Nicolas Rigas is a French contemporary theatre director, [1] [2] actor, and baritone. [3] [4] [5]
Distinguished at the Talents Cannes [1] [6] in 2002, Rigas plays with Alexandra Lamy in Au suivant! [7] and Artus de Penguern's Gregoire Moulin vs. Humanity . [8]
In 2009, on the occasion of years of the Théâtre du petit monde, [9] he directed Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire amoureux with Delphine Depardieu. [10] Strengthened by this success and recognized for giving "modernity to the Classics", [11] [1] he set up Le Malade imaginaire at the Grandes Écuries du Château de Versailles [12] [13] [14] from where he will make all his new creations: The Barber of Seville (adaptation of Beaumarchais by Rossini) [15] [16] Les Précieuses ridicules [17] [11] and L'École des femmes by Molière associated with Offenbach's the Tales of Hoffmann . [18] [19] [1] [20]
For the reopening of the Algiers Opera House, he staged Don Giovanni [21] [22] which he also sang. He is Haly in L'italiana in Algeri at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées with Marie-Nicole Lemieux under the direction of Roger Norrington [23] of which the musicology website says:
Nicolas Rigas's excellent Haly - a very beautiful bass baritone voice well conducted - composes a character of a falsely obsessive and amusingly funny butler. [24]
He was "Les Quatre Diables" in The Tales of Hoffmann directed by Julie Depardieu [25] [26] [27] for Opéra en plein air produced by Tristan Duval , and sang the title role of contemporary opera in The Secret Agent by Michael Dellaira [28] at the Center for Contemporary Opera in New York and Szeged and the Opéra d'Avignon [29] [30] [31] [32] [33]
A multi-faceted lyrical artist, he sings in both operettas, operas bouffe and classical operas in Paris, London, Montreal, New York and Montreal. [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] and created with Martin Loizillon and female singer friends, a humorous clip on the circumflex that will make the "buzz" on the Internet and in newspapers, in response to the recommended spelling reform. [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44]
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