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Axel Saint-Cyrel (born June 3, 1995) is a French mezzo-soprano. She became known to the general public after the performance of the French national anthem La Marseillaise At the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Saint-Cyrel was born in 1995 in a suburb of Paris. Her parents are from Guadeloupe. She spent part of her childhood in Malaysia, and then returned with her family and enrolled at the Conservatory in Montbéliard, where she studied lyrical singing. Thanks to this, Saint-Cyrel played the main role in the opera "Knox" by Jacopo Baboni-Schilingi. Performances took place in Tokyo, New York, Beijing and Shanghai.
In 2017, she enrolled at the Boulogne-Billancourt Graduate School, and in 2019 she continued her studies at the Paris Conservatoire.
In February 2024, Saint-Cyrel won the 5th Overseas Voices Competition, which was held at the Paris Opera. The broadcast was conducted on Culturebox.
She collaborated with Camelia Jordana and participated in the production of West Side Story, where she played the role of Anita at the Paris Conservatoire.
On July 26, 2024, Saint-Cyrel sang The Marseillaise* at the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympic Games in Paris. She was sitting on the roof of a large palace.