French soprano Elsa Benoit has established herself as a sought-after artist known for her stylistic versatility and refined tonal quality, with a repertoire spanning from Baroque to contemporary music. After earning her bachelor’s degree at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, she completed her master’s with distinction at the Dutch National Opera Academy. During her studies, she won multiple international singing competitions, including “Symphonies d’Automne” and the MACM competition.

Her first permanent engagement was at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt in 2015/16, where she performed roles such as Tytania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Giulietta (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Despina (Così fan tutte), and Micaëla (Carmen), the latter earning her the Austrian Music Theatre Prize. She then joined the ensemble of the Bavarian State Opera, excelling in roles including Oscar (Un ballo in maschera), Musetta (La Bohème), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Adina (L’Elisir d’Amore), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Emilie (Les Indes galantes), and Poppea in Handel’s Agrippina—a role she recorded in 2019 for Warner Classics; the recording was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording.

Since 2021, Benoit has worked freelance, appearing at the Opéra Comique and Palais Garnier in Paris, and at opera houses in Cologne, Berlin (Komische Oper), Dresden (Semperoper), Bologna, Lille, Rennes, Nantes, Angers, and Théâtre de Caen. She has been featured at major festivals such as Glyndebourne, Salzburg, Aix-en-Provence, and Schleswig-Holstein. Her celebrated roles include Morgana (Alcina), Semele (Semele), Anne Trulove (The Rake’s Progress), Thérèse (Les Mamelles de Tirésias), Leïla (Les Pêcheurs de Perles), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Sophie (Werther, Der Rosenkavalier), and the title role in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea.

An internationally acclaimed concert soloist, Benoit has collaborated with leading orchestras such as the Berlin, Vienna, and Munich Philharmonics, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Pittsburgh Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Stuttgart Bach Academy, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, and Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich. She has worked with distinguished conductors including Robin Ticciati, Alan Gilbert, Emmanuelle Haïm, Andris Nelsons, Herbert Blomstedt, Jonathan Nott, Vladimir Jurowski, and Klaus Mäkelä.

The 2025/26 season features numerous highlights: Benoit will perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 under Paavo Järvi with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest. She will also sing Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 at the Opéra National de Lyon under Jader Bignamini and with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under Robin Ticciati. Together with the Singakademie Zurich, she will tour Helsinki, Bern, and Zurich with Haydn’s The Seasons. At the Vienna Konzerthaus, she will perform Poulenc’s Stabat Mater under Marie Jacquot, before taking on the title role in Rameau’s Scylla et Glaucus at the Zurich Opera House under the baton of Emmanuelle Haïm.

For more information, please visit www.elsabenoit.com.