Artists
Le Chant du Cygne
Thomas Dolié
Baritone
Awarded a "Victoire de la Musique Classique" in the “Révélation artiste lyrique” category in 2008, Thomas Dolié’s career first took off alongside Peter Brook, during the French and then international tour of his adaptation of La Flûte enchantée.
He went on to perform roles such as Le Comte, Figaro, Guglielmo, Golaud, Escamillo, Marcello, Ramiro, and Fritz, among others, on stages including the Opéra de Paris, Opéra de Zurich, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Teatro Real Madrid, Komische Oper Berlin, Oper Köln, Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Opéra Comique, and the opera houses of Bordeaux, Toulouse, Lyon, Strasbourg, Avignon, and Versailles.
Placing equal importance on the embodiment of text and character as on music, Thomas Dolié is regularly invited to perform oratorio, Lied, and concert opera repertoire with orchestra, notably with the CMBV and Palazzetto Bru Zane, contributing to the rediscovery of French baroque and romantic repertoire.
He has been heard in L’Enfance du Christ with the Orchestra of La Scala in Milan and the Gürzenich Orchester, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen by Mahler with the Orchestre National Bordeaux-Aquitaine, L’Île du Rêve by Hahn with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, L’Heure Espagnole with the London Symphony Orchestra, Pelléas et Mélisande with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Werther with the Hungarian National Orchestra, Grisélidis with the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Montpellier, as well as La Passion selon Saint-Jean with Accentus and Insula Orchestra, Beethoven’s 9ème Symphonie with the Orchestre National de Lyon, La Passion selon Saint-Matthieu with Les Musiciens du Louvre, Fauré’s Requiem with the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln and Insula Orchestra, and Brahms’ Requiem with the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya.
He has also collaborated with numerous baroque ensembles under the direction of conductors such as Raphaël Pichon, György Vashegyi, René Jacobs, Marc Minkowski, Leonardo García Alarcón, Emmanuelle Haïm, Vincent Dumestre, Hervé Niquet, and Christophe Rousset, and gives recitals with pianists including Olivier Godin, Anne Le Bozec, and Susan Manoff.
Highlights for the 2025–2026 season include L’Horloge et le Chat / L’Enfant et les sortilèges at the Oper Frankfurt, Papageno (Die Zauberflöte) at the Opéra de Bordeaux, Brander (La Damnation de Faust) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Hérode and Le Père de famille (L’Enfance du Christ) in Budapest, Pollux (Castor et Pollux) with Cappella Mediterranea, and Beethoven’s 9ème Symphonie with the Orchestre National Avignon Provence.
Thomas Dolié has been represented by RSB Artists since 2009.
Olivier Godin
Born in Montreal, Olivier Godin is pursuing a brilliant career as a pianist and chamber musician in Canada and abroad. He has been invited to perform at numerous international festivals, including the Académie Francis Poulenc in Tours, the Festival international Albert-Roussel in France, the Palazzetto Bru Zane Festival in Venice, and on France-Musique and Espace Musique. He has also appeared in Canada at the Orford, Lanaudière, Sainte-Pétronille, Lachine, Classica and Parry Sound festivals. He has also performed with numerous opera artists and musicians in New York, Paris, Venice, Bonn and at London's Wigmore Hall.
Olivier Godin has made some twenty recordings, including the complete mélodies of Poulenc, Fauré (Atma classique), Dutilleux (Passavant Music), Duparc (Disques XXI-21), the complete works for two pianos by Rachmaninov (Société métropolitaine du disque) and several discs devoted to the works of little-known French composers such as Théodore Dubois and Émile Pessard (Disques XXI-21). Several of his recordings have been nominated for or received an Opus Prize from the Conseil québécois de la musique. His recording of Théodore Dubois's 'Musique sur l'eau et autres mélodies' with baritone Marc Boucher received five Diapasons from the French magazine Diapason, and his complete collection of Dutilleux's mélodies (Passavant Music) was awarded the Orphée d'Or for best recording initiative in France (2015).
He has appeared on record and in recital with such renowned opera artists as sopranos Aline Kutan, Karina Gauvin, Pascale Beaudin, Hélène Guilmette, Julie Fuchs and Kimy McLaren, and mezzo-sopranos Julie Boulianne, Michèle Losier and Nora Sourouzian, contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux, tenors Pascal Charbonneau, Antonio Figueroa and Yeghishe Manucharyan, and baritones François Le Roux, Wolfgang Holzmair, Russell Braun, Marc Boucher, Alexandre Sylvestre, Hugo Laporte, Étienne Dupuis, Gordon Bintner and Pierre-Étienne Bergeron. As a coach, he has worked with many conductors, including Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Jean-Marie Zeitouni, Raffi Armenian, Agnès Grossmann, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Franz-Paul Decker and Charles Dutoit. He is regularly invited to sit on competition juries.
In concert, Olivier Godin gave the Canadian premiere of previously unpublished works by Claude Debussy and Francis Poulenc. He regularly plays works by Quebec composers such as Rachel Laurin, Jacques Hétu, Raymond Daveluy and Raoul Sosa. A great fan of music for four hands and two pianos, he performs regularly with pianists Myriam Farid, Suzanne Blondin and François Zeitouni. A versatile musician, he has also performed in Germany with the actress Isabel Karajan and at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris with the singer Diane Dufresne and musicians from the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Paris.
As an organist, he can be heard on the podium of the Marie-Reine-du-Monde Cathedral Basilica in Montreal, where he assists the titular organist, Hélène Dugal. He has given a number of recitals as an organist in Quebec and France.
Appointed professor at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal at the age of 25, he is currently director of the institution's opera workshop. He also works with young singers at McGill University and occasionally with the Atelier lyrique de l'opéra de Montréal. He is responsible for the vocal accompaniment programme for pianists at the Académie internationale de musique et de danse du Domaine Forget (Québec). Previously, he taught at the Orford Arts Centre Summer Academy for fourteen years.
Olivier Godin graduated with great distinction from the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal in performance and chamber music, in the class of the renowned Raoul Sosa, and worked on the organ with Jean Le Buis.

