Amandine Portelli Mezzo-soprano

A young mezzo-soprano of 20 years old, Amandine Portelli is currently a student in her final year at the Bordeaux Conservatoire in Maryse Castets' singing class. Selected to be part of the first Opéra national de Bordeaux’s Academy, she portrayed the title role in Didon et Énée on the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux’s stage in February 2023. Amandine Portelli began her artistic training with classical dance and discovered singing at the age of 8 when she joined the Girls Chorus of the Maîtrise de Bordeaux, conducted by Alexis Duffaure.

She quickly became a soloist and sang the alto solo parts in Pergolèse’s Stabat Mater (2018) and Vivaldi’s Gloria (2019). In 2020, Salvatore Caputo gave her first Mozart’s Requiem as a soloist, a part she revived thrice. During the 2021/22 season, she performed most of the soloist parts of Germaine Tillion’s Verfügbar aux enfers, performed at a concert organised by the Unisson association (excerpts from Il viaggio a Reims and Le Nozze di Figaro).

She was also the solo alto in Bach’s Magnificat conducted by Raphaël Pichon and the soloist in a program of arias from the movie Farinelli conducted by Thomas Tacquet-Fabre. Since her performance of Dido, she has been continuing her collaboration with the Opéra national de Bordeaux with several recitals and first performed on stage, for the Conservatoire, the roles of the 3rd Nymph (Rusalka) and Miss Quickly (Falstaff). She is perfecting her technique with numerous masterclasses under, among others, William Christie, Jeff Cohen, Irène Kudela and Claudia Visca. She won first prize unanimously and the jury's congratulations at the Bellan competition in the junior category in 2021, and first prize unanimously at the Cap Ferret Music Open.

Paris Opera debut