Deborah Cachet, hailed by Gramophone as “an immensely pleasing and confident soprano – a voice to listen out for”, is a Belgian soprano in high demand with prominent period ensembles such as Les Talens Lyriques, Les Arts Florissants, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Le Poème Harmonique and Collegium 1704. She performs at concert halls such as Theater an der Wien, Musikverein, Bozar, Wigmore Hall, Philharmonie de Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Château de Versailles and festivals such as French May (Hong-Kong), Festival de Saintes, Festival van Vlaanderen, Utrecht Early Music Festival, Rheingau Festial, Innsbrucker Festwochen für Alte Musik, among others.
Recent highlights include Händel’s solo cantata Didone abbandonata with B’Rock at Alte Musik Tage Herne, her role debut as Iphis in Händel’s Jephtha with Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset in Oslo and Namur, and her debut at the Drottningholm Palace Theatre in Sweden in Lully’s opera Armide. On tour with Collegium 1704, she recently revived one of her signature roles, Alphise in Rameau’s Les Boréades at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid. She sang Händel’s Messiah with Collegium 1704 in Prague, Dresden and Seville, and Bach’s Hohe Messe with Gli Angeli Genève. She also performed Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beate Vergine with Cappella Mediterranea and Leonardo García Alarcón in Metz, Versailles, Madrid and Lisbon.
Her performed opera roles include Théone in Lully’s opera Phaéton at the Ópera de Nice, Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Opera de Tours, the roles of Procri, Musa and Ninfa in Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne at the Innsbrucker Festwochen für Alte Musik as well as Cherubino with René Jacobs at the Abbaye de Royaumont, Dido in Dido and Aeneas, Didon in Desmarest's Didon et Énee with Paul Agnew and the Festival d'Ambronay, and Arminda in La finta Giardiniera with Les Arts Florissants. Other highlights included performances as La Statue in Rameau's Pygmalion with Paul Agnew and Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Leçons de ténèbres by Charpentier with Les Arts Florissants, Les Talens Lyriques as well as with Le Poème Harmonique and with Les Ombres Baroque, and Bach cantatas with Raphaël Pichon at the Abbaye de Royaumont.
Her discography includes her solo album La chambre bleue with Sofie Vanden Eynde on theorbo, released in 2023 by Passacaille records. Furthermore, she appears on Les Boréades with Collegium 1704, Ballet royal de la Naissance de Vénus (2021) and Acis et Galatée (2022), Thésée (2023) all by Lully, with Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset, Händel: Dixit Dominus (2023) with the Flemish Radio Choir and Il Gardellino, Nisi Dominus with Le Poème Harmonique, Stravaganza d'Amore with Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon, La Maddalena (A. Bertali), Petits Motets II (H. Fiocco), Dialoghi Amorosi (G.F. Sances) and O Penosa Lontananza (A. Scarlatti) all with the ensemble Scherzi Musicali and Nicolas Achten, Anamorfosi with Le Poème Harmonique and Vincent Dumèstre, Orphée aux enfers (Charpentier) with A Nocte Temporis and Vox Luminis and Brabant 1653 with Holland Baroque.
Deborah studied in Leuven at Luca School of Arts with Gerda Lombaerts and Dina Grossberger and at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Sasja Hunnego, after which she continued to perfect her vocal technique with Rosemary Joshua. She won first prizes at the Concours International de Chant Baroque de Froville (2015), the New Tenuto competition (2013) and was a finalist of the 8th Antonio Cesti Competition. She was proclaimed as the Young Promise of the year 2020 by Klara Radio. She is a laureate of Le Jardin des Voix 2019, the young artists programme of Les Arts Florissants.