Eric Huchet

Éric Huchet (born December 1, 1962 in Torcé-en-Vallée ) is a French opera singer ( lyric tenor ).

Life

Huchet studied at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Paris and graduated with First Prize in 1992. In the same year, the Fondation pour la vocation Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet awarded him a scholarship, which enabled him to continue his studies with Walter Berry at the Vienna University of Music .

Since then, Huchet has performed at numerous French opera houses, at the Zurich Opera House and at the Grand Théâtre de Genève , as well as at the Opéra de Monaco . His repertoire includes the Mozart roles Belmonte , Ferrando and Monostatos , Count Almaviva in Barbiere di Siviglia , Jaquino in Fidelio , Merlot in Tristan and Isolde and Heinrich the Schreiber in Tannhäuser , as well as Bardolfo , Beppe , Maler and Chevalier de la Force . Huchet has also appeared in a number of world premieres, including Vladimir Cosmas Marius et Fanny and Philippe Fénélon's Faust .

Huchet's repertoire also includes operas comiques and operettas : Directed by Jérôme Savary , he appeared more than 150 times in La Périchole at the Théâtre national de Chaillot and at the Opéra-Comique , and he also sang in La vie parisienne and La Mascotte von Edmond Audran . He was also seen and heard in all Jacques Offenbach productions of the lead duo Marc Minkowski and Laurent Pelly - as Aristée-Pluton on Orphée aux enfers in Geneva and Lyon, as Achille La Belle Hélène and as Le Prince Paul in La Grande- Duchesse de Gérolstein at the Théâtre du Châtelet , as well as Spalanzani in Les Contes d'Hoffmann in Lausanne.

Other roles of the singer are Count Elemer Arabella and Truffaldino in The Love of the Three Oranges , the four servant roles in Les Contes d'Hoffmann , Normanno , Harry and First Armor at the Opéra National de Paris , King Ouf I in Chabriers L'étoile in Nancy and a number of smaller roles in Bordeaux. In 2014 Huchet made his debut at the Salzburg Festival . In the world premiere of Marc-André Dalbavie's opera Charlotte Salomon , he sang the Pope, the Propaganda Minister, the Art Professor, the First Nazi, a Man, and the Second Emigrant. The composer conducted it.

In the concert hall, Éric Huchet sang under the conductors Marc Minkowski , Semjon Bytschkow , Eliahu Inbal and John Nelson .

Achille in La Belle Hélène , Théâtre Musical de Paris, 2000
Le Prince Paul in La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein , Théâtre Musical de Paris, 2004
Cochineal in Les Contes d'Hoffmann , Grand Théâtre de Genève , 2008
Graf Elemer in Arabella , Opéra National de Paris , 2012
Franz in Les Contes d'Hoffmann , Opéra National de Paris, 2012
Monostatos in the Magic Flute , Angers-Nantes Opéra, 2014
Alfred in the bat , Opéra de Tours , 2014

personal data
SURNAME	Huchet, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French opera singer (lyric tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH	December 1, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Torcé-en-Vallée