Ludovic Tézier

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As Conte d'Almaviva, Madrid 2010

Ludovic Tézier (born 1968 in Marseille ) is a French opera singer with a baritone voice .

life and work

Tézier was a member of the Lucerne theater company before he was accepted into the Atelier Lyrique de l'Opéra de Lyon . At the beginning of his career he was successful as Mozart's Count Almaviva and Don Giovanni , as well as in belcanto roles such as Donizetti's Belcore and Malatesta , but soon also as Marcello (in La Bohème ) and as Ford (in Falstaff ). His extensive repertoire today includes the title roles in Ambroise Thomas ' Hamlet , Eugen Onegin and Werther (in the baritone version), Wolfram in Tannhäuser - one of his favorite roles - and the Jeletzki in Pique Dame , Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor , and Alphonse XI in La favorite , the Méphistophélès La damnation de Faust , the Don Escamillo in Carmen and the Scarpia in Tosca , as well as the Verdi roles Renato , Don Carlo , Don Carlo di Vargas , Conte di Luna , Marchese di Posa and Giorgio Germont .

Today Ludovic Tézier is one of the internationally most sought-after singers in his vocal field and has made guest appearances at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Vienna State Opera , the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Opéra National de Paris , the Paris Théâtre des Champs-Élysées , the Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse and the Opéra de Marseille , the Scala in Milan , the Theater de la Monnaie in Bruxelles and the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, ​​at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence , the Chorégies d'Orange and in the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden . He also sang at the opera houses in Berlin, Bilbao, Bordeaux, Madrid, Monte Carlo, Montpellier, Munich and Turin.

At the Salzburg Whitsun Festival in 2012, the singer made his debut as Marc-Antoine in a concert performance of Massenet's Cléopâtre . In the spring of 2015 he gave Amonasro in Giuseppe Verdi's Aida in a concert performance alongside Jonas Kaufmann and Anja Harteros .

In 2013 he gave Don Carlo di Vargas in the premiere of La forza del destino at the Bavarian State Opera .

In 2015 he was nominated for the International Opera Award as best singer.

Discography (selection)

Web links

Award

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