Brigitte Hool debuts on an international stage at the Milan Scala (Stroller in Manon,2006), and sings on the stages of the Opéra Comique in Paris, of Capitol of Toulouse, as well as the operas of Lyon, Lausanne, Marseille, Bordeaux, Nice, Tours, Avenches (La Bohème, Don Giovanni), at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Greece, at Bunka Kaikan of Tokyo, on tour in Japan, or on tour at Brazil, has Palermo, at the Roman Theater of Arles, at the Tonhalle in Zurich, at the Victoria Hall in Geneva, at the Avenches festival, at the festival of Verbier, at the Saint-Prex festival, at the NY Festival in Gstaad, among others.

 

There she plays the roles of Elisabetta Don Carlo VERDI,  Mimi, Musetta Bohemian PUCCINI, Fiordiligi Cosi fan wrestling MOZART, Rosina (original tone=mezzo) Barber of Siviglia ROSSINI, Micaëla Carmen BIZET, Margerita and Elena (both together) Mefistofele BOITO, Santuzza Cavalliera Rusticana MASCAGNI, and the title roles of Mireille GOUNOD (in period costume in the Roman Theater of Arles), Rusalka DVORAK and Aida VERDI, among others.

 

She sings with the conductors Stefano Ranzani, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, Paolo Arrivabeni, Aldo Sisillo, Carlo Palleschi, Ton Koopman, Claus Peter Flor, Ion Marin, Jérémie Rohrer, Maurizio Benini, Cyril Diederich, Samuel Jean, Kaspar Zehnder, Emmanuel Joël, Gilbert Bezzina, Benjamin Levy, Facundo Agudin, Sébastien Rouland, David Reiland, Olivier Holt, Benjamin Pioneer, Gérard Korsten, Dominique Trottein, as well as with the directors Giancarlo de Monaco, Laurent Pelly, Gilbert Blin, Jérome Savary, Dieter Kaegi, Simone Audermars, Omar Porras, Arnaud Bernard, Eric Vigié, Robert Bouvier, Bernard Pisani, Lapp & Simon, Claire Servais, Nicolas Joël, Francesco Ellero D'Artegna, among others.

 

While continuing her career as a singer, Brigitte Hool meets as author a great success with her first novel suspenseful, “Puccini loved him” (280 p., L’Âge d’Homme, 2016), praised by critics and a literary success in Switzerland. She talks about music experienced from the inside, about its sound, about the relationship between love and artistic inspiration with a historical background.

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The swiss and belgian soprano Brigitte Hool was born in Neuchâtel. After studying cello, she obtained two university titles in Letters (Art History, French) as well as in Journalism and two prizes of excellence (rewarding the best averages in Letters Werner Günther Prize and in Journalism Express Price) at Neuchâtel University. She also took courses in political science, logic and theology. Brigitte Hool was the founding director of the Choir of the University of Neuchâtel. She also directed the master's degree at the Neuchâtel Conservatory.

At the same time, and despite the administrative ban, Brigitte Hool acquired a diploma and virtuosity in singing (Neuchâtel Conservatory, Yves Senn class). She improved with Grace Bumbry (Lugano, Salzburg); by Mirella Freni (Modena) from whom she received a merit scholarship; by TVG Gopalakrishnan in Chennai (India); and Andrea Zese.

 

She is also a qualified traditional yoga teacher from the Yogakshemam School of T. K. Sribhashyam.

She received lessons from T.K. Sribhashyam particularly on sound, music, the relationship between yoga and singing, and on the life of an artist.

On the recommendation of T.K. Sribhashyam, she has been teaching yoga since 2008. She is the founding director of the UDYOGA School, in which she has already trained 9 traditional yoga teachers. Currently, she is training twenty-five teachers there (2022-2027). Surrounded by 9 assistants, she teaches traditional yoga, Ayurveda, Indian psychology and Indian philosophy.

 

She received the Trofemina Grand Prix as well as the Trofemina Prize cultural in Paris, which rewards one woman among 25 artists, sportswomen and creatives in management.

She received the Cultural Prize Vaudois.

She received a merit scholarship from "Centro Universale del Belcanto" by Mirella Freni who also has invited her to sing during the gala to celebrate her fiftieth career anniversary, and received from her a gold medal in memory.

She also won four culinary prizes four years in a row in a challenge sponsored by Carlo Crisci. ;)

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Brigitte Hool sings alongside Mirella Freni ( invited by her to open her farewell gala in Modena), Julia Gertseva, Lawrence Brownlee, Felicity Lott (his appearance on the showMusic to the heart at his side was very noticed), Gautier Hood, Jennifer Larmore ( her duet with her from Barcarolle “Belle nuit” remains a success on Youtube), Rubén Amoretti, Bernard Richter, Jean-François Lapointe , Alexia Voulgaridou, Laurent Naouri, Pietro Spagnoli, Helmut Deutch, Giancarlo Monsalve, James Vaughan, H.J. Lim, Frédéric Gindraux, Charles Ossola, Philippe Huttenlocher, Frédéric Longbois, Jean-François Vinciguerra, Marie-Ange Todorovich, Inva Mula,  Massimo Giordano, Beatrice Uria-Monzon, Benjamin Bernheim, Gustavo Porta, Carlo Ventre, François Le Roux...

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Brigitte Hool also regularly sings works in concert and oratorio repertoire. It was directed there by Ton Koopman, Johannes Schlaefli, Pascal Mayer, Roman Mayor, Ferran Gili-Millera, Hervé Klopfenstein, Florence Grivat, Emmanuel Junod, Théo Loosli, Georges-Henri Pantillon, Valentin Reymond, François Pantillon, SteveDunn, Luc Bagdassarian, Valentin Reymond, Gilbert Besençon, Philippe Morard.

She thus sang the Requiem by VERDI under the direction of Théo Loosli, François Pantillon, and Romain Mayor, at the Kultur-Casino in Bern, at the Palais des Congrès in Biel, in Bern, in Freiburg, in Neuchâtel, and at the Victoria Hall in Geneva.