After studying at the Geneva Conservatoire, winning a First Prize at the CNR de Rueil-Malmaison with Elizabeth Vidal and earning a Master’s in the Art of the Recital at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Erminie Blondel was a member of the CNIPAL in 2009–2010. The French-American soprano has refined her technique with Cynthia Jacoby and Maryse Castets and prepares her roles with Irène Kudela and Antoine Palloc.

In 2023–2024 Erminie Blondel sang Violetta in La traviata at the Opéra de Massy under Robert Tuohy, directed by Oriol Thomas, Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail in Reims and on tour, and Missia in The Merry Widow with ATL.

In 2022–2023 she sang Sylva in The Csárdás Princess at the Budapest Operetta Theatre, Agnès in Gounod’s La Nonne sanglante at the Opéra de Saint-Étienne and Violetta in La traviata in Reims, Clermont-Ferrand and on tour, and made her debuts at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Lakmé (Miss Ellen). In 2021–2022 Erminie Blondel sang Micaëla (Carmen) at the Opéra de Reims in Paul-Émile Fourny’s production, and made her role debut as the Countess (Le nozze di Figaro) with Clermont Auvergne Opéra.

She sang the title role in The Merry Widow at the Opéra d’Avignon in 2020, took part in Musiques en fête at the Chorégies d’Orange in 2019, 2021 and 2022, and in a gala with the Orchestre National de Lyon at the Opéra de Vichy in 2021. She made her debut at the Capitole de Toulouse in Dukas’s Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (Bellangère) in 2019.

She covered Lisette Oropesa as Violetta in La traviata at the Greek National Opera in Athens – a role she sang in 2012 at the Teatro della Concordia in Turin and in 2016 in Paris, London and Shanghai.

She has performed Poulenc’s La Voix humaine at the Beijing International Opéra Comique Festival (2018) and in Clermont-Ferrand (2014), Marguerite in Faust (2018) and Micaëla in Carmen (2017) at La Seine Musicale, Pamina in The Magic Flute in Clermont-Ferrand (2018) and at the Naturbühne Gräfinthal (2016), Juliette in Benda’s Romeo und Julie in Clermont-Ferrand (2016), Antonia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann in Pisa, Lucca, Livorno and Novara under Guy Condette (2014), Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Festival de Vendôme, and the title role in Massenet’s Manon with Operaclassica in 2012...

Erminie Blondel is also passionate about oratorio:

soprano soloist in Mozart’s Requiem at the Victoria Hall in Geneva under M. Corboz, Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor, Coronation Mass and Exsultate, jubilate, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle, and Elijah with the Pretoria Symphony Orchestra (South Africa)...

A committed song recitalist, she recorded with Thomas Tacquet and the Forum Voix Étouffées an album of songs by composers who were victims of Nazism (Laks, Saguer, Ullmann, Kowalski and Ilse Weber), released in 2020: Jewish Destinies.