After studies at the La Maîtrise of the Opéra National de Lyon, the Royal College of Music in London, the Centre national d’insertion professionnelle des artistes lyriques (CNIPAL) in Marseille and L’Atelier lyrique of the Opéra national de Paris, Olivia Doray was named a 2008 Révélation Lyrique de l’Adami Lyric artist.

Her first performances included Musetta in La Bohème with the British Youth Opera, Viardot’s Cendrillon at the Amphitheatre at the Opéra National de Lyon, Anna in Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, and Karolka in Jenůfa. She then appeared in Orphée et Eurydice in Bordeaux, La Cenerentola in Massy, Fidelio,