Jodie Devos

Belgian soprano Jodie Devos was born in Libramont-Chevigny on 10 October 1988 and began to take singing classes aged five. She studied with Élise Gäbele and Benoît Giaux at the Institut Supérieur de Musique et de Pédagogie in Namur, with Lillian Watson at the Royal Academy of Music in London and she took masterclasses with Helmut Deutsch, J Streets and Marc Minkowski.

SHe sang with the Studio of the Opéra-Comique in Paris - Serpina in La Serva padrona, Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and Miss Wordsworth in Albert Herring were some of her early roles. She achieved second place and the audience prize in the 2014 Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels.

She sang in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Poland, UK and the USA, and she released three solo albums - in 2019, 2021 and 2022.

Jodie Devos died in Paris on 16 June 2024, from breast cancer, aged only thirty-five.

 

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