Olivia Doray studied at the Royal College of Music in London, at the CNIPAL in Marseille (postgraduate opera training centre) and at the Atelier Lyrique of the Paris National Opera. With the Paris Opera, on the Bastille stage, she sang in Don Carlo (La Voce dal Cielo), Werther (Kätchen), Suor Angelica (Suor Dolcina) as well as in the new productions of Manon (Poussette) and Carmen (Frasquita).

 

A very stylish Mozartian, she sang Pamina from Die Zauberflöte (Rouen, in a touring production in France and in a concert version at the Paris Philharmonie), Mademoiselle Silberklang from Der Schauspieldirektor and Bastienne from Bastien und Bastienne (Toulon, Aix-en-Provence), Sandrina from La Finta Giardiniera (Rouen) and Servilia from La Clemenza di Tito (Rennes, Angers, Nantes).

 

She was heard as Frasquita from Carmen (Teatro Real in Madrid, Bordeaux), Musetta from La Bohème (Avignon, Rouen and on tour in France), Eurydice / L’Amour from Orphée et Eurydice (Berlioz Festival in La-Côte-Saint-André, Avignon, Bordeaux), Marzelline from Fidelio (Rouen, Rennes, Angers, Nantes), Anna from La Nonne Sanglante by Gounod (Opéra Comique in Paris), Walther from La Wally (Monte-Carlo), Zénobie from Ciboulette (Saint-Etienne, Opéra Comique), Charmion from Cléopâtre (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées), Poussette from Manon (Opéra Comique, Bordeaux), ​Clorinda from La Cenerentola (Massy), Pauline from La Vie Parisienne (Saint-Etienne), Guadalena and Manuelita from La Périchole (Salzburg, Montpellier, Bordeaux, Grenoble, Versailles), and more recently, she sang the title-rôle of La Veuve Joyeuse (Saint-Etienne).

 

She regularly sings concerts: Rameau's Castor et Pollux (Minerve, A Planet), Bach’s Mass in B minor, Lobgesang by Fanny Mendelssohn, Psalm op.42 by Felix Mendelssohn, Mozart’s Requiem, C-Mass, Solemn Vespers and concert arias, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung, Fauré's Pénélope... in Avignon, Saint-Etienne, Rouen, Paris (Opéra Comique), Marseille, Toulon, Cannes, Toulouse… She gave recitals in Clermont-Ferrand, Compiègne, Moscow, Venezia (Palazzetto Bru-Zane) and at the Chaise-Dieu Festival.

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She records the role of Marie-Anne from Ô mon bel inconnu by Reynaldo Hahn for the Palazzetto Bru-Zane, Naïade and Iphise from Les Fêtes d'Hébé by Rameau, the Great Motets by Gervais and also a selection of Motets by Rameau / Mondonville.

 

Her engagements for season 2023-2024 include Héro from Béatrice et Bénédict by Berlioz in Angers, Nantes and Rennes, Diane from Orphée aux Enfers at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and Yvette from Die Passagierin by Weinberg at the Teatro Real in Madrid.

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