Maïlys de Villoutreys

After a few years of studying violin, at the age of 9 years old Maïlys de Villoutreys joined the Maitrise de Bretagne choir where she discovered singing with Jean-Michel Noël, participating in numerous concerts, recordings and tours. While pursuing Italian studies at University, she studied at music conservatoire in Rennes with Martine Surais, and then with Isabelle Guillaud and Alain Buet Guillaud at the Paris conservatoire, where she obtained her Masters in 2011. Maïlys Villoutreys made her stage début at a young age interpreting child roles at the Opera de Rennes (Sophie in Let’s Make An Opera by Britten, Yniold in Pelléas et Mélisande). Later, she performed Miss Ellen in Lakmé at the Opéra de Rouen, Aspasia in La Pietra del Paragone (Rossini) at the Teatro Regio of Parma, and interpreted several roles in the Mozart operas: Barberina and Pamina at the Paris Conservatoire, the Queen of the Night (ed. N. Krüger), and more recently in Melia Apollo and Hyacinth, at the Cité de la Musique in Paris. At the Versailles Royal Opera, she sang Amour (Orpheus and Eurydice, Gluck) directed by G. Grazioli and Clarine (Plataea, Rameau) with JC Malgoire. Passionate about chamber music, she has sung lied and mélodie with pianist Ivan Couëffé, and together with harpist Delphine Benhamou has formed the Asturiana duo. Her great interest in baroque repertory has led her to perform with many ensembles and performs regularly with the Folies Françoises and also with Amaryllis, Pygmalion, the Ricercar Consort, Les Musiciens du Paradis, the Desmarest ensemble the Simphonie du Marais … In 2012, she recorded the cantata Clytemnestra by Cherubini with the Kölner Akademie (dir. Michael Willens) under the CPO label.