Stéphanie d'Oustrac
Stéphanie d'Oustrac (born 1974 in Rennes) in is a French mezzo-soprano.
Biography
Stéphanie d'Oustrac was born in Rennes in 1974. She is the great-niece of Francis Poulenc and Jacques La Presle. Although as a child, she is part of the Maîtrise de Bretagne led by Jean Michel Noël, she dreamed of first being an actress before finally switching to opera. She was a student of Oleg Afonine for nearly a year.
She left Rennes to join the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon. She received the 1998 First Prize Song. Even before graduating from the Conservatory, she was spotted by William Christie who worked with Les Arts Florissants.
She studied with Christie and Marc Minkowski, and gradually expanded her repertoire to other conventional composers (Berlioz, Fauré, Britten). From 1998 to 2002, she appeared in "starter roles" in quality productions, and from 2002 the title role as Médée (Marc-Antoine Charpentier); Armide, Atys (Jean-Baptiste Lully); La Périchole, La belle Hélène (Jacques Offenbach); Carmen (Bizet); Pelléas et Mélisande (Claude Debussy).[1]
She appeared at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera.[2] She also regularly gives chamber music concerts with various ensembles (The Paladins, The Arpeggiata, The Bergamasco, Il Seminario Musicale, Amaryllis).[3] She is also a soloist in recital.[4]
References
- ↑ http://www.opera-online.com/en/items/performers/stephanie-doustrac-1974
- ↑ http://glyndebourne.com/stephanie-d%E2%80%99oustrac-ravel-double-bill
- ↑ http://www.earlymusictoday.com/news-comment/140912new-winter-baroque-festival-in-paris/
- ↑ http://www.institutfrancais.ru/fr/moscou/stephanie-doustrac-mezzo-soprano