Paul Gay Bass baritone

Season 23/24 Artist

Paul Gay performs on the major international opera stages, including Munich's Bayerische Staatsoper, the Glyndebourne Festival, Opéra national de Paris, La Monnaie in Brussels, Amsterdam's Opéra national and Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu. He has collaborated with conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, Kent Nagano, Michel Plasson, Philippe Jordan and Semyon Bychkov, as well as with directors such as Willy Decker, Krystof Warlikowsky, Robert Carsen, Luc Bondy and Peter Stein. His repertoire includes the title role in Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise, Golaud (Pelléas et Mélisande), Méphistophélès (Faust), Don Diègue (Le Cid), King Ignace (Yvonne, princesse de Bourgogne).

Paul Gay has recently performed the roles of Philippe II (Don Carlo), Méphistophélès (La Damnation de Faust) with the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Klingsor (Parsifal) in Frankfurt, Escamillo (Carmen) in Toronto, Golaud at La Monnaie in Brussels, Don Iñigo (L'Heure espagnole) at Glyndebourne and Matsumoto, the Athlete (Lulu) at Madrid's Teatro Real, Don Pedro (Béatrice et Bénédict) at the Bordeaux Berlioz Festival, Sparafucile (Rigoletto) in Rouen, the Marquis la Force (Dialogues des carmélites) at the Glyndebourne Festival.

At the Opéra national de Paris: Juliette ou la clé des songes (l'Homme au casque / le Bagnard / le Marchand de souvenirs), 2006; Salomé (Deuxième Nazaréen), 2006; L'Affaire Makropoulos (Maître Kolenaty), 2007; Don Carlo (a monk), 2008; Fidelio (Don Fernando), 2008; La Petite Renarde rusée (Harasta), 2008, 2010; Yvonne, princesse de Bourgogne (le Roi Ignace), 2009; Billy Budd (Mr Flint), 2010 ; Faust (Mephisopheles), 2011; Manon (Count des Grieux), 2012; Rigoletto (Count of Monterone), 2012; Giulio Cesare (Achilla), 2013; Les Capulet et les Montaigu (Capellio), 2014 ; Le Cid (Don Diego), 2015 ; Pelléas et Mélisande (Golaud), 2015 ; Werther (the Beadle), 2016 ; Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Crespel / Luther), 2016 ; Les Huguenots (the Count of Saint-Bris), 2018 ; Otello (Lodovico), 2019