Andréa Guiot has been played on NTS shows including Tafelmusik w/ Francesco Fusaro, with Carmen first played on 2 October 2022.

Andréa Guiot was born on January 11th, 1928 on the family farm of Rapatel, at Garons-Saint Gilles near to Nimes, close to the Camargue, on the road to Saintes-Maries de la Mer. At twelve years of age, a performance of Hérodiade, in her native town with José Luccioni decided her vocation. After studying singing with a local tenor called Santalouna, she enrolled in the Paris Conservatoire where she was a pupil of Ketty Lapeyrette and Louis Noguéra. After having won her first prizes and also the "Prix Osiris", she began a career in the provinces, in 1954, where she attracted attention with her pure and powerful lyric soprano voice, with its brilliant top and full middle range and her exemplary diction and musicality. In 1956, she made her debut at the Opéra-Comique as Antonia in "The Tales of Hoffmann" and a year later at the Opéra as the Virgin Erygone in "The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian." Until 1972 she appeared regularly at the Salle Favart, in the roles of Manon, Mimi, Micaèla, Eurydice, Fiordiligi (alternating with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf), Madame Lidoine, Mireille (notably on the centenary of the premiere at the the Théâtre Lyrique"), Louise, Soeur Angélique and Cio-cio San. The Palais Garnier also presented her in the same period as Marguerite, Micaèla ( when Carmen entered the repertoire of the Opéra in 1959), Marceline in Fidelio, Donna Elvira, Liu, Juliette, Violetta, Alice ford, and Teresa in Benvenuto Cellini… From 1973 to 1976 Rolf Liebermann cast her in Parsifal (Flowermaiden), La Bohème (Mimi) and La Walkyrie (Helmwige). As well as appearing in French provincial theatres, Andréa Guiot sang with success in other countries; The Netherlands, Britain, Belgium, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, the United States and Argentina. Andréa Guiot ended her theatrical career at Strasbourg, in 1975, as Elisabeth de Valois in Don Carlos. She then devoted herself completely to the teaching of singing, notably at Lyon and in Paris. Today. Retired to the farm where she was born, the singer practices her talents as a painter, while keeping in contact with the young singers for whom she always maintainsa warm reception. Andréa Guiot is a "Chevalier in the Ordre National du Mérite" and a "Commandeur des Arts et Lettres."