SYLVIE VALAYRE

Born in France, she studied canto at the Music Academy in Paris, perfecting her skill with Gino Becchi, Giuseppe di Stefano, Galina Vishnievskaia, etc. From 1990 to 1995 she studied with Sergio Tedesco. From the beginning of her career, she approached roles with lesser exposure from operas by Rimski - Korsakov (The Bride of the Zar in Rome, conductor Mstislav Rostropovici), Zemlinski, etc as well as contemporary music (Le Chateau des Carpathes by Hersant performed in absolute premiere at Montpellier, Opera d 'Aran by Becaud in Vienna, conductor Georges Prêtre). In 1996 she made an unexpected debut at Covent Garden as Abigaile from Nabucco and was invited back to London to perform excerpts from Don Carlo , conductor Bernard Haitink, at the Royal Albert Hall. She performed for the first time at La Scala in 1997 with La Gioconda and then in San Francisco with Madama Butterfly . She also performed in Rome, at the Arena di Verona (Aida , conductor Daniel Oren), Turin, Zürich (Nabucco , conductor Nello Santi), as well as at Carnegie Hall (Jerusalem )and the Metropolitan, New York (Madama Butterfly ), Los Angeles, Graz (Salomé ). In recent years she has enriched her repertoire with new performances in Manon Lescaut , Ernani , Tosca (Paris, Berlin, New York, Chicago, Tokyo), Macbeth (Zürich and La Monnaie - Brussels, conductor Antonio Papano), Andrea Chénier (at the Metropolitan together with Placido Domingo), Elektra (in Madrid during the tour of the Staatsoper Berlin, conductor Daniel Barenboim), Norma , Turnadot, Die Frau ohne Schatten, (at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, conductor Christian Thielemann ), La Fanciulla del West, Un ballo in maschera , Fedora . She had a first time performance at the Staatsoper Vienna in Tosca and also in the Requiem by Verdi in Madrid.

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