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The French soprano Mélissa Petit was born in Saint-Raphaël and studied singing in her home town and in Nice, before beginning her career in 2010 as a member of the Hamburg State Opera’s International Opera Studio. After three years at the Opera Studio and two as a freelancer she joined the ensemble of the Zurich Opera House in 2015, singing roles such as Sophie (Werther), Marzelline (Fidelio), Ännchen (Der Freischütz) and Créuse in Charpentier’s Médée.
Mélissa Petit resumed her freelance career in 2017 and has enjoyed great success in a series of leading roles that have included Micaëla (Carmen) and Gilda (Rigoletto) at the Bregenz Festival and Juliette (Roméo et Juliette) both at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing and at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf. She has also made guest appearances at the Paris Opéra as Giannetta (L’elisir d’amore) and Papagena (Die Zauberflöte).
The third prize in the 2019 Paris Opera Competition opened the doors to other French opera houses. In March 2021, for example, she sang Anna in a concert performance of Boieldieu’s La Dame blanche in Limoges.
Mélissa Petit made her debut at the 2021 Salzburg Whitsun Festival as Bellezza (Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno) and as Servilia in a concert performance of La clemenza di Tito. She has already sung this last-named role in Zurich and Monte Carlo. In summer 2023 she returned to the Salzburg Festival as Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice by Gluck.
Her most recent successes include her acclaimed debut in the title role of Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen and Juliette in Roméo et Juliette at Theater an Der Wien, her debut at the Staatsoper Berlin as Ilia in Idomeneo, a tour with Cecilia Bartoli across Europe’s most prestigious concert halls as Servilia in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito, her debut as Sophie in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, her return to the 2024 Bregenzer Festspiele as Amenaìde (Tancredi) and to the 2024 Salzburg Festival as Servilia (La Clemenza di Tito).
Upcoming projects include Servilia (La Clemenza di Tito), Freia and Woglinde (Das Rheingold) at Opéra de Monte Carlo, Angelica (Orlando) at Opéra de Lorraine, Théatre de Caen, Grand Théatre de Luxembourg.
