Christian Tréguier Bass

A student of Irène Joachim and Xavier Depraz at the National Conservatory of Paris, Christian Tréguier has been the lead artist in numerous creations, including L'Homme aux Loups by Georges Aperghis, Dangerous Liasons (Valmont) by Claude Prey, Battistelli’s Prova d'orchestra, Médée by Michèle Reverdy, and Le dernier jour de Socrate by Graciane Finzi.

He has performed the great roles of the baroque repertoire on stage and in concerts with conductors such as Jean-Claude Malgoire, William Christie and Philippe Herreweghe (Scarpia, Mephistopheles, Frère Laurent, Basilio, Arkel and Golaud). He sang the Marquis de La Force in Dialogues with the Carmelites (Scala in Milan with Riccardo Muti, Maestranza in Seville, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Strasbourg, Bonn, Antwerp), the Comte des Grieux and Brétigny in Manon (Monte-Carlo Opera, Paris Opera), Arkel in Pelléas et Mélisande (Opéra Comique and Scala de Milan with Georges Prêtre, Glyndebourne Festival, Seville, Antwerp), Golaud in Maastricht.

Christian Tréguier’s repertoire also includes Herode in Berlioz’s The Childhood of Christ at the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Commander (Don Giovanni) and Brother Laurent (Romeo and Juliet) in Saint-Étienne, le Bailli (Werther) in Bordeaux, Crespel (The Tales of Hoffmann) at the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Capitole de Toulouse, Priam (The Trojans) in Amsterdam.

At the Paris Opera, he sang Dr Grenvil (La Traviata), the Old Arab and the Old Sailor (Martinu’s Julietta), Brétigny (Manon), Johann (Werther). Over the past few years, he has performed Il Sagrestano (Tosca) at the Saint-Étienne Opera, Zuniga (Carmen) at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, the Doctor (La Traviata at the Opéra-Théâtre de l’Eurométropole in Metz, Dr Grenvil (La Traviata) at the Opera de Reims and the Hermite (Young Frankestein) at the Opéra-Théâtre de l’Eurométropole in Metz.