Rodolphe Briand Tenor

Season 24/25 Artist

Rodolphe Briand is equally at home in theater, musical comedy and opera. He performs on the great international opera stages: Teatro Real de Madrid, La Scala de Milan, Opéra national de Paris, La Fenice de Venise, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Opéra de Monte Carlo, Opéra national d'Amsterdam, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Opéra national du Rhin, Opéra de Marseille... Among the roles he has performed are Guillot de Morfontaine (Manon), les Quatre Valets (Les Contes d'Hoffmann), Le Remendado (Carmen), Bardolfo (Falstaff), Schmidt (Werther), Spoletta (Tosca), Mime (L'Or du Rhin)... Operetta is also a favorite field for this lover of words and notes, with the roles of Ménélas (La Belle Hélène), Bilou (Le Chanteur de Mexico), John Styx (Orphée aux Enfers), Bababeck (Barkouf).

He performs under conductors such as Ivan Fischer, Philippe Jordan, Daniel Oren, Pinchas Steinberg and Susanna Mälkki, in productions by directors including Calixto Bieito, Robert Carsen, Jérôme Deschamps, Jean-Louis Grinda, Benoît Jacquot, Olivier Py, Laurent Pelly and Mariame Clément. Recent and future projects include Werther at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Orphée aux Enfers at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse and La Périchole in Liège.

At the Opéra national de Paris: Les Noces de Figaro (Don Curzio), 2003; Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Spalanzani), 2010, 2016, 2020; La Force du destin (Maître Trabuco), 2011, 2019; La Fille du Far-West (Joe), 2014; La Flûte enchantée (Monostatos), 2015 ; Werther (Schmidt), 2016 ; Trompe-la-mort (Corentin), 2017 ; Wozzeck (Der Narr), 2017 ; Falstaff (Bardolfo), 2017 ; Benvenuto Cellini (Pompeo), 2018 ; Tosca (Spoletta), 2019 ; Madame Butterfly (Goro), 2019 ; Manon (Guillot de Morfontaine), 2020, 2022