Equally at ease in baroque and more recent repertoire, soprano Apolline Raï-Westphal performs during the 2026–2027 season the title role in Cendrillon by Pauline Viardot on tour with La CoOpérative, the role of Vénus (Vénus et Adonis by Blow) with Le Banquet Céleste, Minerve (Le Carnaval de Venise by Campra) with Il Caravaggio, and appears with Les Talens lyriques in Campra’s Requiem and a Monteverdi/Cavalli recital.

Her young career has led her to perform Suzanne (Robinson Crusoé by Offenbach) at Angers-Nantes Opéra and the Opéra de Rennes, Phénice and Lucinde (Armide by Gluck) at the Opéra Comique, Belinda (Didon et Enée by Purcell) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Melpomène and Mélisse (Atys by Lully) at the Wiener Konzerthaus and the Opéra royal de Versailles, Chloé (Narcisse by Joséphine Stephenson) at the Opéra de Rennes, Minerve (Le Carnaval de Venise by Campra) at the Opéras de Nantes and Rennes and on French tour, the title role in La petite Sirène by Régis Campo at the Opéras de Nice and Avignon, as well as Servante in Sancta Susanna by Hindemith and the soprano solo in La Danse des morts by Honegger at the Opéra de Nancy.

In baroque repertoire, she regularly collaborates with conductors such as Christophe Rousset, Leonardo García Alarcón, Camille Delaforge, Stéphane Fuget, Thibault Noally, Alexis Kossenko, and Johannes Pramsohler.

In concert, she has performed under the direction of Jean-Claude Casadesus alongside Karine Deshayes at the festival Les Étoiles du Classique, under the baton of Jean-François Heisser with the Orchestre de chambre Nouvelle-Aquitaine in Trois Poèmes de Mallarmé by Ravel, in recital at the Capitole de Toulouse with Anne Le Bozec in the program Mozart jeune homme, and also with Bertrand Chamayou and Noemi Gasparini in a program of French mélodies; she also forms a duo with pianist Paul Coispeau.

A brilliant graduate of the CNSMD de Paris, she has won several competitions: First Prize in French mélodie at the Concours international de Marmande 2024, the prize of the Académie Ravel de Saint-Jean-de-Luz, and six awards at the Concours international de la mélodie de Gordes in 2023. She was part of the Brahms cohort of the Académie Musicale Philippe Jarrousky in 2023–2024.

Her recordings include the roles of Melpomène and Mélisse in Atys by Lully with Les Talens lyriques; upcoming releases include Récit de la beauté, excerpt from Le Mariage forcé by Lully conducted by Camille Delaforge, as well as Les Fêtes de Ramire by Rameau with La Chapelle Harmonique.

Apolline Raï-Westphal has been represented by RSBA since 2025.