Born in Paris on July 17, 1993, Franco-Italian mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre began
her career as a ballet dancer, before turning to opera singing after an
accident. A chorister with the Maîtrise de l'Opéra de Paris at the age of
twelve, she went on to study at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de
Boulogne-Billancourt, and took lessons in Venice with Sara Mingardo, then
Véronique Gens. She then joined David Stern's Opera Fuoco troupe for her debut
in the creation of Nicolas Bacri's Cosi fanciulli at the Théâtre des
Champs-Élysées (2014), then William Christie's baroque music e...