Franck Leguérinel Baritone

Franck Leguérinel is performing on the leading French stages in the Mozart, Belcanto and French Opera repertoire. A talented actor, he has mainly developed the Opera-comique and Italian Opera-Buffa repertoires.

His many roles comprise Abbé Bridaine (Les Mousquetaires au Couvent), the Vice-King (La Périchole), Pietro (Les Brigands), the Baron (La Vie parisienne), Fritelli (Le Roi malgré lui), the Vizir (Mârouf, savetier du Caire), Don Magnifico (La Cenerentola), Bartolo (The Barber of Seville), Don Geronio (Il Turco in Italia), the title-role in Falstaff, Dulcamara (L’elisir d’amore).

Recently, he has performed the roles of Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte) in Tours, Jupiter (Orphée aux Enfers) in Nancy and Angers Nantes Opéra, the King of Bavaria (Fantasio) at Opéra Comique, the Abbé Bridaine in Avignon, the Vizir in Bordeaux and at the Opéra Comique, Agamemnon (La Belle Hélène) in Nancy, Marquis de Corcy (Le Postillon de Lonjumeau), Major Cotignac (Madame Favart), Maître André (Fortunio) at Opéra Comique and in Nancy, Don Magnifico in Massy, the Baron de Gondremarck in Rouen, Tours and at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Bailli (Werther) in Lausanne and King V’lan (Voyage dans la Lune) at the Opéra Comique.

At the Paris Opera: Madama Butterfly (Prince Yamadori), 1993 ; Carmen (Dancaïre), 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 ; La Bohème (Schaunard), 1995, 1996 ; Rigoletto (Marullo), 1996 ; Faust (Wagner), 1996 ; Billy Budd (the Novice's Friend), 1996, 1998 ; Manon (Lescaut), 1997 ; La Traviata (the Marquis d’Obigny), 1997, 1998, 2000 ; L’Enfant et les sortilèges (the Clock, the Cat), 1998, 2001 ; Platée (Momus), 1999, 2002, 2006 ; The Tales of Hoffmann (Hermann), 2000 ; The Magic Flute (Papageno), 2002 ; Giulio Cesare (Achilla), 2002 ; Billy Budd (Bosun), 2010 ; The Merry Widow (Baron Mirko Zeta), 2017 ; Le Nozze di Figaro (Antonio), 2022