Brigitte Fournier

Brigitte Fournier (born 14 June 1961) is a Swiss soprano singer known for her skills in lyric opera. Her voice, described as a lyric soprano, is best suited to composers such as Mozart and Richard Strauss.

Life and career Fournier was born in Sion. She studied at the conservatory of Bern in the class of Jakob Stämpfli, where she obtained a teaching diploma in singing in 1983. She played Rosina in The Barber of Seville by Rossini and Norina in Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti. Back in Switzerland in 1999, she played the roles of Blondchen in Die Entführung aus dem Serail by Mozart and Sophie in Werther by Jules Massenet at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. In 2000–2001, at the Lausanne Opéra, she performed Speranza and Ninfa in L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi conducted by Dominique Meyer.

Discography The Love for Three Oranges by Sergei Prokofiev.