LUDOVIC TÉZIER is one of the leading baritones of our time, admired by audiences and critics alike for his noble timbre, impeccable technique, refined musical intelligence and commanding dramatic presence on the world’s foremost opera stages.
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 a 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.
Ludovic Tézier regularly collaborates with the most internationally renowned conductors, such as Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Myung-Whun Chung, Antonio Pappano, Riccardo Muti, Philippe Jordan, Gustavo Dudamel, and Riccardo Chailly, just to name a few. The French baritone gained a 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.
Ludovic Tézier is also a sought-after concert singer and performs with the world’s leading orchestras. He regularly sings in recitals with a focus on French and German lieder.
Season 2025-26 will see him returning in Teatro San Carlo with Un Ballo in Maschera and Nabucco, then he’ll sing Un Ballo in Maschera at the Opéra de Paris and Staatsoper Berlin, Simon Boccanegra at Wiener Staatsoper, where he’ll sing also Tannhäuser, Tosca, Les Pêcheurs des Perles and Otello, and Tosca at the Bayerische Staatsoper.
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