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

During the 2026/27 season, Camille Schnoor will make her role and house debut as Giuditta (Lehár) at the Opéra de Lausanne. She will sing Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder and Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Marko Lettonja, make her role debut as Manon in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut in a new production by Oliver Mears at the Opéra de Nice, and return to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony for a French tour beginning at the Salle Gaveau in Paris, together with Victor Julien-Laferrière and the Orchestre Consuelo.

In the 2025/26 season, Camille Schnoor made a highly successful role debut as Heliane in Korngold’s masterpiece Das Wunder der Heliane at the Opéra National du Rhin, sang Micaela (Carmen) at Opera Hong Kong, and made her long-awaited debut as Desdemona (Otello) at the Opernfestspiele Heidenheim. She also sang the Foreign Princess (Rusalka) in Limoges, performed Brahms’ Requiem for the first time at the Opéra de Marseille, and sang Mozart’s Requiem at Munich’s Herkulessaal.

In the summers of 2024 and 2025, she took part in the French live TV broadcast Musiques en fête from the Chorégies d’Orange, performing arias and ensembles from Madama Butterfly, La Bohème and Turandot.

Highlights from past seasons have included her debut at the Bayreuther Festspiele under Pablo Heras-Casado in Parsifal, debuts at the Opéra National de Bordeaux and the Opéra Comique in Paris with the world premiere of Les Sentinelles, streamed on Arte Concert, her debut at the Opéra de Lille as Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), her Wagner and Saint-Saëns recital with the Orchestre Colonne at the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Foreign Princess (Rusalka) at the Opéra de Marseille, Hanna Glawari (The Merry Widow) at the Opéra de Nice, Ciò-Ciò-San (Madama Butterfly) in Limoges, Rouen and Vichy, Ariadne (Ariadne auf Naxos) in Limoges and at the Hungarian State Opera Budapest, Mimì (La Bohème) in Munich, Aachen and Klosterneuburg, Schumann’s last Ballades under Laurence Equilbey at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, and her debut as the Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier) in concert in Geneva.

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

From 2016 to 2023, Camille Schnoor was a leading soloist at Staatstheater am 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 (The Tales of Hoffmann).

She has worked with conductors including Michele Spotti, Pablo Heras-Casado, Frédéric Chaslin, Christian Arming, Laurence Equilbey and Daniel Kawka, as well as with directors Stefano Poda, Laurent Pelly, Clarac-Deloeil le Lab, Michel Fau and Josef E. Köpplinger.

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

Camille Schnoor completed her musical studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (CNSM) in 2007, graduating as a concert pianist, before pursuing vocal studies in Paris and Maastricht. She made her opera debut at Theater Aachen in the roles of Luisa (Luisa Miller), Verdi’s Requiem, Marie (The Bartered Bride), Maria (West Side Story) and Agathe (Der Freischütz).