French tenor Jean-François Novelli, laureate of the Concours Général, holds a degree in musicology from the Sorbonne, a Premier Prix in recorder, and is a graduate of the CNSMD de Paris in voice. A young talent recognized by ADAMI, he naturally turned—thanks to his first instrument—towards early music, which he has practiced and continues to explore with great passion. This is reflected in some thirty recordings and DVDs alongside today’s leading conductors in early music. Notable among them: Silentium, a recital album centered on the voix de taille recorded with Fabien Armengaud, and Tirannique Empire, a recital of cantatas by Jean-Baptiste Stuck with the ensemble Les Lunaisiens “première époque.”

His recent opera engagements include the roles of Remendado (Carmen) and the Chaplain (Dialogues des Carmélites) at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Torquemada (L’Heure espagnole) on an Italian tour (Operas of Brescia, Como, Cremona, and Pavia), the Herald (Dante by Godard) at the Opéra de Saint-Étienne, Jean-Paul and Monsieur Victor (Ô Mon bel Inconnu by Reynaldo Hahn) at the Théâtre de l’Athénée, and Telemaco and Pisandro (Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria), a project that has toured the world for ten years: Europe (Opéra Massimo in Palermo, Théâtre Royal de Versailles, Spain), Asia (Korea, Hong Kong), United States (New York).

His love of the stage led him to study clowning with Françoise Simon and Raphaël Almosni, and theatre with Olivier Broche and Emeline Bayard. He joyfully applies this training in his own projects developed within the company Compagnie de l’Autre Voix, which he founded:

Croustilleux la Fontaine, a theatrical recital of songs based on Jean de La Fontaine’s licentious tales, set to music by Antoine Sahler and staged by Juliette, still touring and performed over 80 times. An album of songs from the show was released in 2022.

Ma vie de ténor (est un roman qui m’intéresse beaucoup), based on a text by Hector Berlioz about the singer’s ego, staged by Olivier Broche, performed at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Michel as part of the Avignon Off Festival in July 2023.

He also creates “pocket-sized” formats blending poetry and music: Divine bouteille, a recital about wine—a theme deeply present in baroque music—with lute, and La Boîte à Joujoux, a reimagined fantasy with piano based on the tale by Hellé and the eponymous work by Claude Debussy.

He recently released a recital album of French mélodies, Vous souvenez-vous ?, a tribute to the early rediscoverers of early music at the dawn of the 20th century and beyond, with Maude Gratton on piano.

Notable engagements for the 2025–2026 season include Le Bourgeois gentilhomme at the Opéra Royal de Versailles, and the role of Raphaël (La Route Fleurie by Lopez) at the Théâtre de l’Odéon in Marseille.

He has been represented by RSB Artists agency since 2013.

Antoine Sahler was born in Montbéliard in 1970. After studying classical piano, he turned his attention to jazz and then French songs. He has released two albums with Harmonia Mundi / Le Chant du Monde (Je suis parti in 2002 and Nos futurs in 2005). His second album gave him the opportunity to meet Juliette, who invited him to support her at the Olympia in 2006.

As a composer, he has worked with actress Sophie Forte, with whom he released two albums of children's songs, Maman dit qu'il ne faut pas, in 2007, and J'suis vert, in 2009. He also accompanied her on stage, notably at the 2008 Francofolies festival at La Coursive. His collaboration with Sophie Forte led him to the theatre, where he wrote the music for Sur le fil. Other contributions to theatre followed: Avec deux ailes with Véronique Jeannot and, more recently, Cochons d'Inde by Sébastien Thiéry with Patrick Chesnais.

As a pianist, he has worked with artists such as Armelle Dumoulin and Françoise Le Golvan.

In recent years, he has worked regularly with François Morel, notably in the shows "Le soir, des lions...", in which he co-wrote the songs with François Morel, and "La fin du monde est pour dimanche".

He also released a children's book and record in 2013: La tête de l'emploi.

Antoine Sahler also writes songs for Lucrèce Sassella, whose album, 22 ans, was released in 2015.

After spending her teenage years in a religious institution, then trying her hand at literature and musicology, she began performing in Toulouse bars and restaurants as a pianist, singing Jacques Brel and Édith Piaf.

In 1985, and again in 1986, she took part in the Découvertes du Printemps de Bourges festival, representing young talent. She was awarded the Grand Prix de la Chanson Française in Saarbrücken.

In 1991, she won the jury and audience prizes at the Tremplin de la chanson des Hauts-de-Seine, which enabled her to produce her first album, ¿Que tal? herself.

She was nominated for a Victoire de la Musique award in 1994, and won the prize for Best Newcomer of the Year at the same awards in 1997. Following her fifth album, Assassins sans couteaux (1998), she performed at the Olympia for the first time in 1999 for six days, again for two days in 2005, then for three days in 2008.

She has eight albums to her name, two Charles-Cros awards, a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres medal and a Chevalier de l'Ordre du Mérite medal.
Between 2004 and 2007, she hosted a radio programme on France Musique, Juliette ou la Clef des sons. Every Saturday, she presented an eclectic and subjective selection of music.

She took part as an actress in Canal+'s "La Collection 2009", playing the main character in the short film Le Rescapé de l'Hippocampe by Julien Lecat.

She directed Le soir des Lions by François Morel, and most recently Lady Raymonde, Denis d'Arcangelo's latest show.

Nicolas Royez was taught piano by Roger Muraro, Hortense Cartier-Bresson, Billy Eidi and Eric Le Sage. He learned vocal accompaniment from Françoise Tillard, Christian Ivaldi and Emmanuel Olivier.

Nicolas Royez holds a Master's degree in piano and a state diploma, and is the 2015 HSBC laureate of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence.

He is a piano teacher at the CRD in Gennevilliers, musical director of the Musique Au Bois chamber music festival in the Somme, vocal conductor for the company Les Frivolités Parisiennes and partner of singers Beate Mordal, Laurent Deleuil and Guillaume Paire.

Jean-Yves Aizic studied piano with Denyse Rivière and continued his musical studies at the CNSM in Paris, where he won first prizes in the writing, vocal accompaniment and voice conducting classes. He has worked as a conductor and pianist for opera houses such as the Grand théâtre de Tours, the Théâtre Graslin in Nantes, the Opéras de Rennes, Angers and Rouen, and the Opéra Comique in Paris.

Keen on contemporary musical creation, he takes part in productions by the 2e2m and TM+ ensembles. He is also artistic director of the Maguelone label and specialises in the restoration of operatic heritage for the Boosey & Hawkes, Durand-Salabert- Eschig and Fondazione Pergolesi-Spontini music publishing houses. He has reconstructed the original two-piano version of Maurice Yvain's "Yes! or "La Grippe Espagnole" on Sacha Guitry's text.

His latest projects have led him more towards writing, with the composition of a 'Gulliver-opera', in collaboration with François Bou and Éric Herbette, and the adaptation of 'Mésaventures Lyriques', with Lionel Peintre, based on Mozart and Cimarosa. As a member of Les Octambules, he wrote a 'Fantaisie sur la Habanera' from Carmen, along with other opera transcriptions for this eight-handed piano ensemble.