Aurelie Jarjaye

Biography

Aurélie Jarjaye begins music by learning the piano and graduated from the CRR of Lyon in 2009.

In parallel with this Curriculum, she began singing and entered the same year at the Maîtrise de Notre-Dame de Paris. She was admitted in 2010 to the HEMU of Lausanne and there obtained a Master of Concert in June 2015 as well as the Fritz Bach Prize for the excellence of his career.

During her studies, she played the role of the Governess in Britten's The Turn of the Screw under the direction of Aurélien Azan Zielinski and directed by Armand Deladoey.       

She made her operatic debut as Mrs. Phidias in Christiné's PhiPhi for the Route Lyrique 2014 as part of a Swiss tour, at the Opéra de Lausanne and the Opéra de Vichy, then she sang the role of the Princess at the Opéra de Lausanne in Ravel’s L'Enfant et les Sortilèges.

Then she began a collaboration with the conductor Bertrand de Billy for a series of concerts with the Orchestre National de Lorraine and the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.  

In Vienna, where she perfected her skills with her current professor Heidi Brunner, she played the role of Dircé in Idoménée de Campra at the Schönbrunn Theatre and gives a recital at the Opéra d'Avignon, hailed by a nice success. She made a private recording with the National Orchestre of Ile-de-France with the main role of The Merry Widow of Lehar.

At the beginning of the 2020 season, she embodies the flamboyant Marei in the rare Zemlinsky's Traumgörge under the direction of the young conductor Martha Gardolinska, at the Opéra National de Lorraine, as well as at the Dijon Opera, a role that earned Aurélie Jarjaye very good reviews. She sang at Opera of Avignon under the direction of Federico Santi or Giulio Prandi.

Recently, she played the soprano part in the Requiem of Saint-Saëns with the Orchestre National Avignon Provence.

She sang as well for different projects with the conductors Benjamin Levi, Laurent Campellone, John Fiore.      

In addition, she created the show "Elle, lui, les autres" at the Comédie Nation in Paris, in which she performs Barbara's repertoire, a French chanson singer.

 In October 2021, she won the Second Grand Prix as well as the Massenet Prize at the Georges Enesco International Competition in Paris. She was invited at the Lyrical Meetings of Montreal, Canada as french opera singer ambassador. 

She sang this year for the french television for the first time at the Chorégies d'Orange in France and she will make her debut as Juliette at the Opera of Hong Kong in May 2024 in Roméo et Juliette of Gounod. Next season, she will sing her first Zaïde of Mozart.