Raphaëlle Blin was a former student at the ENS in Paris. She studied cultural history (Sorbonne), art history (École du Louvre) and musicology (CNSMDP). Alongside her cello studies, she specialised in the modern and contemporary musical repertoire and completed a doctorate on the place of memory in contemporary stagings of Wagnerian operas at the universities of Paris-Nanterre and Lumière-Lyon 2. She is also a member of the enoa network, which has enabled her to attend several workshops at the Netherlands National Opera and the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
After working as an artistic collaborator on various opera productions, she now works as a production dramaturge between France and Germany, on opera, music theatre and transdisciplinary performance projects. Recently, she dramaturged the performance No Choice! with the Ensemble Modern, as part of the Akademie Musiktheater heute in Frankfurt, and the musical dramaturgy of the Germaine Tailleferre evening at the Philharmonie de Paris with the Orchestre de chambre de Paris.
As an institutional dramaturge and artistic consultant, she has worked with a number of cultural organisations, including the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, the Opéra de Lille, the Opéra de Dijon and the Opéra de Bordeaux. She carried out the preparatory research for the Encyclopédie des 350 ans de l'Opéra de Paris and is the author of the book Et Exspecto, les vingt ans du Festival Messiaen, published in 2019 by Éditions du Conservatoire. After collaborating on the opening festival Sémélé ou la traversée des songes at the Opéra de Lille during the 2022-2023 season and devising a series of daily readings in the building for the occasion, she directed the anniversary work Une maison d'opéra au XXe siècle, Opéra de Lille 1923-2023, published in October 2023 by Snoeck.
Since 2019, she has been teaching at the CRR in Paris (as part of the DSJC) and, since 2023, at the CNSMD in Lyon.
