The French mezzo-soprano Amandine Portelli studied at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux and has won several awards, including first prize at the Concours International de Chant Lyrique 2024 in Béziers. At the age of eight, she joined the choir school of the Maîtrise de Bordeaux, where she spent ten years gaining practical musical experience.
She has sung in Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Vivaldi’s Gloria and Nisi Dominus and Mozart’s Requiem and performed the alto solo in Bach’s Magnificat under Raphaël Pichon.
In 2023 she performed the role of Didon in the Purcell adaptation Didon et Énée Revisited at the Académie of the Opéra National de Bordeaux, where she also appeared as Maria in a free adaptation of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.
In the same year she made her debut at the Paris Opéra under Patrick Lange as Cat/Squirrel in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges. In 2024 she was accepted into the Opéra’s Académie.
Since then, her roles at the Paris Opéra have included Constanza in Haydn’s L’isola disabitata and Ramiro in Mozart’s La finta giardiniera. In December 2025 she sang the alto solo in Saint-Saëns’s Oratorio de Noël at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.
She has appeared in concerts in Paris and Venice co-produced by the Académie and the Palazzetto Bru Zane. In March 2025 she toured to French Guiana and Brazil under the auspices of the programme ‘L’Opéra en Guyane’, performing extracts from Bizet’s Carmen.
