Isabelle Druet is one of the most appreciated french mezzo-sopranos of her generation. She passes with equal happiness from opera to recital and crosses the centuries from Monteverdi to Britten with disconcerting ease.

A musician with an atypical background, she first trained in the dance and the theater, then made her first steps as a singer in current and traditional music, while studying singing at the CNSMD in Paris. Numerous awards soon followed ("Promising lyrical artist 2007" from ADAMI, winner of the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition 2008, Most Promising lyrical Artist at the "Victoires de la musique classique 2010", Rising Star 2013) and engagements in the greatest opera houses and with the most renowned ensembles.

Her broad repertoire covers roles like CARMEN at the Opera of Düsseldorf / Duisburg, the Opéra national de Lorrain and the Opéra de Saint-Etienne, Béatrice/BÉATRICE ET BENEDICT and Cassandre/LA PRISE DE TROIE at the Berlioz Festival in La Côte Saint-André and at the Cologne Opera Dido/DIDO AND AENEAS on national tour and in Brussels, the title role of L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI at the Opéra-Théâtre de Metz, Baba the Turk/THE RAKE’S PROGRESS at the Opéra de Nice and the Grand Théâtre du Luxembourg as well as in Caen, Reims, Rouen, Limoges, Melanto and Fortuna IL RITORNO D’ULISSE IN PATRIA at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and at the Opéra de Dijon, Concepción/L’HEURE ESPAGNOLE at the Lyon Auditorium, the Salle Pleyel and the Barbican Center in London, Orphée/ORPHÉE ED EURYDICE at the Opéras de Limoges and Besançon, Tisbé/LA CENERENTOLA, La Ciesca/GIANNI SCHICCHI and Annina/LA TRAVIATA at the Opéra national de Paris, Arcabonne/AMADIS in Avignon and Massy, the title roles of LA PÉRICHOLE  and LA GRANDE DUCHESSE DE GEROLSTEIN on tour...

She has been working with conductors like François-Xavier Roth, René Jacobs, Leonard Slatkin, Emmanuelle Haïm or William Christie and alongside the London Symphony Orchestra, the Gürzenich Orchester, the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the National Orchestra of Lyon, the Orchestre National de Liège, the National Orchestra of Belgium, the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pygmalion ensemble, the Arts Florissants, the Berliner Barocksolisten and the Insula orchestra.

Isabelle Druet's discography includes recordings with Vincent Dumestre's Le Poème Harmonique, her recitals with pianists Johanne Ralambondrainy (Jardin Nocturne) and Anne Le Bozec (Shakespeare songs), Ravel's SHÉHÉRAZADE and L’HEURE ESPAGNOLE with the Orchestre national de Lyon and recently with Les Siècles, an Alma Mahler / Zemlinsky program with the Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche Comté conducted by Jean-François Verdier or the DVD IL RITORNO D’ULISSE IN PATRIA with Emmanuel Haïm's Concert d'Astrée.

Future engagements include Triton in CORONIS (a baroque zarzuela), at Teatro Campoamor of Oviedo (Spain), Conception in Ravel's Heure Espagnole at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées and Calypso in Destouches's TELEMAQUE ET CALYPSO in Opéra Royal de Versailles. Also several concerts and recordings of which Monteverdi with Les Epopées (at the Berlin Philharmonie and L'Arsenal de Metz), Debussy and Fauré with Brussels Philharmonic, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with Orchestre de Lorraine as well as DANZA ! (a baroque spanish recital) with Le Poème Harmonique.