Cécile Restier studied vocal accompaniment (song and opera) and piano at the Conservatoire National de Musique et Danse in her home city of Paris. As part of her studies, she won three first prizes and was also entrusted with accompanying singing classes, vocal ensembles and diction courses between 2003 and 2007.

In 2007, she took up an engagement as a solo repetiteur at the Frankfurt Opera and has held the same position at the Vienna State Opera since 2012. She taught French diction and phonetics at the MUK Vienna.

Guest engagements have taken Cécile Restier to the Salzburg and Bregenz Festivals, the Bard Summer Festival (USA), French opera houses such as the Opéra-Comique and the Théâtre du Châtelet Paris, the operas in Lyon, Rouen and Montpellier as well as the Théâtre La Monnaie Brussels, the Philharmonie de Paris and the Accademia Santa Cecilia di Roma.

She has worked with conductors such as Alain Altinoglu, Marco Armiliato, Bertrand de Billy, Paolo Carignani, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Frédéric Chaslin, William Christie, Plácido Domingo, Gustavo Dudamel, Christoph Eschenbach, Dan Ettinger, Asher Fisher, Mikko Frank and John Eliot Gardiner, Jésus López Cobos, Ingo Metzmacher, Marc Minkowski, Evelino Pidò and Simone Young, as well as with singers such as Roberto Alagna, Piotr Beczała, Plácido Domingo, Juan Diego Flórez, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Angela Gheorghiu, Peter Mattei, George Petean, Neil Shicoff, Nina Stemme and Béatrice Uria Monzon. Cécile Restier regularly performs as a soloist in recitals and concerts. She has performed with Juan Diego Flórez at the Vienna State Opera, the Musikverein Graz and the Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona, among others.

She performed at the Metropolitan Opera New York for the 2021 New Year's Eve Gala.

Born into a Moroccan family in 1993, Amelle Parys began studying music with piano, viola and choir at the age of five at the Conservatoire Départemental du Blanc-Mesnil.

After an internship in artistic and musical direction with the Pasdeloup Orchestra, she joined the Aubervilliers regional conservatory in piano and music theory.

In 2009, she joined Jacques Calatayud's lyric singing class at the Nadia and Lili Boulanger Conservatory in Paris (9th arr.) until 2012 - when she passed her exams and obtained her baccalaureate in Music and Dance Technique at the Lycée Jean de la Fontaine in Paris. After obtaining her diplomas at the Aubervilliers Regional Conservatory in piano and musical culture, she joined a lyric singing programme at the Institut de Chant de Bourgogne under the guidance of Mr Jean-Pierre Blivet.

Over the years, Amelle has taken part in numerous masterclasses with renowned artists such as Christian Segaricci, Bojidar Nikolov, Peter Valentovic, Sylvie Valayre and Jennifer Larmore.

Frequently invited to participate in numerous concerts and festivals, such as the Nice festival C'est pas classique, Amelle Parys is looking back at being a finalist in several reputable competitions such as "Jeune Espoir" competition of the Avignon Opera (2015), the Bologna International Competition (2019) and won the 1. Prize at the Ljuba Welitsch competition in Vienna (2018).

Under the patronage of the Menuhin Gstaad Festival, she joined the Gstaad Vocal Academy, directed by Silvana-Bartoli, for the 2019 season. Following this, she participated in Menuhin Gstaad Festival that same summer season.

During the year 2020 Amelle was to sing the soprano part of Egmont by Beethoven at the Beethoven Plus Festival in Altausse in Austria and sing the role of Hansel of Hansel & Gretel at the Das Off Theater in Vienna. Unfortunately they were cancelled due to the Covid crisis.

During the 2020 pandemic, Amelle had the opportunity to i.a. work with filmmaker/director Simon Stone, Cyril Teste and director Barrie Kosky on acting credits.

Since 2021, Amelle Parys has been working regularly with the Vienna State Opera, where she has performed roles such as Berenice in Clemenza di Tito and Le Peuple in Dialogues des Carmélites.

In 2024, Amelle is part of Festival Plus Beethoven for Mass Deo Gratis (comp. Franz Reichhold) and for the closing concert Mass f-minor (comp. Anton Bruckner) and integrates the Vienna State Opera Choir.

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