Sandrine Mairesse

In 2018, Sandrine Mairesse will be taking on the role of Poppea from Monteverdi’s “L’Incoronazione di Poppea” and Papagena in “Die Zauberflöte”, a production by the opera group The Fat Lady. She made her professional début earlier this year as Amahl, in Menotti’s “Amahl and the Night Visitors”, at the Openluchttheater in Valkenburg. During her studies, she took part in different opera productions by the Conservatorium Maastricht, as L’Enfant in “L’Enfant et les Sortilèges”, Susanna in “Le Nozze di Figaro”, Mistery in “The Fairy Queen”, and Arminda in “La Finta Giardiniera”. Sandrine discovered classical singing at the age of 9, by entering the children’s choir of La Monnaie, the Royal Opera House of Brussels. There, she learned to work under the direction of internationally renowned conduc