Ludovic Tézier
September 10, 1968 - Marseille (France)
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Ludovic Tézier is acknowledged as one of the world’s leading baritones of our days. Following his studies in Marseille and Paris, he celebrated his first successes in Lucerne, Toulouse, and Lyon, from where his international career took off.
Since then, he has been established as guest at the world’s leading opera stages, such as the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Vienna State Opera, the Opéra National de Paris, La Scala Milan, the Liceu Barcelona, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Royal Opera House in London, the Bavarian State Opera Munich, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Staatsoper unter den Linden Berlin as well as at the Salzburg Easter and Summer Festivals, the Festival of Aix-en-Provence, the Chorégies d’Orange the Savonlinna Opera Festival and the Arena di Verona Opera Festival.
Ludovic Tézier regularly collaborates with the internationally most renowned conductors, such as Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Myung-Whun Chung, Antonio Pappano, Riccardo Muti, Philippe Jordan, Pinchas Steinberg, Gustavo Dudamel, and Riccardo Chailly, just to name a few.
The French baritone gained reputation for his interpretation of the great Verdi roles such as Macbeth, Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra, Renato (Un ballo in maschera), Ford (Falstaff), Germont (La Traviata) Posa (Don Carlo) and Don Carlo di Varga (La forza del destino), but his vast repertoire includes, among others, also the title roles of Hamlet and Eugene Onegin as well as Conte (Le Nozze di Figaro), Werther (baritone version), Yeletsky (Pique Dame), Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Scarpia (Tosca), Amfortas (Parsifal) Athanaël (Thaïs), and Barnaba (La Gioconda).
Major recordings include AIDA (CD), released in 2015 by Warner Classics and Carmina Burana (“Live from the Forbidden City”) released on CD and DVD by Deutsche Grammophon in early 2019. Ludovic Tézier has been an exclusive artist with Sony Classical for several years. His first solo album of Verdi arias, released in February 2021, was highly acclaimed by the press. Together with tenor Jonas Kaufmann he recorded the album Insieme – Opera Duets, which has also been released by Sony Classical in October 2022.
Ludovic Tézier is also a sought-after concert singer and performs with the world’s leading orchestras. He regular sings in recitals with a focus on French and German lieder.
The 2024/25 season’s focus is on works by Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner. He will for example take on the role of Don Carlo di Vargas in the new production of La Forza del Destino at the season opening at La Scala in Milan, make his debut as Wotan in Calixto Bieito’s new production of Das Rheingold at the Paris Opera, take on the signature role of Simon Boccanegra at the Berlin State Opera and return to the Vienna State Opera as Amfortas (Parsifal) and Wolfram (Tannhäuser). The season finishes with Macbeth at the Savonlinna Opera Festival and further engagements at various summer festivals. As a soloist or together with soprano or tenor partners the season also sees him in several concerts and galas, including in Madrid, Barcelona, Naples, Prague, Paris and Greece.
Accompanied by Julius Drake, he will enchant audiences in Milan in November 2024 with a lied recital.