Who is Axelle Fanyo?
Axelle Fanyo
soprano
Axelle Fanyo made her Concertgebouw debut in February 2023 in the Recital Hall with pianist Julius Drake. A year later she returned with the ECHO Rising Stars tour.
The French-born soprano studied musicology at the Sorbonne in Paris, won a violin prize from the Conservatoire in La Courneuve and in 2016 she received her master’s in voice from Glenn Chambers.

Rising Stars: Axelle Fanyo
Rising Stars: Axelle Fanyo
She has done masterclasses with Véronique Gens, Waltraud Meier and Felicity Lott and in 2019 she was a member of Renée Fleming’s Song Studio at Carnegie Hall. Since then, her career as an opera, concert and lieder singer has gone into higher gear.
This season she will sing in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites at the Opéra de Rouen Normandie and in Massenet’s Thaïs at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon. Recent appearances include Mozart’s Requiem, Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder and Stravinsky’s L’histoire du soldat.
She has done masterclasses with Véronique Gens, Waltraud Meier and Felicity Lott and in 2019 she was a member of Renée Fleming’s Song Studio at Carnegie Hall. Since then, her career as an opera, concert and lieder singer has gone into higher gear.
This season she will sing in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites at the Opéra de Rouen Normandie and in Massenet’s Thaïs at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon. Recent appearances include Mozart’s Requiem, Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder and Stravinsky’s L’histoire du soldat.
Bijgewerkt op zondag 13 april 2025