Masterclass at the Académie with Stéphanie d'Oustrac

With Stéphanie d'Oustrac and artists from the Académie de l'Opéra-Comique

Déborah Salazar, soprano • Ayano Kamei, pianist

• ‘Je suis seule, seule enfin’ (I am alone, finally alone), aria from Thaïs, Jules Massenet
• " Celui dont la parole efface toutes peines," aria from Salomé, excerpt from Hérodiade by Jules Massenet

Thaïs Raï-Westphal, soprano • Ayano Kamei, pianist

• ‘Trahir Vincent,’ aria from Mireille, Charles Gounod
• ‘Il faut partir,’ aria from Marie, excerpt from La Fille du régiment by Gaetano Donizetti

Flore Royer, mezzo-soprano • Flore-Élise Capelier, pianist

• ‘Ah la pitoyable aventure,’ aria from Concepción, excerpt from L'Heure espagnole by Maurice Ravel
• ‘Werther, Werther,’ aria from Charlotte, excerpt from Werther by Jules Massenet

Paul-Louis Barlet, baritone • Flore-Élise Capelier, pianist

• ‘Mab, la reine des mensonges', aria by Mercutio, from Roméo et Juliette by Charles Gounod
• Scène de Troïl, from Le Vaisseau fantôme by Pierre-Auguste Dietsch

A major player in operatic creation, the Opéra-Comique has launched its new Académie in 2023. Aimed at new generations of performers, the Académie de l'Opéra-Comique is designed to promote the comic opera genre and its specific art of interpretation, as close as possible to the texts and the stage, among young talent.

As a centre of artistic excellence in French singing and the art of the spoken and sung word, it nurtures the artistic vitality of the Opéra-Comique's opera season by promoting the values of fairness, diversity and inclusion that the theatre stands for. The Académie also aims to develop new ways of looking at opera and to encourage the emergence of new artistic formats through creative residencies and the continuous presence of young artists throughout the opera season.