Récemment : Ruggiero (Alcina), Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), Piacere (Il Trionfo del tempo), Ramiro (La Finta Giardiniera) au Mainz Staatstheater.
En 2024 et 2025 : Fricka (Das Rheingold, Götterdämmerung, Die Walküre) et Jenny (Mahagonny) au Theater Basel, Idamante (Idomeneo), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Dinah (Trouble in Tahiti), Prince Orlofski (Die Fledermaus) au Luzerner Theater.
This season Solenn makes her debut in the part of Fricka in new productions of Das Rheingold and Die Walküre at Theater Basel.
After her debut in the part of Judith in Bartok’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle in 2022 Solenn’ Lavanant Linke interpreted Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier at the Luzerner Theater.
In 2025, she will return to Theater Basel for Jenny in Mahagonny. In Luzern she will sing in Die Zauberflöte.
In 2021-22 she joins the ensemble of the Luzerner Theater where she gave her highly successful debut in the part of Lucretia in a new production of Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia after having performed Cherubino in a new production Le Nozze di Figaro.
In Mainz she sang Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel and as Ramiro in Mozart’s La Finta Giardiniera.
In 2019 she made two role debuts in Lucerne: Donna Elvira in a new production Don Giovanni directed by Benedikt von Peter and Herodias in a new production Salomé directed by Herbert Fritsch and conducted by Clemens Heil. She also performed Muse / Niklausse in Les Contes d’Hoffmann and Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro in Mainz.
She made her debut at the Zurich opera in the title role of Charpentier’s Médée in 2017, and also debuted with great success as Cherubino in a new production of Le Nozze di Figaro at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich directed by Christoph Loy and conducted by Constantinos Carydis.
As a member of the ensemble of Theater Basel between 2009 and 2015 she performed Cherubino, Idamante in Idomeneo, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Kitchen Boy in Jenufa, Varvara in Katia Kabanova, Charlotte in Werther, Marguerite in Faust, Muse/Niklausse, the title role in Carmen directed by Calixto Bieito and the title role of Médée conducted by Andrea Marcon.
In Basel she also worked under directors such as David Bösch, Benedikt von Peter, Arpad Schilling, Elmar Goerden and Armin Petras.
She guested at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence as Ippolita in Cavalli’s Elena conducted by Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, at the Schwetzingen SWR Festival as Merione in Telemaco, at the Opéra de Lausanne as l’Enfant in L’Enfant et les Sortilèges and Penelope in Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, or at the Festival d’Ambronay as Ottavia in L’Incoronazione di Poppea.
She gave her operatic debut at the Theater Bern in 2007 as La prima tromba in La Prova d’orchestra and as Dorothée in Cendrillon. She returned to Bern as Smeraldine in L’Amour des trois oranges and sang Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Théâtre du Jorat in Mézière.
Besides many other concerts she sang Poulenc’s La voix humaine in Geneva, La voix humaine and Cyrus in Belshazzar in Zurich and the mezzo solo in Bernstein’s Jeremiah Symphony conducted by Dennis Russell Davies in both Budapest and Basel. She was heard at the prestigious Lucerne Festival, and went on tour through Switzerland with the Ensemble Mondrian performing chamber music.
Her first CD recording was as Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas conducted by Leonardo Garcia Alarcon. This recording was nominated in 2011for the MIDEM CLASSICAL AWARDS. Moreover, she took part in the CD production Camille Saint-Saëns: Music for the Prix de Rome under Hervé Niquet.
Solenn’ Lavanant Linke received her performance diploma from the Haute école de musique (HEMU) in Lausanne in the masterclass of her teacher Gary Magby. After successfully concluding her studies, she was employed by the Opera Studio of the Theater Basel in 2009, from which she was then taken over in the soloist ensemble.
