Considered one of the most promising singers of her generation, Amel Brahim-Djelloul started her musical studies with the violin. She began studying singing in 1995 in Algiers under the tuition of Abdelhamid Belferouni. It was Noelle Barker who advised her to go to Paris to finish her training, and she studied at the Ecole Nationale de Musique at Montreuil with Frantz Petri and then at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris with Peggy Bouveret and Malcolm Walker, with whom she has since been working. She graduated from the Conservatoire in June 2003. Amel Brahim-Djelloul began very early to tackle the key roles in her repertoire. In 2002 she sang Dido in Purcell's opera under Stephen Stubb, and went on to make her debut in the role of Pamina with the Orchestre Nationale d'Ile de France with Alain Altinoglu conducting. René Jacobs noticed her and invited her to take par…
