Chloé Briot (born 18 November 1987) is a French operatic

soprano A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880&n ...

Life

Briot was born in

Mayenne Mayenne () is a landlocked department in northwest France named after the river Mayenne. Mayenne is part of the administrative region of Pays de la Loire and is surrounded by the departments of Manche, Orne, Sarthe, Maine-et-Loire, and Ill ...

of parent teachers. She started playing percussion at the age of 4, then started playing the flute and took dance lessons. At the age of 14, the singing teacher at the city's conservatory decided to accept her into her class even though she was too young for the age requirement. She then studied at the

Conservatoire de Paris The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue ...

from 2006 onwards, which she left afterwards, judging the atmosphere "too academic". She then went on to study at the

Aix-en-Provence Festival The Festival d'Aix-en-Provence is an annual international music festival which takes place each summer in Aix-en-Provence, principally in July. Devoted mainly to opera, it also includes concerts of orchestral, chamber, vocal and solo instrumenta ...

, of which she was a laureate in 2014. In 2018, she was nominated in the "Lyric Artist" category in the

Victoires de la musique classique The Victoires de la musique classique (; en, "Victories of Classical Music") are an annual French classical music award event founded in 1986. The awards are the classical equivalent of the popular music awards Victoires de la Musique and the Victo ...

. In August 2020, she announced that she had filed a complaint for sexual assault.

Opera

* 2014 : ''

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'' by Leoš Janáček, directed by

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* 2015 : ''

Alcina ''Alcina'' (Händel-Werke-Verzeichnis, HWV 34) is a 1735 opera seria by George Frideric Handel. Handel used the libretto of ''L'isola di Alcina'', an opera that was set in 1728 in Rome by Riccardo Broschi, which he acquired the year after during ...

'' by Haendel, directed by Pierre Audi * 2015 : ''

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'' by Mozart, directed by Pet Halmen * 2015 : ''

Le Roi Carotte ''Le roi Carotte'' (''King Carrot'') is a 4-act opéra- bouffe- féerie with music by Jacques Offenbach and libretto by Victorien Sardou, after E. T. A. Hoffmann. The libretto, written before the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, lampoone ...

'' by Jacques Offenbach, directed by

Laurent Pelly Laurent Pelly (born 14 January 1962 in Paris) is a French opera and theatre director. He enjoys a career as one of France's most sought after directors of both theatre and opera, working regularly in the world's most prestigious houses. Biograp ...

* 2016 : '' Pelléas et Mélisande'' by Claude Debussy, directed by

René Koering René Koering (born 27 May 1940) is a French composer, film producer and theater director. He is particularly known for his involvement in the creation of the Festival de Radio France et Montpellier in 1985. Life Born in Andlau (Bas-Rhin), he pa ...

* 2016 : ''

Lakmé ''Lakmé'' is an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille. The score, written from 1881 to 1882, was first performed on 14 April 1883 by the Opéra-Comique at the (second) Salle Favart in P ...

'' by Léo Delibes, directed by * 2016 : ''Pelléas et Mélisande'', directed by Katie Mitchell * 2016 : ''Pelléas et Mélisande'', directed by Stéphane Braunschweig * 2017 : ''Little Nemo'' by David Chaillou, directed by and * 2017 : ''

Pinocchio Pinocchio ( , ) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' (1883) by Italian writer Carlo Collodi of Florence, Tuscany. Pinocchio was carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a Tuscan vil ...

'' by Philippe Boesmans, directed by * 2018 : ''La Légende du Roi Dragon'' by Arthur Lavandier, directed by * 2018 : ''Pelléas et Mélisande'', directed by Stefan Herheim * 2018 : ''

A Midsummer Night's Dream ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' is a comedy written by William Shakespeare 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict amon ...

'' by Felix Mendelssohn, Juliette Deschamps * 2019 : ''The Magic Flute'', directed by

Robert Carsen Robert Carsen O.C. (born 23 June 1954) is a Canadian opera director. He was born in Toronto and is the son of philanthropist Walter Carsen. Early steps towards directing From an early age "I became obsessed with the theatre" Carsen states and he ...

* 2019 : ''L’Inondation'' by

Francesco Filidei Francesco Filidei (born 1973) is an Italian concert organist and composer. A student of Salvatore Sciarrino, he has performed internationally. As a composer, he has collaborated with singer-songwriter Claire Diterzi and written operas premiered ...

, directed by Joël Pommerat

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Chloe Briot
on Kunstenpunt French operatic sopranos Conservatoire de Paris alumni 1987 births Living people People from Mayenne 21st-century French women opera singers {{france-opera-singer-stub