François Rougier

Tenor

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François Rougier's excellent Don José, carried by the richness of his voice and his impeccable diction, in every register, from helplessness to valour.

Martine Mergeay - La Libre Belgique
Carmen - DeSingel 2024

After studying at Sciences-Po and at the conservatory in Grenoble, François Rougier was quickly noticed as a tenor to follow: laureate of the 22nd International Singing Competition of Clermont-Ferrand in 2011 and finalist of the 18th Symphonies d'Automne in Mâcon, he participates in 2013 at the first Académie de l'Opéra Comique. He has been a member of the New Favart troupe of the Opéra Comique from 2018 to 2021, where he is regularly invited.

In 2006, Mirella Giardelli offered him his first roles with Platée and Ferrando, in two shows adapted from the operas of Rameau and Mozart, with the Atelier des Musiciens du Louvre. In 2012, he discovers the work of the director Alexandra Lacroix in Haydn's Il Mondo della Luna (where he sings the role of Cecco) and then in Offenbach's La Chatte métamorphosée en femme (role of Guido) at the Musée d'Orsay.

Following this, he became involved with her company, a place of research and experimentation in the field of musical theater, and participated as an associate artist in a triptych of shows based on Bach's Passions (Et le coq chanta, D'autres le giflèrent, Puis il devint invisible), under the musical direction of Christophe Grapperon, as well as in the recital reading Voix intimes 14-18, in Voi[e.x.s], a project developed during 4 years in Porte de la Chapelle, Persées that compares the stories of Iranian and Afghan refugees and the Melodies persanes of Saint-Saëns, Sur un nuage, an immersive musical nap with Bach for 3-7 years old and their parents.

He is also Kornelis in Saint-Saëns’s La Princesse jaune et autres fantasmes at the Opera de Limoges, Don José in The Carmen Case of Alexandra Lacroix, adapted with Diana Soh’s musics and Geaogre Bizet at the TAP of Poitiers, at the theater of Luxembourg and at the Opera National de Bordeaux. He is also Sidi-Toupi in Belboul, from Alexandra Lacroix’s creation inspired by Jules Massenet and Farnaz Modarresifar at the Opera de Reims.
From 2014 to 2016, he participates in the CFPL tour of Sauguet's Les Caprices de Marianne (role of Coelio), on the stages of the Capitole de Toulouse, the Opéra national de Bordeaux, and the operas of Marseille, Limoges, Tours and Reims.

His vocal as well as scenic qualities make him a regular guest on many major opera stages : the Opéra national de Paris (Les Huguenots, La Traviata, Carmen), the Opéra comique de Paris (Lamé, Le Domino Noir, Madame Favart, Ciboulette, Cendrillon, Ali Baba, as well as the world Premiere of Hersant's Les Éclairs), the Opéra du Rhin (Simon Steen-Andersen’s Don Giovanni aux enfers), the Royal Opera of Wallonia-Liège (Le Domino Noir), the Grand Théâtre du Luxembourg (L’Inondation), the Opéra de Lausanne (Le Domino Noir), the Opéra de Lille (Nabucco), the Festival Radio France de Montpellier (Fervaal), the Berlioz Festival in La Côte Saint-André (La Prise de Troie), the operas of Nantes and Rennes (L'Inondation by Filidei and Pommerat), the Opéra royal de Versailles (La Périchole with the Musiciens du Louvre), the Historical Theater of Trondheim in Norway (Grétry's Raoul de Barbe-Bleue), the Opera d’Avignon (Boris Godounov), the Opéra de Rouen (L'Île de Tulipatan and Ali Baba), the Opéra de Limoges (Il Trovatore, Madame Favart, La Dame Blanche, La Princesse Jaune), the Opéra de Saint-Etienne (L'Île de Tulipatan and Le Marchand de Venise).

Last season, René Jacobs offered him the role of Don José during the European tour of Carmen.

In the concert or Oratorio repertoire (Bach's Passions, Saint-Saëns' Oratorio de Noël, Handel's Messiah, Beethoven's C Mass, Boulanger’s mermaid…), he has performed with ensembles and orchestras such as the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra, the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Les Siècles, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, the Ensemble baroque de Toulouse, the Orchestre de chambre de Genève, the Chapelle rhénane...

For his 2024/2025 season : Giannino (L'Uomo Femina, Galuppi) at the Opéra de Dijon, at the Théâtre de Caen and at the Opéra royal de Versailles, L'Aumônier (Dialogues des Carmélites) at the Opéra de Rouen, Carmen Case at the Opéra de Limoges, and concerts with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg and the Orchestre national Avignon-Provence.

François Rougier has been represented by RSB Artists since 2014.

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Remendado-Carmen-Opéra de Paris-2017

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