The Maîtrise Populaire of the Opéra-Comique

Auditions are held every year at the Opéra Comique for young people to join the Maîtrise Populaire.

Our next recruitment campaign for the 2023-24 academic school year will be announced here (link to registration form) as of December 2023.

Registrations for the next school year are now closed. To join the Maîtrise, auditions are organized each year. The following recruitment campaign will concern the 2024-2025 school year, and will be accessible here from December 2023.

To ensure social and geographical diversity, a recruitment tour is also organised in primary schools of the priority education network located around Paris (REP and REP+ ).

In 2018, the Maîtrise visited Saint-Ouen’ schools, in 2019 it went to Bagneux, in 2020 to Ivry-surSeine and in 2021 the Maîtrise went on the outskirts of Paris, in the 19th et 20th arrondissements.

Although the Maîtrise Populaire is primarily focused on voice work, the most accessible instrument of all, it is the multidisciplinary dimension of the training that makes it so special.At the Maîtrise, students take courses in vocal techniques and choral singing as well as dance, Dalcroze musical training, tap dance, theatre, piano and sign singing (sign language used to interpret tunes and songs). This enables them to learn about music differently, through a process that decompartmentalizes and synergises the intellectual and physical/emotional approaches to listening.

On-stage artistic activities are at the heart of the Maîtrise’s pedagogy. The troupe participates in about 35 concerts, productions and performances every year, be it at the Salle Favart or off-site.

Schooling

To meet the multiple objectives of the Maîtrise Populaire, the teaching team brings together specialized teachers, trained in the largest French institutions (Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris, CNSMD, Higher Center for Artistic Education in Paris) and international (Compagnie de Merce Cunningham, Julliard School, Lausanne Conservatory).