Olivia Doray studied at the Royal College of Music in London, at the CNIPAL in Marseille (former 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 the title-rôle of The Merry Widow (Saint-Etienne). More recently, she debuted the role of Héro from Béatrice et Bénédict by Berlioz (Angers, Nantes and Rennes), Diane from Orphée aux Enfers (Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg) and Yvette from Die Passagierin by Weinberg (Teatro Real in Madrid).

 

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 2024-2025 include Poussette from Manon in Torino, Vertu and Hymen from Persée by Lully in concert at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and a series of Mozart concerts in Angers and Nantes. 

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