Nicolas Courjal Bass

Nicolas Courjal was born in France and studied under Jane Berbié. He made his debut at the Opéra Comique in Paris, Wiesbaden and the Wexford Festival and soon found himself performing at some of the world’s most venerable opera venues. He has appeared in L’heure espagnole with the Orchestre national de Lyon, Verdi’s Requiem with the Orchestre national de Lorraine, and Il barbiere di Seviglia (Basilio) in Bordeaux; Les pêcheurs de perles (Nourabad) in concert in Paris; Marouf (the Sultan) at the Opéra Comique; Un ballo in maschera (Samuel) and Guillaume Tell (Gessler) at the Chorégies d’Orange; Les Troyens (Narbal), Le Roi d’Ys (the title role), Les pêcheurs de perles, La Straniera (Il priore degli Spedalieri), Tristan et Isolde (King Marke) Don Carlo (Philippe II), Hérodiade (Phanuel), Simon Boccanegra (Fiesco), Méphistophélès (Faust), La Reine de Saba (Soliman), Eugene Onegin (Prince Gremin), and Luisa Miller (Count Walter) in Marseille; Sigurd (the Bard) in Geneva; Félicien David’s Herculanum with Palazetto Bru Zane and Die Zauberflöte (Sarastro) in Vichy; La Damnation de Faust (Méphistophélès) at the Berlioz Festival and the Colmar Festival; Rossini’s Moïse (Pharaon) in Monte Carlo; Guillaume Tell (Gessler), Carmen (Zuniga), and Enescu’s Œdipe (the High Priest) at the Royal Opera House in London; Zoroastre (Abramane) at the Beaune, Montpellier and Aix Festivals; the four diabolical characters in the Contes d’Hoffmann, the Old Hebrew in Samson et Dalila, and La Bohème (Coline) in Monaco; Robert le Diable (Bertram) at La Monnaie in Brussels, and Les Contes d’Hoffmann in Lausanne. Nicolas Courjal also performs in concert (Mozart’s Requiem, Verdi’s Requiem, L’Enfant et les sortilèges, and L’Enfance du Christ). He made his Paris Opera debut in 2018 in Gianni Schicchi and L’Heure espagnole.