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In 2012 he portrayed Nathanaël in ''les [[Contes d'Hoffmann]]'' at [[La Scala]]. The following year he made his début with the [[Théatre de la Monnaie]] in [[Brussels]] as Azor in ''La Dispute'', a contemporary opera by [[Benoît Mernier]].<ref name="cantatas"/> A performance as Gérald in ''[[Lakmé]]'' followed. In 2014 he sang Oronte in ''[[Alcina]]'', Pâris in ''[[La Belle Hélène]]'' and was Coelio in ''les Caprices de Marianne'' by [[Henri Sauguet]] and toured around France.
In 2012 he portrayed Nathanaël in ''les [[Contes d'Hoffmann]]'' at [[La Scala]]. The following year he made his début with the [[Théatre de la Monnaie]] in [[Brussels]] as Azor in ''La Dispute'', a contemporary opera by [[Benoît Mernier]].<ref name="cantatas"/> A performance as Gérald in ''[[Lakmé]]'' followed. In 2014 he sang Oronte in ''[[Alcina]]'', Pâris in ''[[La Belle Hélène]]'' and was Coelio in ''les Caprices de Marianne'' by [[Henri Sauguet]] and toured around France.
In 2015, he performed as Narciso in ''[[Il Turco in Italia]]'' and made his début at the [[Glyndebourne Festival Opera]] in [[Maurice Ravel]]'s ''[[L'heure espagnole]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=L'heure espagnole, 23 August 2015 |url=https://www.glyndebourne.com/archive_performances/lheure-espagnole-23-august-2015/ |website=The opera archive |access-date=27 February 2021}}</ref> The same year he appeared as Brighella in ''[[Ariadne auf Naxos]]'' and Worker in ''[[Le Roi Arthus]]''. In 2016 he performed as Marzio in ''[[Mitridate, re di Ponto]]'' and Belmonte in ''[[Die Entführung aus dem Serail]]''.<ref name="opéra">{{cite web |title=Cyrille Dubois, ténor |url=https://www.operadeparis.fr/en/artists/cyrille-dubois |website=Opéra de Paris |access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref>
In 2015, he performed as Narciso in ''[[Il Turco in Italia]]'' and made his début at the [[Glyndebourne Festival Opera]] in [[Maurice Ravel]]'s ''[[L'heure espagnole]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=L'heure espagnole, 23 August 2015 |url=https://www.glyndebourne.com/archive_performances/lheure-espagnole-23-august-2015/ |website=The opera archive |access-date=27 February 2021}}</ref> The same year he appeared as Brighella in ''[[Ariadne auf Naxos]]'' and Worker in ''[[Le Roi Arthus]]''. In 2016 he performed as Marzio in ''[[Mitridate, re di Ponto]]'' and Belmonte in ''[[Die Entführung aus dem Serail]]''.<ref name="opéra">{{cite web |title=Cyrille Dubois, ténor |url=https://www.operadeparis.fr/en/artists/cyrille-dubois |website=Opéra de Paris |access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref>

;Recent leading roles:
* 2017
** Lucien in ''Lucien Trompe-la-Mort'', a contemporary opera by [[Luca Francesconi]]
** Don Ramiro in ''[[la Cenerentola]]''.
* 2018
** Tavannes in ''[[Les Huguenots]]''
** Horace in ''[[Le domino noir]]''
** [[Tarare (opera)|Tarare]] in the eponymous opera by [[Salieri]]<ref name="ICMA">{{cite web |title=Winners 2020 |url=https://www.icma-info.com/2846-2/ |website=International Classical Music Awards |access-date=22 February 2021}}</ref>
** Gérard de Coucy in [[Fromental Halevy]]'s ''[[La Reine de Chypre]]''<ref>{{cite web |title=Nominations announced for International Classical Music Awards 2019 |url=https://www.askonasholt.com/nominations-announced-for-international-classical-music-awards-2019/ |website=Askonas Holt |access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref>
* 2019
** ''[[Fortunio (opera)|Fortunio]]'' by [[André Messager]]
** Hippolyte in ''[[Hippolyte et Aricie]]'' by [[Jean-Philippe Rameau]]
** Ruodi in ''[[Guillaume Tell (Grétry)|Guillaume Tell]]''<ref name="opéra"/>
* 2021
** Dubois performed as Tamino in ''[[The Magic Flute]]'' at l'[[Opéra Bastille]], [[Paris]], a special performance under Covid 19 restrictions.
** Dubois features ''L'Autre'' in ''Point d'Orgue'', World creation by [[Thierry Escaich]] with librettist and stage director [[Olivier Py]] and soloists [[Patricia Petibon]] and [[Jean-Sébastien Bou]].<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Emmanuel Dupuy |title=Création du deuxième opéra de Thierry Escaich au Théâtre des Champs-Elysées |journal=Diapason |date=9 March 2021 |url=https://www.diapasonmag.fr/critiques/creation-du-deuxieme-opera-de-thierry-escaich-au-theatre-des-champs-elysees-32415 |access-date=11 March 2021 |trans-title=Thierry Escaich's second opera World creation at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées}}</ref>


==Awards==
==Awards==

Latest revision as of 15:21, 9 February 2024

Cyrille Dubois
Background information
Born (1984-09-27) 27 September 1984 (age 39)
OriginFrance
Occupation(s)Classical tenor
Websitecyrille-dubois.fr

Cyrille Dubois (born 27 September 1984) is a French tenor performing as an opera and lieder singer.

Early life and education[edit]

Cyrille Dubois spent his childhood in Ouistreham in Normandy, France. As a child he demonstrated an early talent for singing and joined the Maîtrise de Caen[a] as a soprano where he read music and studied the organ.[1][2] At age 14 he was Miles in the Turn of the Screw at the Opéra de Lyon. While studying at the Rennes Superior School for Agronomy where he took his degree in fisheries science, he continued practising singing as a tenor at the Rennes Conservatory [fr].[1] In 2008 he was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris and in 2010 to the Paris Opera workshop that gave him the opportunity to sing and play major opera parts.[2]

Career[edit]

In 2010 Dubois created the Duo Contraste with pianist Tristan Raës. Together they have performed recitals in France at Opéra Bastille and other concert halls, such as in Venice, Italy, at Wigmore Hall, England,[3] and the Hermitage Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia.[2]

In 2012 he portrayed Nathanaël in les Contes d'Hoffmann at La Scala. The following year he made his début with the Théatre de la Monnaie in Brussels as Azor in La Dispute, a contemporary opera by Benoît Mernier.[2] A performance as Gérald in Lakmé followed. In 2014 he sang Oronte in Alcina, Pâris in La Belle Hélène and was Coelio in les Caprices de Marianne by Henri Sauguet and toured around France. In 2015, he performed as Narciso in Il Turco in Italia and made his début at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in Maurice Ravel's L'heure espagnole.[4] The same year he appeared as Brighella in Ariadne auf Naxos and Worker in Le Roi Arthus. In 2016 he performed as Marzio in Mitridate, re di Ponto and Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail.[5]

Awards[edit]

  • In 2010 the Duo Contraste won first prize of the Lili and Nadia Boulanger competition.
  • In 2013 the Duo Contraste was awarded a further three prizes at the Lyon Chamber Music Competition.
  • In 2015 Dubois won the Opera Singer-Best Newcomer prize at les Victoires de la musique classique[6]
  • In 2023 Cyrille Dubois and his pianist Tristan Raës were awarded the Gramophone Classical Music Awards for their performance in Fauré Complete Songs [7]

Discography[edit]

Chamber music[edit]

  • Les Clairières dans le ciel, Cyrille Dubois, ténor, Tristan Raës, piano. 2015Classica (magazine)
  • Portrait de Félicien David, Mélodies conducted by Hervé Niquet, 2017
  • LISZT : "O LIEB!", lieder. Cyrille Dubois, ténor / Tristan Raës, piano.2018. Diapason d'Or et choc classica
  • Mélodies de Lili et Nadia Boulanger, Cyrille Dubois, ténor/Tristan Raës, piano, 2020, choix de France Musique[8]
  • Canticles (Britten) : Cyrille Dubois (tenor) and Anne Le Bozec (piano) ; Wladimir Dubois (horn) ; Pauline Haas (harp) ; Marc Mauillon (baritone) ; Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian (countertenor), 2020
  • Alfred Bruneau, La nuit de mai with pianist Jeff Cohen , 2020

Opera[edit]

Dubois has appeared as leading role on opera recordings such as Saint-Phar in Grétry's La Caravane du Caire conducted by Guy Van Waas; Marzio in Mozart's Mitridate conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm,[9] Mercury in Lully, Persée 1770 with Hervé Niquet in 2017; title role of Pygmalion (Rameau) with Christophe Rousset, 2017;[10] Iopas in Les Troyens (Hector Berlioz), with John Nelson, 2017;[11] Curiace in les Horaces (Salieri) with Christophe Rousset, 2017; Nadir in Les Pêcheurs de Perles (Bizet) with Alexandre Bloch, 2018[b] ; Gérard in La Reine de Chypre (Fromental Halévy) with Hervé Niquet, 2018;[12] Colin in Le Devin du Village (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) with Sébastien d'Hérin, recorded at Versailles, 2018; title role in Fortunio (André Messager), 2019; title role in Tarare (Salieri) with Christophe Rousset, 2019; Loti in L'île du Rêve (Reynaldo Hahn) with Hervé Niquet, 2020; Dardanus (Jean-Philippe Rameau) with György Vashegyi, 2021; L'Autre in Point-d'Orgue, music by Thierry Escaich, libretto and staging by Olivier Py, 2021; Jason in Médée (Marc-Antoine Charpentier), with Hervé Niquet, 2023;

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a choir linked to a school with special arranged schedules
  2. ^ Dubois's aria La romance de Nadir is used on the soundtrack of the film the Father

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Le chef de choeur de Saint-Hilaire aux Victoires". Ouest-France (in French): 2. 15 December 2014. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d "Biographies of performers". Bach Cantatas Website. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  3. ^ "March 2015". Wigmore Hall. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  4. ^ "L'heure espagnole, 23 August 2015". The opera archive. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  5. ^ "Cyrille Dubois, ténor". Opéra de Paris. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  6. ^ "Palmarès des Victoires de la Musique Classique". France Musique (in French). 3 February 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  7. ^ "Gramophone's Song Award 2023". Gramophone Classical Music Awards. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
  8. ^ Emilie Munera et Rodolphe Bruneau-Boulmier (22 May 2020). "Le disque classique du jour". France Musique (in French). Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  9. ^ Bourdais, Sophie (11 February 2016). "Au Théâtre des Champs Elysées : "'Mithridate' est un chef-d'œuvre en soi"". Télérama. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
  10. ^ Imbaut, Patrice. "Pygmalion très convaincant par Christophe Rousset et Cyrille Dubois". Resmusica. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  11. ^ Le direct relax. "Héroïques, glorieux et sublimes Troyens". France Musique. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  12. ^ Bury, Laurent. "Dubois dont on fait les héros". Forum opera.com. Retrieved 26 February 2021.

External links[edit]

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