the stages of the most prestigious opera theaters, including Frankfurt Opera, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Opéra national du Rhin, Opéra national de Bordeaux, Opéra de Lille, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia and the Grand Theatre of the National Opera in Warsaw.
Michał is particularly well known for the recordings of two albums: the first, "Farewells", with Jakub Józef Orliński, which was nominated for the Fryderyki Award in the Best Polish Album Abroad category, and the second, the "Kraina" album with soprano Alexandra Nowakowski, featuring songs by Polish composers.
Opening times
Opening times
On 13 August 2025
- 21:00
