Séraphine Cotrez

After studying Applied Arts, Séraphine Cotrez turned to music and studied singing ; with a full and expressive mezzo-soprano voice, she first trained in Paris with baritone Yann Toussaint, then at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon (class of Françoise Pollet), from which she graduated with a Master's degree in opera singing in 2019.

During her studies she also studied at the Universität der Künst in Berlin in the class of Julie Kaufmann and Peter Maus, with whom she refined her knowledge of the German repertoire. She deepened her approach to French melody at the Orford Academy in Canada with Rosemary Landry and Francis Perron, and at the Académie Poulenc in Tours with François Le Roux, Christian Ivaldi, Jeff Cohen and Nicolas Kruger. Wishing to perfect her mastery of the French repertoire, then joined François Le Roux's class in the specialised certificate in French vocal art at the École Normale Supérieure de Musique Alfred Cortot in Paris.

She has already performed the roles of Oenone (Hippolyte et Aricie by Rameau) at the Opéra Comique de Paris under the baton of Raphaël Pichon, Mercedes (Carmen) at the Opéra national du Rhin, Karolka (Jenufa) at Grand Théâtre de Genève and Opéra de Rouen, Annina (La Traviata) at the Opéra de Limoges, Clorinda (Monteverdi's Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda) and Venus (Monteverdi's Il ballo delle ingrate) at the Opéra de Reims with Les Paladins conducted by Jérôme Correas, Dardano (Handel's Amadigi) with these same Paladins, or Clotilda (Norma) alongside the Orchestre Philharmonique du Maroc.

In the concert field she was heard in Mozart's Mass in C minor with the Orchestre de Cannes Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (conducted by Nicolas Krüger), Beethoven's Mass in C with the Orchestre de Massy (conducted by Constantin Rouits), Rachmaninov's Vespers at the Philharmonie de Paris, or in an opera arias programm alongside the Orchestre Philharmonique du Maroc.

Among her projects for the 2022/2023 season : the Kitchen boy (Rusalka) at the Opéra national de Toulouse and Fatimé (Zémire et Azor by Grétry) at the Opéra Comique de Paris.

Séraphine Cotrez is represented by the agency RSB Artists since 2019.