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, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, 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, 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.
The French baritone gained reputation for his interpretation of the great Verdi roles such as Macbeth, Rigoletto, Simone 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.
The 2023/ 24 sees him in new productions of Rigoletto in Madrid and Tosca in Munich. He will also return to the Vienna State Opera (La Traviata, Tosca, Otello), the Paris Opera (La Traviata, Simon Boccanegra) as well as the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and the Royal Opera House in London. Upcoming concert engagements include Carmina Burana at the Théâtre des Champ-Elysées in Paris and Brahms’ Requiem at the Saint-Denis Festival.
