The teaching team
Who are we?
Our ambition:
“Enhance the technique &
free the performer!”
France DARIZ was introduced to the demands of bel canto at a very young age by the Franco-Italian tenor Jean-Claude Costa. During eight years of intensive training, she explored the works of Bellini, Donizetti, and Rossini with rigor and passion. This stylistic foundation, based on flexibility, listening, patience, and controlled emotion, became the keystone of her vocal approach.
Over the years, she trained with great figures in singing, stage performance, and musical direction (Yvonne Minton, Lise Arseguet, Tom Krause, Michel Plasson, etc.), enriching her interpretation with a vision of the voice that is at once linguistic, physiological, and cultural. For her, each language calls for a different vocal gesture, and each composer inscribes precise emotional indications in the score that must be read and embodied. Opera is not only a matter of technique, but of stylistic intelligence, historical understanding, and sensitive abandon.
His teaching method is based today on a strong idea: the right sound is born from the right causes, not from the desired effects. Singing is about thinking correctly, not about accumulating automatisms. His teaching therefore invites us to distinguish between what we need to know to sing (knowledge) and what we need to think to sing (simplicity of intention).
Bearer of a demanding and deeply vibrant vocal heritage, France Dariz feels invested with a duty: to transmit this invaluable knowledge, so that it is never lost, and to accompany singers in a quest for authenticity, freedom and emotion.
Christine CRAIPEAU combines a solid artistic background with proven expertise in accompaniment. Trained in opera singing at the Angers Conservatory (class of Yves Sotin), in Nantes (with Annie Tacet), holding a degree in musicology (Sorbonne) and having studied at the CNIPAL in Marseille, she anchors her approach in musical rigor and the art of the stage.
Gradually, she broadened her scope to include training and personal development: BrainGym® certified (2015), professional coach (2019), holder of the Professional Title of Adult Trainer, skills assessment consultant and MBTI® practitioner, she supports everyone on a personalized path of development.
Passionate about person-centered methods, she trained with inspiring figures such as Jacques and Valéria Salomé, Rudolf Bautz, Yvonne Minton, Tom Krause, and Marcelle Della Faille.
Recognized for her dynamism, creativity, and adaptability, Christine designs tailor-made training courses that combine artistic excellence with human development. With her, the voice becomes a vehicle for expression, transformation, and the revelation of potential.
Noélie LANTIN is a vocal coach, pianist, and teacher, renowned for her sensitive and rigorous accompaniment of opera singers. Trained at the Montpellier Conservatory (with Laetitia Bougnol), then at the CRR du Grand Avignon (piano with Véronique Muzy, accompaniment with Françoise Ponzo), she earned her gold medal in three years. At the same time, she studied modern literature at Paul Valéry University, with work devoted to the musical setting of poetry and the symbolist universe.
Her career led her to collaborate very early on with leading figures in singing and conducting: she accompanied students of Maestro Gabriel Bacquier, worked under the direction of Michel Piquemal, Peter Christopoulos and Arnold Schiffman, and participated in stage productions combining theater and singing with F. Gioria-Guiral and G. Voillemet. In 2019, she was asked to prepare the choirs of the Capitole de Toulouse and Monte-Carlo for Rossini's Guillaume Tell, at the Chorégies d'Orange, under the direction of Maestro Gianluca Visconti.
A teacher at the CRR du Grand Avignon since 2012, she coordinates the keyboard department (13 teachers), accompanies Catherine Thomasset's opera singing class, leads advanced training courses and is involved in inclusive mediation projects. A committed artist, she is a referent for CALMS (Collective of Opera Artists and Musicians in Solidarity) and has been organizing charity concerts at the Opéra du Grand Avignon since 2021, bringing together around fifty professional singers.
