| Biography | Born in Paris, Aristidou began her musical training as a member of the Maîtrise de Radio France. She studied musicology at the Sorbonne and graduated in music theory at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Paris in 2011. Beginning in 2010, she studied singing at the Universität der Künste Berlin, and from 2014 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. She received her master's degree at the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding.
Aristidou appeared in world premieres of contemporary music by composers such as Wolfgang Rihm, Jörg Widmann and Manfred Trojahn.[5] Aribert Reimann composed Cinq Fragments français de Rainer Maria Rilke especially for her voice, and she premiered it in 2015 at the Liederwerkstatt of the Kissinger Sommer festival.
She has worked with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Trevor Pinnock and Simon Rattle, and with orchestras including the Berliner Philharmoniker, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Gürzenich Orchestra. She was a member of the international opera studio of the Berlin State Opera from 2017 to 2019. In the 2020/21 season, she appeared at the State Opera as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, and performed at the Heidelberger Frühling and the Salzburg Festival. |