baritone. A summa cum laude graduate from the Conservatoire National Sup\u00e9rieur in Paris, Matthieu L\u00e9croart has appeared in many opera and concert venues, both in France and abroad (London, Vienna, Berlin, Madrid, Delhi, Shanghai, Tokyo, Chicago, New York…), and in a wide repertoire that includes: lieder and art songs; as well as Messiah, Die Sch\u00f6pfung, the Ode to Joy, Elias, Carmina Burana, as well as masterworks by Bach, Mozart, Rossini, Brahms, Puccini, Faur\u00e9, Durufl\u00e9…; baroque music, with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Ren\u00e9 Jacobs, etc.; world premieres \u2013 Philippe Hersant’s lieder cycle In die Ferne, Thierry P\u00e9cou’s L’Amour coupable at the Op\u00e9ra de Rouen (as Figaro), Cyrano & Roxane by Stavros Xarhakos in Athens (as Cyrano de Bergerac), etc.; opera \u2013 the roles of Rigoletto, Germont (La Traviata), Orfeo (Monteverdi), Don Giovanni and Leporello, Figaro (Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Le Nozze di Figaro), Papageno and the Sprecher (Die Zauberfl\u00f6te), Falke (Die Fledermaus), the Director (Les Mamelles de Tir\u00e9sias), the Marquis de La Force and the Jailer (Dialogues des Carm\u00e9lites) – this latter role at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Champs-Elys\u00e9es, in the Olivier Py production conducted by J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Rohrer -, Valentin (Faust), Escamillo (Carmen), Athana\u00ebl (Tha\u00efs), Golaud (Pell\u00e9as & M\u00e9lisande), M\u00e9phistoph\u00e9l\u00e8s (La Damnation de Faust), etc., this latter most notably at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Ch\u00e2telet.
\nBesides, Matthieu L\u00e9croart has enjoyed reviving rare works, in many venues including the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Imp\u00e9rial de Compi\u00e8gne: Hal\u00e9vy’s Charles VI, Rossini’s Le Si\u00e8ge de Corinthe, Adam’s Le Tor\u00e9ador (title role), Louise Bertin’s and Victor Hugo’s La Esmeralda (Archdeacon Frollo), No\u00e9 by Hal\u00e9vy & Bizet, Messager’s Passionn\u00e9ment, Sauguet’s Les Caprices de Marianne, Falla’s El Retablo de Maese Pedro, Goyescas by Granados, Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis (title role), Hindemith’s Das lange Weihnachtsmahl, Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw, and many more ; in this respect, he has sung Lerner’s and Loewe’s My Fair Lady (Alfred Doolittle), Humperdinck’s H\u00e4nsel und Gretel (the Father), Barber’s Vanessa (the Doctor) and Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia (the Poet) at the Op\u00e9ra de Metz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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