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.

 

In this frame, she took part in Mirandolina by Martinu (title-role), Street Scene by Kurt Weill (Rose Maurrant), Les Troqueurs by Dauvergne (Margot) and Orphée et Eurydice by Glück (L’Amour). With the Paris Opera, on the Bastille stage, she sang in Don Carlo (La Voce dal Cielo), Werther alongside Jonas Kaufmann (Kätchen), Suor Angelica (Suor Dolcina) as well as in the new productions of Manon (Poussette) and Carmen (Frasquita).

 

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), Carolina from Il Matrimonio Segreto (Sédières), 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), Suzanne in Ganne’s operetta Les Saltimbanques (Rennes), Pauline from La Vie Parisienne (Saint-Etienne), Guadalena and Manuelita from La Périchole (Salzburg, Montpellier, Bordeaux, Grenoble, Versailles), la Pastourelle, la Chauve-Souris, la Bergère and la Chouette from L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (Lille), Elaine from Lancelot by Joncières (Saint-Etienne).

 

She regularly sings concerts: Bach’s Mass in B minor, 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 2022-2023 include the title-role in Die Lustige Witwe in Saint-Etienne, the roles of Minerva and a Constallation from Castor et Pollux by Rameau in Budapest, Amsterdam and at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.

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