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Elsa LEVY |
Lyric soprano, Elsa Levy, began her musical training at the age of eight
in flute and classical and contemporary dance. She has a strong theatre
background and she completed her studies at the “Ecole du Théâtre
National de Chaillot”.
Since 1998, she has added many roles to her repertoire. She has portrayed the roles of “La Gantière” in La Vie Parisienne, “Suzanne” in Double Echelle, “Dido” in Dido and Aeneas.
Since beginning her studies at the Centre de Formation Lyrique de l’Opéra National de Paris in 2002, she has performed the role of “Marina” in Les Quatre Rustres and also portrayed the roles (excerpts) of “Fiordiligi” in Cosi fan tutte, and “Tatiana” in Eugene Onegin. She had the privilege of understudying Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes at the Palais Garnier for the ballet “Balanchine”.
On the concert stage she has sung a recital of excerpts from Le Nozze di Figaro “Susanna”, an Operetta recital in Enghien, a concert of Ravel and Poulenc in Nice, a cycle of Fauré melodies at the Salle Cortot in Paris and Mozart’s Coronation Mass with the Orchestre Divertimenti.
While working with the Centre de Formation Lyrique at the Paris Opera, she has worked with many great masters including : Alexandrina Milcheva, Ileana Cotrubas, Térésa Berganza and José Van Dam. She has also attended masterclasses with Lorraine Nubar and Dalton Baldwin, Rachelle Yakar, Udo Reinemann and studied with Elly Ameling and Térésa Zylis-Gara.
Elsa Levy has also been very successful
in competitions : she has won first prize in the Concours Européen
de Musique de Montdidier, unanimously awarded first prize in the Prix
de la Ville de Paris and once again first prize in the Union des Maîtres
de Chant Français.