Description

Cyrille Dubois discovered singing at the age of 7 at the Maîtrise de Caen (directed by Robert Weddle), as a sopranist. After scientific studies he entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in the classroom of Alain Buet (First Prize summa cum laude in 2010), then improved at the Atelier Lyrique of Paris National Opera. 2015 he is awarded « Opera Singer Discovery  of the year» at the 22nd French Victoires de la Musique.

 

Very quickly he is invited to perform Nathanaël/Les Contes d'Hoffmann (La Scala in Milan & Paris Opera) ; Azor/La Dispute by Benoît Mernier (Brussels La Monnaie) ; Ferrando/Cosi Fan Tutte (Opera Fuoco, Rouen & Paris Operas) ; Brighella/Ariadne auf Naxos (Paris Théâtre de l’Athénée, Toulon & Paris  Operas ; Almaviva/Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Paris Théâtre des Champs-Elysees/Sir Roger Norrington) ; Gérald/Lakmé (Saint-Etienne Opera) ;  Tybalt/Roméo et Juliette  (Massy Opera) ; Pâris/La Belle Hélène (Toulon Opera) ; Gonzalve/L'Heure Espagnole (Glyndebourne Opera Festival) ; Narciso/Il Turco in Italia (Metz Opera & Modena), Coelio/Les Caprices de Marianne by Sauguet on various French opera stages ; Marzio/Mitridate (Le Concert d’Astrée/Emmanuelle Haïm - Paris Théâtre des Champs Elysées, DVD) ; Belmonte/Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Lyon & Monte-Carlo Operas) ; Oronte/Alcina, Le Laboureur/Le Roi Arthus by Chausson, Lucien de Rubempré/Trompe La Mort by Luca Francesconi, Tavannes & 1st Priest/Les Huguenots & Iopas/Les Troyens (Paris National Opera) ;  Don Ramiro/La Cenerentola (Lyon  National Opera & Edinburgh International Festival) ; Horace/Le Domino Noir (Liège Royal Opera & Paris Opéra Comique) ; the title-part of Hippolyte et Aricie (Opernhaus Zürich) ; Ruodi/Guillaume Tell (Orange Chorégies Festival) etc.

 

Cyrille Dubois likes performing recitals with Tristan Raës, his partner from Duo Contraste. Winners of Lili and Nadia Boulanger Competition and triple winners of 2013 Lyon 9th Chamber Music International Competition (Duet voice-piano, Lied & Songs : First Prize and  Audience Prize)  they are invited to perform at the Hermitage Théâtre in Saint-Petersbourg, Palazetto Bru Zane in Venice, Claude Debussy Museum, Invalides Army Museum in Paris, Paris National Opera, as well as Wigmore Hall in London, Moscow in the Piano aux Jacobins series, Le  Louvre Paris & Lens  Museums etc. Together they recorded Clairères dans le ciel, a programme dedicated to musicians of the Great War (Hortus Editions 2014) & O Lieb ! an album dedicated to Liszt (Aparté , Autumn 2019).

Cyrille Dubois also collaborates with Anne Le Bozec, Jeff Cohen, Michel Dalberto and Nicolas Stavy.

In concert he performed under the direction of Thomas Engelbrock (Orchestre de Paris), as Colin/Le Devin du Village (Les Nouveaux Caractères, CD) ;  Mozart C-minor Mass (Insula Orchestra & Laurence Equilbey ), Berlioz Roméo et Juliette (Sinfonieorchester Basel/Ivor Bolton ), Castor et Pollux (Ensemble Pygmalion/Raphaël Pichon)  ; Les Horaces & Tarare by Salieri and the title-part of Pygmalion (Aparté CD recording) with Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset , Cyrille/Kassya by Delibes (Montpellier Occitanie & Radio-France Festival),  Berlioz concert (Vienna Symphonic Orchestra/Philippe Jordan - Vienna Musikverein), etc.

Among his projects : Tamino/Die Zauberflöte (Marseille Opera), Nadir/Les Pêcheurs de Perles (Wallonie Royal Opera), Fortunio (Opéra Comique) ; Gérald/Lakmé (Moscow State Philharmonic Society) ; Le Chevalier de la Force/Dialogues des Carmélites (Glyndebourne Opera Festival) etc.

Other recordings include : La Missa Sacra (Les Cris de Paris/Aparte), St-Phar/La Caravane du Caire by Guétry (Les Agrémens/Ricercar), Félicien David’s The Desert (Paris Chamber Orchestra/Naïve) & The Saphir (Le Cercle de l’Harmonie/Palazetto Bru Zane), Sacchini’s lyric tragedy Renaud (Les Talens Lyriques/Bru Zane) , Halévy's La Reine de Chypre (Bru Zane), Mercure/Persee by Lully (Le Concert Spirituel/Hervé Niquet - Alpha), Les Pêcheurs de Perles (Orchestre National de Lille/Pentation), Iopas/Les Troyens (Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg/Erato) ; Bruneau Songs (Jeff Cohen) to be released, etc.

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