Florence Daguerre de Hureaux

Florence trained as a singer at the Royal Academy of Music and at the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.

Born in Paris, Florence Daguerre de Hureaux settled in London in 1982.

Florence has been working as a French coach in music colleges and opera houses in Europe and beyond for 40 years: Glyndebourne, Garsington, Scottish Opera, RBO, Salzburg Festival, La Scala, Stockholm Royal Opera, Danish Royal Opera, New Israeli Opera, De Nederlandse Opera, Korea National Opera, Teatro Real, Teatr Wielki in Warsaw, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Göteborg Opera, Zagreb National Opera, Opera Zuid etc. 

As well as lecturing, narrating, doing pre-concert talks, workshops, masterclasses and adjudicating for competitions, she has worked with many distinguished singers in preparation for operatic roles, recitals and recordings. 

She has a deep passion for poetry, French song and researching less well-known songs to create interesting programmes and is keen to encourage all singers to explore the mélodie répertoire. 

Florence views her work with young artists as essential and is a staff member at the Royal Academy of Music, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal College of Music. She is also a regular visiting coach at the Royal Northern College of Music, the National Opera Studio, the Dutch National Opera Academy in Amsterdam, Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo (KHiO), the Operaakademiet in Copenhagen and the Jette Parker Artists Programme at RBO. She has worked at the Opera Academy of the Polish National Opera, the Operahögskolan in Stockholm (SKH), the Opera Studio in Tel Aviv, with the Bolshoi Young Artists Opera programme in Moscow and the young artists of the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk.

In 2013 she co-founded the Academy of French Song and Opera.