Born in Switzerland, Marina Viotti grew up in France, studying literature and philosophy in Lyon before vocal training in Lausanne and her debut in 2011 in Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle. She sang in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges during 2014–16 and took the role of Mrs Grose in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw.
A winner of various competitions, she sang the newspaper vendor in Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias at Opéra Lausanne and Marthe in Gounod’s Faust. In Bad Wildbad she made her debut as Isabella in L’Italiana in Algeri in 2015 and in the same year won the Academy Bel Canto Prize.