Helène Carpentier

Pianist and flautist by training, she discovered singing in Amiens, her hometown, where she met Marie-Dominique Loyer, her current teacher and coach. Admitted in 2015 to the adult choir of the Maitrise Notre-Dame de Paris (direction Henri Chalet), she was admitted the following year to the entrance examination of the National Superior Conservatory of Music and Dance of Paris; she joined the class of Marcel Boone. In 2017, she won the 1st Prize "Femme Opéra", the 2nd Prize "Mélodie Française", the Young Hope Prize, the Audience Prize and the Special Jury Prize of the 29th International Competition of Marmande, the Grand Prize and the Prize for the best performer of the Italian repertoire of the 3rd Opéra Raymond Duffaut Young Upsides of Avignon Competition, as well as the Young Upside Award of the 2nd Robert Massard International Singing Competition in Bordeaux. It is also named "Classic Revelation 2018" by ADAMI. In 2018, she won the First Prize and the Prize for the best interpretation of the French repertoire during the great "Voix Nouvelles 2018" competition. She performs for various festivals such as the Bolshoi Christmas festival in Minsk, the Debussy festival in Argenton-sur-Creuse, Les Musicales du Lubéron, the Forez and Fénétrange festivals, the Nuits lyriques de Marmande and the Chorégies d ' Orange. Recently, she is Albina in La Dame du lac at the Opéra de Marseille, Gabriel et Eve (La Création by Haydn) with the Orchester National de Lorraine, Micaëla (Carmen) at the Opéra de Rouen and at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. She also performs the roles of Madeleine / Madame de Latour (Le Postillon de Lonjumeau) at the Opéra de Rouen, Despina (Così fan tutte) at the Opéra de Nice and Antibes. For the 2020/2021 season, she will be Idomenée (Électre) by Campra in Lille and at the Staatsoper in Berlin, Mélisande in Ariane et Barbe-Bleue at the Opéra de Lyon, Inès in L'Africaine at the Opéra de Marseille, Marzelline in Fidelio with the Insula Orchestra

• Update November 2020 *