After studying at the Institut de musique et de pédagogie de Namur, Jodie Devos won the Second Prize and the Audience Prize of the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition of Belgium (2014).

Devos had already performed under the direction of conductors such as Mikko Franck, Leonardo García Alarcón, Philippe Jordan, Louis Langrée, Marc Minkowski, Christophe Rousset and others, and in productions by Romeo Castellucci, Denis Podalydès, John Turturro and Robert Wilson.

Highlights of her young career include productions of Die Zauberflöte at La Monnaie and Opéra National de Paris; Les Contes d'Hoffmann and Les Indes galantes at Opéra National de Paris; Il barbiere di Siviglia, Le comte Ory, Le nozze di Figaro and La fille du régiment at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège; Dialogues des Carmélites in Toulouse; Guillaume Tell at Chorégies d'Orange; and Die Entführung aus dem Serail in Monte Carlo.

Recent roles have included Gabrielle (La vie parisienne), Adina (L'elisir d'amore), Marie (La fille du régiment) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées ; Gilda (Rigoletto), Philine (Mignon) and Lakmé (Lakmé) at Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège ; Ophélie (Hamlet) in Liège and at the Festival de Radio France in Montpellier ; Julie Follavoine (On purge bébé!) in La Monnaie ; and Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor) in Tours and Québec.

Among her recent and future projects are Un ballo in maschera in Barcelona ; Fantasio at Opéra Comique ; L’Olimpiade, Dialogues des Carmélites and Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées ; Mitridate in Lausanne ; and L’enfant et les sortilèges in Monte Carlo…

Jodie Devos records exclusively for the Alpha Classics label.

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