After a season marked by her debut at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées as Queen of the Night in Die Zauberföte, Anne Sophie Petit plays this role again at the Tours Opera and in an adapted version at the Toulon Opera. She also appears in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Trondheim Symfoniorkester conducted by Paul Agnew.
After studying civilisations of the English-speaking Pacific in France, French Polynesia and New Zealand, Anne Sophie Petit completed a Bachelors then a Masters in solo performance at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Lausanne in Stephan Macleod’s class and won the Max D. Jost prize for excellence in her recitals.
Young Ravel Talent at the Philippe Jaroussky Music Academy in 2019-2020, she is also a laureate of the Royaumont Foundation and in 2020 joined the Studio of the Lyon Opera. The same year she won first prize in her duet with pianist Marcell Vigh at the Mahler Competition in Geneva. They were then invited to perform their Nosztalgia duet at the Lavaux Classic Festival in 2021 and the Young Talents Festival, Paris, in 2022.
She made her stage debut at the Lausanne Opera in 2017 playing Musetta in La Bohème, then the Fairy in Pauline Viardot’s Cinderella in 2018, Angélique in Hervé’s Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde in 2019 and the title role in Gloria Bruni’s Pinocchio in 2023.
She has performed as a soloist with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre de Suisse Romande, the Picardie Orchestra, the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, the Concert de la Loge, Les Ambassadeurs, La Grande Écurie, Correspondances and Gli Angeli Geneva conducted by Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Arie van Beek, Alexis Kossenko, Frank Beermann, Didier Puntos, Stephan Macleod, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Joshua Weilerstein, Michel Corboz, Nicolas Chalvin, Patrick Marie Aubert and Pierre Dumoussaud.
She recently appeared as Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte with Ouverture Opéra in Sion, then at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Atelier Lyrique in Tourcoing, the Opera at Reims, Bordeaux and Compiègne in a reduced French version; the Fairy in Cinderella at the Lausanne Opera; Yniold in Pelléas et Mélisande at Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse and at the Rouen Opera; Miss Silberklang in Der Schauspieldirektor at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw with The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century; and the title role of Guy-François Leuenberger’s Le Petit Chaperon Rouge at the Tours Opera.
Language spoken: French
Photo credit: Natacha Lamblin