Jeanine De Bique in Alcina with the Bayerische Staatsoper, July 2026 / Photo: G. Schied

The Trinidadian soprano Jeanine De Bique has kicked off a season of high-profile operatic appearances, including a recently concluded debut run at La Monnaie as Gounod’s Juliette and a run as Donna Anna in a new production of Don Giovanni at the Paris Opera in the spring.

But concert work, specifically in early music, remains De Bique’s bread and butter: in Fort Worth last month, she was joined by pianist Aaron Wajnberg and in New York next week, she will be accompanied by Jeannette Sorrell’s period instrument chamber ensemble, Apollo’s Fire. Her New York program features a mix of Baroque selections as well as contemporary music, folk songs, and calypso selections from her native Caribbean that she sings with a particular flare.

De Bique and Sorrell will reunite in New York in December at the Philharmonic for Messiah. Today’s selection features De Bique in one of her prominent operatic gigs from earlier this year, Alcina at the Bayerische Staatsoper.

Handel: Alcina, “Ah! Ruggiero crudel… Ombre pallide”

Jeanine De Bique

Conductor: Stefano Montanari
Bayerische Staatsoper
13 July 2026
Broadcast