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Evgueniy Alexiev (born May 5, 1967, in Bulgaria) is a French operatic baritone. He has lived in Bordeaux since 1992.
In February 1993, Alexiev was invited to the Opera of Marseille, for a concert with the Association Del Monaco, and to the Opera of Avignon by Raymond Duffaut, for an event showcasing young singers. In the same year, he won the opera's first prize at the competition of the Alès and was a finalist in a competition by the Syndical Chamber of the Directors of French Opera Theatres. He was recognised by Antoine Bourseiller, who hired him in the production of Don Giovanni ; he also played Don Basilio with Jean-Claude Malgoire, in The Barber of Seville .
In 1995, he studied at the Centre of Formation for Opera of the National Opera of Paris, and was a finalist in the Luciano Pavarotti International Competition of Singing in Philadelphia. He was involved in various productions in France, including Eugene Onegin in the Opera of Lille, Didone by Francesco Cavalli in l’Opera Comique under the direction of Christophe Rousset, Pelléas and Mélisande in the Opera of Nantes, and L’appel de la mer , by Henri Rabaud, in the Opera of Nancy, under the direction of Mark Foster. He was also invited by the Opera of Prague for the role of Ping in Turandot , and played Figaro in The Barber of Seville at the Festival of Chiemgauer, in Germany.
Between 1998 and 2000, Alexiev toured in Germany, playing roles in Eugene Onegin and Don Giovanni , and portraying characters such as Marcello, Le Comte and Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro , and Peter in Hänsel and Gretel . During the Year of Verdi, he played roles such as Rigoletto, Iago, Don Carlo di Vargas, Ford, Amonasro, and Rodrigue in a series of concerts in Munich and Berlin. He sang Papageno in a production of Claude Santelli in Paris, Don Giovanni at the Opera of Nice, Mercurio in the L'incoronazione di Poppea in New York, production of the Opera of Amsterdam with Pierre Audi, Shaunard in the Lausanne Opera and in Luxembourg, Escamillo at the Grand Stade of France and in the Opera of Toulon, and Ziliante in Roland by Jean-Baptiste Lully, under direction by Christophe Rousset.
A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice-types. The term originates from the Greek βαρύτονος (barýtonos), meaning "heavy sounding". Composers typically write music for this voice in the range from the second F below middle C to the F above middle C (i.e. F2–F4) in choral music, and from the second G below middle C to the G above middle C (G2 to G4) in operatic music, but the range can extend at either end. Subtypes of baritone include the baryton-Martin baritone (light baritone), lyric baritone, Kavalierbariton, Verdi baritone, dramatic baritone, baryton-noble baritone, and the bass-baritone.
Jeffrey Black is an Australian baritone who has had an active international performance career since the early 1980s. A frequent performer with Opera Australia and the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, he has performed leading role with the Metropolitan Opera, Opéra Bastille, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Bavarian State Opera, and the Royal Opera, Covent Garden among other opera houses. He is particularly known for his portrayals of Guglielmo in Mozart's Così fan tutte, Count Almaviva in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, and Figaro in Rossini's The Barber of Seville.
Patricia Petibon is a French soprano.
Véronique Gens is a French operatic soprano. She has spent much of her career recording and performing Baroque music.
Christophe Rousset is a French harpsichordist and conductor, who specializes in the performance of Baroque music on period instruments. He is also a musicologist, particularly of opera and European music of the 17th and 18th centuries and is the founder of the French music ensemble Les Talens Lyriques.
Jean-Paul Fouchécourt is a French tenor, mostly as an opera singer. He was born on 30 August 1958 at Blanzy in the Burgundy region. He is best known for singing French Baroque music, especially the parts called in French haute-contre, written for a very high tenor voice with no falsetto singing.
Acis et Galatée is an opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully. Unlike most of his operas, which are designated tragédies en musique, Lully called this work a pastorale-héroïque, because it was on a pastoral theme and had only three acts compared to the usual five. Otherwise, there is little musically or dramatically to distinguish it from Lully's tragédies.
Sandrine Piau is a French soprano. She is particularly renowned in Baroque music although also excels in Romantic and modernist art songs. She has the versatility to perform works from Vivaldi, Handel, Mozart to Schumann, Debussy, and Poulenc. In addition to an active career in concerts and operas, she is prolific in studio recordings, primarily with Harmonia Mundi, Naïve, and Alpha since 2018.
Roland is an opera with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and a libretto by Philippe Quinault. It was first performed on January 8, 1685, at the Palace of Versailles by the Académie Royale de Musique and later, beginning on March 8, 1685, at the company's public theatre in Paris, the Théâtre du Palais-Royal. The story is derived from Ariosto's epic poem Orlando Furioso. The opera takes the form of a tragédie en musique with an allegorical prologue and five acts.
Bellérophon is an opera with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and a libretto by Thomas Corneille and Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle first performed by the Opéra at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris on 31 January 1679.
The French musical ensemble Les Talens Lyriques was created in 1991 in Paris, France, by the harpsichordist and orchestral conductor Christophe Rousset. This instrumental and vocal formation derives its name from the subtitle of Les fêtes d'Hébé (1739) an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau.
Agnès Mellon is a French soprano who specializes in baroque music.
Éric Vigner is a French stage director, actor and scenic designer. He is directing the CDDB-Théâtre de Lorient, Centre Dramatique National from 1996 to 2015.
Didon is a tragédie en musique or opera in a prologue and five acts by librettist, Louise-Geneviève Gillot de Saintonge, and composer Henri Desmarets. The opera was heavily influenced by Jean-Baptiste Lully's Armide and the music of both Marc-Antoine Charpentier and Henri Dumont.
Jean-François Gardeil is a French baritone and theatre director. He is also the founder and artistic director of the Chants de Garonne.
Jean-Luc Chaignaud is a French soloist baritone, singer of operas, lieder and oratorio.
Isabelle Druet is a French operatic coloratura mezzo-soprano who has performed internationally. She began her career as an actress and co-founded a theatre company, La Carotte. She has performed in concert and recorded with the ensemble Le Poème Harmonique. On stage, she has performed at opera houses in Paris, Nancy, Lyon and Düsseldorf, among others.
Bernard Deletré is a French operatic bass-baritone.
Jean-Louis Martinoty was a French writer and an opera director.. Renowned for his stagings of baroque operas in the eighties, he was also General Administrator of the Paris Opera (1986–1989).
Mario Cassi is an Italian baritone.
