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Marie Oppert is joining the Company of the Comédie-Française in April 2022 as "pensionnaire". 


 

 

 

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Marie Oppert is making her cinema debut in the movie Tenor by Claude Zidi Jr.  

The VOD, DVD and Blu-Ray of the movie are now available. 


 

 

 

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Marie Oppert is named a Weill/Lenya Artist of the Kurt Weill Foundation for her role as Polly in the new production of The Threepenny Opera directed by Thomas Ostermeier opening in Festival Aix en Provence in July 2023.

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Marie Oppert is an actress and soprano singer, member of the Comédie-Française Troupe in Paris.

 

Since she joined the company in 2022, she starred in various plays including : Moliere’s Bourgeois Gentilhomme (dir. Christian Hecq and Valérie Lesort), Les Fourberies de Scapin and Lucrece Borgia both directed by Denis Podalydès, Brecht’s Galileo in Eric Ruf’s production, Les Serge (Gainsbourg) by Sébastien Pouderoux and Stéphane Varupenne, Teorema (based on Pasolini’s film) written by Amine Adjina and Claudine Galea’s Trois Fois Ulysse stage directed by Laetitia Guédon. 

 

In 2023, Marie was awarded by the Kurt Weill Foundation "Kurt Weill/ Lotte Lenya Artist" for her interpretation of Polly in Thomas Ostermeier's new production of The Threepenny Opera with the Comédie-Française at Aix-en-Provence Festival. 

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Marie made her praised stage debut at 17 years old when she portrayed the lead role in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg at the Theatre du Chatelet, alongside Natalie Dessay and under Michel Legrand’s musical direction (stage directed by Vincent Vittoz). 

She then became the youngest recipient of a Fulbright grant from the Franco-American commission in order to study musical theatre (Bachelor of Arts) at Marymount Manhattan College in New York. She trained in classical singing in France with Chantal Mathias and drama studies with Nathalie Becue. Marie won two awards at the Lotte Lenya Competition (Special Award in 2017 and Trustee Award in 2020) and the Interpretation of the International Singing Competition of Marseille (operetta category). She was nominated as Lyrical Artist Revelation at the Victoires Classical Awards in 2021. 

Her debut solo album Enchantée recorded with the National Lille Orchestra (conducted by Nicholas Skilbeck) was released with Warner Classics.

She is often invited for concerts in prestigious venues such as the Opera Comique, Theatre du Chatelet, Athenee Theatre, Olympia, Theatre Champs-Elysees, Grand Rex, Radio France, Bal Blomet, Salle Cortot, Nouveau Siècle in Lille, Crazy Coqs of London or New York’s Birdland. She also lent her voice to the lead characters of two original musical tales created by the Contraste Ensemble (Timothée de Fombelle’s Georgia and Siam by Arnaud Thorette). 

Marie Oppert has interpreted the lead role of Peau d’Ane at the Theatre Marigny (dir. Emilio Sagi), Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof (dir. Barrie Kosky) at National Opera du Rhin, Maria in West Side Story and Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady at Orleans' Arena Hall, Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (dir. Yann-Joël Collin, Theatre des Champs Elysees), Johanna in Sweeney Todd at the Reims Opera, Lucile in Quand La Guerre Sera Finie composed by Nicholas Skilbeck, Monique in the operetta Un Soir de Reveillon (Les Brigands company), Louise in The Musketeers at the Convent (Theatre Odeon of Marseille), Aglaia Ivanovna in Dostoievsky’s The Idiot (Theatre 14 of Paris / Avignon Festival OFF) and the roles of Miranda and Gonzalo in Shakespeare’s The Tempest (dir. Sandrine Anglade) on a french national tour. Marie also makes her movie debut in Tenor directed by Claude Zidi Jr. and will appear in TV mini series George Sand to be released in 2025. 

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CALENDAR

2024/2025

SEPT. 20 - OCT. 20  

LES FOURBERIES DE SCAPIN @Comédie-Française, China Tour

NOV. 16  

CHATELET MUSICAL CLUB @Théâtre du Châtelet 

NOV. 2O - JAN. 5

SANS FAMILLE @Comédie-Française 

JAN. 16

RECITAL FRENCH MELODIES @Salle Cortot

JAN. 18 - MAR. 9

LES SERGE @Comédie-Française

FEB. 10

RECITAL SHAKESPEARE @Thêatre de l'Athénée 

MAR. 6

ON NE BADINE PAS AVEC L'AMOUR @Comédie-Française, Web-TV 

MAR. 19 - JUL. 27 

LES SERGE @Comédie-Française, National Tour

JUN. 17 - JUL. 6 

SWEENEY TODD @Opéra National du Rhin

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"An astonishing stage presence" - OPERA MAGAZINE

"A voice not to be missed" - TELERAMA

"A star is born" - NATALIE DESSAY

"Marie Oppert is a gem !" - THE PARISIAN 

"The fairies have cast their enchanted spell : since childhood, Marie Oppert lives on the stage" - THE FIGARO 

"A true revelation..." - L'EXPRESS

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ALBUM "Enchantée" 

(Warner Classics)

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DVD "Umbrellas of Cherbourg" 

(Erato/Warner Classics)

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CD / DVD "Threepenny Opera" 

(Alpha classics)

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CD "Peau d'Ane" 

(Sony Music)

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CD BOOK "Siam" 

(Flammarion Jeunesse)

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CD BOOK "Georgia" 

(Gallimard Jeunesse)

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