A team of enthusiasts, most of them volunteers, keeps the competition alive all year round.
Nicola Oppermann-Labourdette
President and Head of PR
Nicola Oppermann-Labourdette
President
From Germany, Nicola Oppermann-Labourdette has been working since 1987 as a corporate sponsorship manager in painting, sculpture and music.
Her vocation for cultural sponsorship became clear during a first experience in a construction industry group.
She joined the ranks of Paris Opera Competition in 2012 in charge of sponsorship, developing partnerships with companies, individuals and institutions.
Nicolas Bossière
General Secretary
Nicolas Bossière
General Secretary
Nicolas is the founder and CEO of Activa Informatique, founded in 2007, specializing in the management of network and system infrastructures. He joined the Paris Opera Competition in 2010, helping manage strategic and digital development. He became the General Secretary in 2018.
Anne Gubian
Artistic Director
A graduate of the Institut d’Études Politiques de Lyon (Sciences Po Lyon), with a postgraduate degree (DESS) in information and communication techniques from Université Paris II, she founded Orfea Com&Prod in 2015, a company specialising in communication and the production of cultural events, after twelve years as promotion director at Universal Classics & Jazz.
She has been artistic director of the Victoires de la Musique Classique for eight years and took over the artistic direction of the Competition in 2023.
Camille Glas
General Manager
Camille Glas
General Manager
Camille Glas graduated from Sciences-Po Paris in 2016. As a singer herself, she enjoys performing and working behind-the-scenes in the opera industry. She joined the Paris Opera Competition team in 2016 to assist the co-founder and previous general secretary, Isabelle de Montaigu, before taking over the general management of the Competition in February 2017.
She is also a board member of La Fabrique Opéra Seine-Saint-Denis and President of the think tank Narrative Power Initiative.
Olivia Kahler
Community Manager
Olivia Kahler manages the Paris Opera Competition’s branding and communications, and joined the team in 2020.
She graduated with a Bachelor of the Arts with honors from Montana State University, a Certificat de mélodie française and a Diplôme Supérieur de Concertiste from Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. With her knowledge of music and performing, she created the agency Lark in the Oak, LLC, which specializes in managing the branding and communications of artists, art organizations and luxury brands.
Florence Alayrac
Stage director
Originally an actress, a graduate of the Conservatoire in Paris and holder of a DEM (advanced diploma) in opera singing from the CRR 93, Florence Alayrac has performed on stage in a wide range of operetta and opera roles.
For more than twenty years she has championed music for all: she leads Voice&Acting workshops and masterclasses alongside eminent singing teachers and coaches young singers in stage performance.
A regular of unconventional, immersive and off-site formats in the performing arts, and committed to making great works accessible to everyone, Florence Alayrac takes part in, adapts and designs a wide variety of artistic programmes (Carmen, La Traviata, Così fan tutte, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, La Vie parisienne, La Scala di seta…).
She has notably worked with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Orchestre Victor Hugo, the Orchestre Prométhée, Les Frivolités Parisiennes, the Orchestre Pasdeloup, Les Muses Galantes, the Bolshoi Young Artists Opera Program and the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, in prestigious venues such as the Bolshoi Theatre, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Palais Garnier, the Victoria Hall, the Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne and many other stages in France and abroad.
Deeply committed to young audiences, she created and directed Discor’Danses with the Orchestre Prométhée (Moments lyriques de Chartres) and has co-directed Rendez-vous Conte, the Orchestre Victor Hugo’s participatory programmes, since their first season (L’Impératrice des musiciens, new production in 2026).
Since 2019, Paris Opera Competition has entrusted her with the stage direction of its international opera competition.
