Axelle Fanyo - NOSPR

After studying musicology and violin, Axelle decided to focus on singing, studying at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with Glenn Chambers, where she obtained her Masters Diploma. As a Fondation Royaumont prize-winner, she also had the opportunity to study with singers such as Mireille Delunsch, Waltraud Meier and Dame Felicity Lott. In January 2019, she was selected to take part in masterclasses with Renée Fleming in New York.

Axelle is passionate about art song, and regularly appears in recital: she won the First Prize at the International Lied Duo Competition in Enschede (Netherlands), the Young Artist prize at the International French song competition in Toulouse and the prestigious Kaleidoscope Competition in the USA. She has performed at several festivals, as well as at the Opéra de Lille and at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.

He opera and concert repertoire is eclectic: Legrenzi's La Divisione del mondo in Cologne with Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset, Barena Jenufa at the Opéra de Dijon and the Opéra de Caen, Leila in John Adams’ I Was Looking at the Ceiling and then I Saw the Sky at the Opéra de Lyon, Khane in Rumshinsky's The Golden Bride with Opera Fuoco, Brahms’s Deutsches Requiem with Les Siècles and the Aedes Ensemble, conducted by Mathieu Romano, and she has recently recorded excerpts from Saint-Saëns's Mélodies Persanes with the Orchestre du Capitole in Toulouse. She has also performed in Le Baron de Münchhausen (a pasticcio based on French operas of the 17th century) with Le Concert Spirituel and Hervé Niquet in Compiègne and on tour, plus, with the same company, performances of Le Malade Imaginaire by Charpentier/Molière (in Massy and also on tour), as well as Pulcheria in Pallavicino’s Le Amazzoni nell’isole fortunate with Les Talens Lyriques in Potsdam and at the Festival de Beaune, and the Second Maid Elektra at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse.

In recital, she has sung at the Trasimeno Music Festival in Italy, at the invitation of Angela Hewitt, accompanied by Kunal Lahiri, and made her Concertgebouw Amsterdam debut with Julius Drake.

Most recently, she sang Debussy’s La Damoiselle Élue with the Orchestre de Paris and Refka in Saarihao’s Adriana Mater with the San Francisco Symphony (both conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen), the title role in a reduced Tosca and the Mother in the world premiere of Justice (by Hèctor Parra) at the Grand Théâtre de Genève.

Alongside her Rising Stars recitals across Europe, her future plans include the title role of Verdi’s Luisa Miller at the Opéra d’Avignon.