Mathilde Ortscheidt

Mathilde Ortscheidt won the 1st prize at the prestigious «Pietro Antonio Cesti» Baroque Opera Competition in 2023 and always and always driven by a desire to explore diverse repertoires. She is regularly invited to perform as a soloist with baroque ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants, Les Talens lyriques, the Poème Harmonique, the ensemble Correspondances or Il Caravaggio.

She has also appeared at the Innsbrucker Festwochen, at the Angers-Nantes, Rennes, Dijon and Compiègne Operas, at the Maison de Radio France and Théâtre de Caen, and at La Seine Musicale.

Very active in the field of contemporary music, she created the role of La Mère in Martin Matalon's Celui qui dit non, with the Orchestre Régional de Normandie and, as part of the Académie Ravel, two songs by pianist Jean-Baptiste Doulcet (cycle Glissements Progressifs du Désir).

After studying drama at the ESCA (École Supérieure de Comédiens par l'Alternance), she joined the Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris and Rosa Dominguez's class, while taking part in master classes with Margreet Honig, Regina Werner, Anne Le Bozec, Marcel Boone and Jennifer Larmore.

Mathilde Ortscheidt won in 2024 a Secial Prize at the Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition, the 1st Prize in the Cesti Competition at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik in 2023, was a semi-finalist at the 2023 Queen Elisabeth Competition, awarded a First Prize at the 2022 Canari International Lyric Singing Competition, was a winner of the Bellini Competition (Prix de la Ville de Vendôme) and a finalist in the annual Génération Opéra audition; In 2022 and 2023 she was also a prizewinner at the Fondation Royaumont.