Artists
Le Chant du Cygne
Thomas Dolié
Baritone
Awarded a « Victoire de la Musique Classique » in the « Most promising Artist » category in 2008, Thomas Dolié's career started with Peter Brook, on the French and then world tours of his adaptation of The magic flute.
Thomas Dolié's career has already led him to perform numerous roles like the Count, Figaro, Guglielmo, Papageno, Golaud, Escamillo, Marcello, Ramiro and Fritz, among others, on stages such as the Opéra de Paris, the Opéra de Zurich, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the Teatro Real Madrid, the Komische Oper in Berlin, the Opéra de Cologne, the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, the Opéra Comique, and the Operas of Bordeaux, Toulouse, Lyon, Strasbourg, Avignon and Versailles.
Giving as much importance to the embodiment of the text or characters as to the music, Thomas Dolié is regularly invited to sing the oratorio, Lieder or opera repertoire in concert version with orchestra, in particular with the CMBV and the Palazetto Bru-Zane, thus contributing to the rediscovery of the French Baroque and Romantic repertoire.
We heard him in L'Enfance du Christ with the Milan Scala Orchestra and the Gürzenich Orchester, Mahler's Lieder eines farhenden Gesellen with the Orchestre national Bordeaux-Aquitaine, Hahn's L'Île du Rêve with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, L'Heure Espagnole with the London Symphony Orchestra, Pelléas et Mélisande with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie of Brême, Werther with the Hungarian National Orchestra, Grisélidis with the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Montpellier, St John's Passion with the Accentus Choir and Insula Orchestra, Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Orchestre national de Lyon, St. Matthew Passion with Les Musiciens du Louvre, Fauré Requiem with Orchestre national de Bordeaux Aquitaine, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln or Insula Orchestra, Brahms Requiem with Orquestra simfònica de Barcelona i nacional de Catalunya.
He has also worked with a lot of baroque ensembles, led by conductors such as Raphaël Pichon, György Vashegyi, René Jacobs, Marc Minkowski, Leonardo García Alarcón, Emmanuelle Haïm, Vincent Dumestre, Hervé Niquet and Christophe Rousset, and has given piano recitals with Olivier Godin, Anne Le Bozec and Susan Manoff.
For the 2024/2025 season : Sophie Gail’s Serenade at the Opera de Rennes, Docteur Miracle at the Theatre du Châtelet, Lully’s Persée with the ensemble Le Concert Spirituel, Haendel’s Resurrezione with the Banquet Céleste, Fauré’s Requiem with Les Siècles, Massenet’s Melodies with the Orchestre of the Opéra de Rouen, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and then Mozart’s Requiem with the Orchestre d’Auvergne, or Rinaldo at the Saint-Céré Festival.
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.