The French-German soprano Camille Schnoor was born in Nice. Praised for her “stupendous acting and powerful, fascinating singing” (FAZ), she received the Bavarian Sponsorship Award for Performing Arts in 2020 and won the international competition Vokal Genial in Munich in 2013. A critics’ poll in the major German newspaper “Die Welt” nominated her 2016 as both “Best Singer” and “Best Young Singer”.

In the 2025/26 season, Camille Schnoor will make important role debuts in the title role of Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane at the Opéra National du Rhin and as Desdemona (Otello) at the Heidenheim Opera Festival. She will also be heard at Hong Kong Opera as Micaëla (Carmen) and in Limoges as the Foreign Princess (Rusalka). On the concert stage, she will sing Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem at Opéra de Marseille and Mozart’s Requiem with the Munich Symphony Orchestra in the Herkulessaal there, among others.

In the summers of 2024 and 2025, she appeared on the French television program “Musiques en fête” from the Chorégies d’Orange with excerpts from Madama Butterfly, La bohème, and Turandot.

Highlights of past seasons include her debut at the Bayreuth Festival in Parsifal under Pablo Heras-Casado, her house debuts at the Opéra de Lille as Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus) and at the Opéra National de Bordeaux, as well as at the Opéra Comique in Paris with the world premiere of Les Sentinelles, broadcast on Arte Concert. She also sang a concert with works by Wagner and Saint-Saens with the Orchestre Colonne at the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Foreign Princess (Rusalka) at Opéra de Marseille, Hanna Glawari (The Merry Widow) at Opéra de Nice, Ciò-Ciò-San (Madama Butterfly) in Limoges, Rouen, and Vichy, the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos in Limoges and at the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest, Mimì (La bohème) in Munich, Aachen, and Klosterneuburg, her Elbphilharmonie debut with Schumann’s last ballads under Laurence Equilbey, and her concert debut in the role of Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier) in Geneva.

In 2019, she made her role debut as Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) at Bergen Opera in Norway and her house debut at the Opéra National de Lorraine in the role of Hilda in Sigurd by Reyer. Her role debut as Ciò-Ciò-San (Madama Butterfly) in 2018 at the Opéra de Limoges and the Opéra de Rouen Normandie was highly praised by both the audience and the press, and the production was broadcast several times on French television.

From 2016 to 2023, Camille Schnoor was one of the leading soloists at the State Theater Gärtnerplatz in Munich, where she sang numerous leading roles in her repertoire, including Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Mimì (La bohème), Tatyana (Eugene Onegin), Hanna Glawari (The Merry Widow), and Antonia and Giulietta (Les contes d’Hoffmann).

She has worked with conductors such as Pablo Heras-Casado, Frédéric Chaslin, Christian Arming, Laurence Equilbey, Daniel Kawka, and Erik Nielson, and with directors such as Stefano Poda, Laurent Pelly, Joan Anton Rechi, Michel Fau, and Josef E. Köpplinger.

Her first solo album, Les Âmes Naturelles, was released in 2022 on the Klarthe label. The live recording of Parsifal in Bayreuth was released in 2024 by Deutsche Grammophon on both CD and BluRay.

Camille Schnoor completed her music studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (CNSM) as a concert pianist before studying vocal performance in Paris and Maastricht. Her first opera roles were Luisa (Luisa Miller), Marie (The Bartered Bride), Maria (West Side Story), and Agathe (Der Freischütz), as well as Verdi’s Messa da Requiem in the ensemble of Aachen Theater.