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Soprano Anne Sophie Petit studied solo singing (to master’s degree level) at the University of Music Lausanne (HEMU). She received the “Young Talent” award from the Philippe Jaroussky Music Academy (2019/2020) and is a laureate of the Royaumont Foundation. In 2020, she was awarded 3rd place in the International Singing Competition in Béziers and won the Gustav Mahler Competition in Geneva, in a duo with pianist Marcel Vigh.
She recently excelled in the roles of Musette in Puccini’s La bohème, Little Red Riding Hood in Leuenberger’s Le Petit Chaperon rouge, Yniold in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande and the Fire, the Princess and the Nightingale in Ravel’s opera The Child and the Magic Spells.
She has performed several times with the ensemble Gli Angeli Genève. In 2020, she performed the roles of Delia and the Second Priestess in Rameau’s opera Acanthe and Céphise, under the baton of Alexis Kossenko, and in 2021, she will sing the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute on a Dutch tour with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century.
For the 2020/2021 season, Anne Sophie Petit is a member of the Studio at the Lyon Opera House.