BIOGRAPHY

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After a semester at the UMD Fine Arts School (USA) and a 2nd prize at the NATS Minnesota Competition, the French lyric soprano Lyriel Benameur is admitted in 2018, at the Universität Mozarteum von Salzburg (being awarded with the Gianna-Szel’s scholarship), where she is finishing her master’s degree in singing with Prof. Michèle Crider and in lied with Prof. Pauliina Tukiainen. She participated in masterclasses Susan Manoff, Antoine Palloc, Alain Garichot, Olivier Fredj and Dagmar Schellenberger, among others.

 

Lyriel is awarded of several prizes such as Prize of the City of Torgau at the Internationale Sächsische Sängerakademie 2021; prizes of Opéra Grand Avignon, Opéra de Toulon, Prix du Vaucluse and Concerts d’Oppède, at the Concours International de la Mélodie de Gordes 2021; and demi-finalist of Concours d’Opéra de Marmande 2020, among others.

 

In 2019, she debuted in productions of the Mozarteum, being the cover of Antonia in Offenbach’s Les Contes d ́Hoffmann. In the 2020-21 season, she performed as Zweite Dame in Die Zauberflöte, at the Théâtre de Tarare (France), Vitellia in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito and Marguerite in Faust-Szenen (a show with highlights of Boito’s Mefistofele and Gounod’s Faust), at the Mozarteum. In the 2021-22 season, the young soprano sang Mariana in Wagner’s Das Liebesverbot, Siébel in Gounod’s Faust and Nerone in Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea. In this same season, she sang a recital of lieder at the Opéra Grand Avignon and another one with opera highlights and French songs, at the Nuits Musicales en Armagnac. The season 2022-23 started to Lyriel Benameur with Così fan Tutte, at Les Concerts au Coucher du Soleil, in France, where she is singing Fiordiligi.

 

Lyriel Benameur has also performed in oratorios like Fauré’s Requiem and Haendel’s Juddas Maccabeus.