From Vienna in Austria to Paris, passing through Verona, Dusseldorf, and Geneva, this is the story of a passion – Florine Roques Rogery’s passion for opera. She discovered this lyrical art at a young age, first on stage, then as a manager, delving into directing. Today, she leads projects to transmit, listen, and include through music.
“I’ve been passionate about opera since I was six years old,” says Florine Roques Rogery, a playwright, director, and cultural project coordinator, with roots in Aveyron through her father Olivier. She dedicated her life to this lyrical art, leaving her marketing job to follow her passion.
In the hearts of La Bohème
Born in Paris in May 1984, she started piano lessons at age seven, embraced the rich cultural life of the capital, and discovered bel canto. With her brother Boris, she joined the children’s choir at the Opéra de Paris, touring the world until the age of sixteen or seventeen.
“My very first opera was Puccini’s La Bohème. I was in the children’s choir, with sometimes solo parts,” she recalls. While she attended conservatory classes, she chose private lessons to “retain the sense of pleasure” and diligently practiced singing.
Years immersed in the musical world led Florine Roques Rogery to leave her job and pursue opera with determination: “This is what I want to do – opera!”
At the Staatsoper in Vienna
“I resumed my music studies and took Italian classes at the Sorbonne,” she explains. Music, theory, conservatory – her understanding led her to work in stage management at the Vienna State Opera at the beginning of 2015. Her mother Catharina’s home country.
Working there for two years, she says, “It’s about giving top-notch performances, knowing the music, reading it, and speaking German and Italian.” Collaborating with actors and renowned tenors, Florine traveled extensively and studied opera direction.
After acquiring experience abroad, Florine returns to France, rejoining the Opéra National de Paris. From January 2024 to July 2025, she will oversee stage direction, production collaboration, and coordination with technical and artistic teams.
At the Philharmonie de Paris, she coordinates the social program Demos to introduce rural populations to music, aiming to remove barriers and create dialogue spaces through art.
The “house of happiness”
From rural regions to her small piece of Aveyron, Florine cherishes her roots in Pradinas: “Returning to the landscapes of Aveyron is always a delight, an enchanting break that rejuvenates me.” She dreams of owning a place with old Aveyron stones that reflects her identity.
While aiming to create and sell stage productions, Florine keeps mediation in mind, desiring to facilitate dialogue spaces through art projects with a social impact.
/t:r(unknown)/filters:format(jpeg)/radios/vibration/importrk/news/original/41109.jpeg "Vianney finishes his cabin and is already preparing his return to music")
