Stéphanie d'Oustrac
Mezzo-Soprano
The French mezzo Stéphanie d’Oustrac was born in 1974 in Rennes, and is the great-niece of the composer Francis Poulenc. Initially intending to pursue a career as an actress, she studied in Lyon, where she came to the attention of William Christie, with whom she would go on to record the title-role in Lully’s Armide and Cybèle in his Atys, Irene in Theodora, and Argie in Rameau’s Les Paladins.
