Charlotte Bonnet comes from a family with three generations of musicians and began her musical studies at the Conservatoire de l’Aveyron. In 2015 she was awarded her singing prize with distinction and her Diplôme d’Études Musicales at the Montauban conservatoire. Alongside her conservatoire training, she studied jazz musicology at the Université Toulouse II Le Mirail, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in 2013.

At 23 she won the First Opera Prize by unanimous decision at the Concours National de Béziers, the Second Prize for Opera and French Mélodie at the Marmande International Competition, and the Prize of the Office Franco-Québécois pour la Jeunesse, which led to three concerts and an opera gala in Montreal. In 2017, at the Marseille International Competition, she received the Young Hope Prize of the CFPL (Centre Français de Promotion Lyrique). In 2019 she won the First Women’s Prize at the Arles International Competition. In 2022 she won Second Prize for Opera at the Capri International Competition (Italy), and at the Enescu International Competition she took Second Prize for Opera as well as the Génération Opéra Prize. In 2024 she won First Prize at the Mozart Competition Vienna.

She made her stage debut at 20 as Belinda (Dido and Aeneas), going on to sing Rosine in a French version of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, Frasquita (Carmen) and Annina/Flora (La traviata, concert version).

She has also sung leading roles in opéra comique and Viennese operetta, including Clairette (La Fille de Madame Angot), the title role in Véronique, Nadia (The Merry Widow), Violetta (Violettes impériales), Wanda (La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein), Germaine (Les Cloches de Corneville), Lady Mary (Monsieur Beaucaire) and Franzi (A Waltz Dream).

She has also appeared as the First Niece (Peter Grimes) at the Opéra Grand Avignon, Noémie (Cendrillon) at the Opéra de Paris, Rose in Lakmé at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Anna in Gounod’s La Nonne sanglante at the Opéra de Saint-Étienne and Zerlina in Don Giovanni at the Festival de Sanxay. In 2023 she was the guest soloist at the Opéra de Montpellier’s New Year’s Concert.

She is now turning more and more towards the lyric and even spinto repertoire. Recently she has sung Pamina at the Opéra Grand Avignon, Micaëla at Theater Basel, Musetta at the Festival de Sanxay, Hilda (Sigurd, Opéra de Marseille) and Suzel (L’amico Fritz).

This season she will sing Lucía (Martín Palmeri’s Mateo), Eurydice (Orpheus in the Underworld), Alice (Falstaff), the First Nymph (Rusalka), Liù (Turandot) and the First Lady (Die Zauberflöte).