First prize winner of the Competition for Baroque Opera Cesti 2018 and of the Concours International de Belcanto Vincenzo Bellini 2017, and recipient of the Audience Prizes at the Concours de chant de Toulouse 2019 and at the London Handel Singing Competition 2016, Marie Lys has collaborated with conductors such as Ottavio Dantone, Christophe Rousset, Emmanuelle Haïm, Fabio Biondi, Diego Fasolis, Dmitry Sinkovsky, Gianluca Capuano, Maxim Emelyanychev, Alessandro de Marchi, Michel Corboz and Laurence Cummings.
Performance venues include Wigmore Hall, Buckingham Palace and Kings Place (London), Auditorio Nacional de Música (Madrid), Sociedad Filarmónica (Bilbao), Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon), Casa da Música (Porto), Tokyo International Forum and Yomiuri Otemachi Hall (Tokyo).
She sang with orchestras such as Europa Galante, Les Talens Lyriques, Sinfonia Varsovia, The English Concert, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Cameristi della Scala and Les Musiciens du Prince-Monaco.
Most recently, Marie stepped in for Cecilia Bartoli in the title role of Handel’s Alcina at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
On the operatic stage she performed the roles of Adelaide (Lotario) at the Konzert Theater Bern and Göttingen International Handel Festival, Dorinda (Orlando) at the Festival Castell de Peralada, Dalinda (Ariodante) at the London Handel Festival, Galatea (Acis and Galatea) at the Opéra de Massy, Lisa (La Sonnambula), Adele (Die Fledermaus) and L’Amour (Orphée et Eurydice) at the Opéra de Lausanne, Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare in Egitto) at the Bury Court Opera, Servilia (La Clemenza di Tito), Yniold (Pelléas et Mélisande) and Clorinda (La Cenerentola) at the Grand Théâtre de Genève.
In 2015 she won the First Prize at the Göttinger Reihe Historischer Musik Competition with the Abchordis Ensemble, that she co-founded in 2011. Their two recordings, “Stabat Mater” and “Dies Irae”, were published by Sony DHM.
After a Bachelor in Music at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne with a Prize for the best recital, Marie studied at the Royal College of Music in London where she graduated with First Class Honours in 2014, before joining their International Opera School, graduating in 2016 with an Artist Diploma in Opera.
She won twice the Concours de chant du Pour-cent culturel Migros, and she received the support of the Leenaards, Irène Dénéréaz, Colette Mosetti and Friedl Wald Foundations, and of both the Drake Calleja and Josephine Baker Trusts. She is a Samling Artist.
For Naïve, Marie has recorded Vivaldi’s long-lost opera Argippo under the baton of Fabio Biondi with Europa Galante (issued in November 2020, followed by a tour through Europe). Again with Maestro Biondi, she performs Bellezza in Handel’s Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno in Granada and the title role in Donizetti’s opera buffa Betly for the Chopin and His Europe Festival in Warsaw.
Recent and future engagements include Morgana in Alcina, Sophie in Werther and Cunegonde in Candide at the Opéra de Lausanne, a "Stabat Mater" programme with Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques in Norway and Germany, Handel’s Messiah with Franco Fagioli at the Château de Versailles, Vivaldi’s Il Tamerlano in an italian tour with Ottavio Dantone, Vivaldi’s Il Giustino with Andrea Marcon, Lully’s Thésée with Christophe Rousset and a concert with Leonardo García Alarcón at Auditorium de Radio France.
With her ensemble Abchordis she also presents a new programme of unpublished baroque opera arias of which a recording, “Amate Stelle” will be published in January 2023 by Glossa.