Graduated in Physics at Lille S University, Cyril Auvity Completes His Musical Studies

Cyril Auvity

Tenor

Graduated in Physics at Lille’s University, Cyril Auvity completes his musical studies at the conservatory in Lille in 1999, and won the International singing contest in Clermont Ferrand the same year.

Chosen by William Christie, he started his career at a very young age, performing Telemaco in Monteverdi’s Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria in Aix en Provenne Festival and performed the role throughout Europe and the USA.

He received numerous invitations to international festivals and opera houses: Persée by Lully with Christophe Rousset; Cavalli’s Gli Strali d’Amore under the direction of Gabriel Garrido; Purcell’s The Fairy Queen with Christophe Rousset in a spanish tour; Lully’s Persée and Charpentier’s Médée in Toronto; Purcell’s Dido and Eneas at Nancy Opera House and at the Aldeburgh Festival; the title role in Charpentier’s Actéon with Emmanuelle Haïm.

His long lasting collaboration with William Christie continued with new productions like Les Arts Florissants by Charpentier and David & Jonatas (title role).

He also debuted the title role in Rameau’s Pygmalion in a co-production between Nancy Opera House and Théâtre du Châtelet under the baton of Hervé Niquet as well as in a new production of Destouches’s Callirhoé in Montpellier.

He took part in a big tour with Gounod’s Le Medecin malgré lui and debuted in Don Giovanni (Don Ottavio) with Emmanuel Krivine; he performed the same role in a stage production in Montpellier where the following year he sang Tamino in The Magic Flute. In Lille’s Opera he sang Basilio in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with Emanuelle Haïm and Le Concert d’Astrée.

Cyril Auvity has recorded for several major labels like Erato, Naïve, EMI/Virgin, Zig-Zag Territoires etc. among them we cite the recent recording of the title role in Lully’s Bellérophon with Christophe Rousset.

Some of his recent projects have been: Handel’s Partenope in several theaters in Italy, with Ottavio Dantone; Telemaco in Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Madrid Teatro Real with William Christie and Pierluigi Pizzi; Lully’s Thésée in Paris and in Lille with Emmanuelle Haïm; Lully’s Amadis (title-role) in Avignon and Massy; King Arthur under the baton of Joël Suhubiette; he is Pan in Cavalli’s La Calisto at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées with Christophe Rousset and Morphée in Lully’s Atys under the baton of William Christie, staged by Jean-François Villégier; a new production of Cavalli’s Egisto at the Opéra Comique with Vincent Dumestre and staged by Benjamin Lazar; Pastore in the Orfeo production in Theater an der Wien with Ivor Bolton; Rameau’s Indes Galantes in Toulouse Capitole conducted by Christophe Rousset and Tespis & Mercure in a production of Platée staged by Calixto Bieito in Stuttgart Staatsoper etc.

Forthcoming engagements include: Tespis & Mercure in Platée staged by François Raffinot under the baton of Jean-Claude Malgoire and with William Christie and Robert Carsen in Theater an der Wien; Damon in a concert version of Acis and Galatea with Leonordo Garcia Alarcon in Amsterdam Concertgebouw; Lully’s Amadis (title-role) with Christophe Rousset; Monostatos in Die Zauberflöte in Bordeaux opera etc.

Date Last Edited March 2013