Mélissa Petit

Mélissa Petit (born 15 February 1990) is a French operatic soprano who studied piano and voice in her home town of St Raphael and in Nice. In 2009 she won second prize at the Concorso Musica Sacra in Rome and first prize at the Concours de Chant Lyrique in Béziers. She went on to spend three years with the opera studio attached to the Hamburg State Opera. After an engagement with the Zurich Opera, in 2017 she began freelancing, appearing in Bregenz, Copenhagen, Paris, Beijing, Salzburg and Lucerne. Roles have included Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen, Marzelline in Beethoven's Fidelio, and Servilia in a concert performance of Mozart's La clemenza di Tito. Early life Born in St Raphaël in the south of France, Mélissa Petit studied piano and voice at the conservatory in her home town where she was a pupil of Fabienne Chanoyan until she was 19. She completed her studies at the Université Sophia-Antipolis in Nice. In 2009 she won second prize at the Concorso Musica Sacra in Rome and first prize at the Concours de Chant Lyrique in Béziers.

Career From 2010 to 2013, Petit gained experience as a performer in Germany and Austria while with the opera studio of the Hamburg Opera.

While with the Zurich Opera (2015–2017), her roles included the First Lady in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Ännchen in Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz, Créuse in Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Médée and Marselline in Fidelio. Later roles have included Juliette in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette (Beijing, 2018), Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto (Bregenz, 2019), At the 2023 Salzburg Festival, she sang Euridice in Glück's Orfeo ed Euridice.

Awards 2009: second prize at the Concorso Musica Sacra in Rome