It is a end of a year bathed in French music that awaits baritone Thomas Dolié; from Ravel to Fauré, then Berlioz, we will have the pleasure of hearing him in two operas and a lyric poem, alternately in a concert version with orchestra, with piano, then - as has become more rare in recent times - in a staged version.
In Monte Carlo first of all, he once again dons the clothes of the mover Ramiro in Maurice Ravel's L'Heure espagnole -a little watch jewel by the famous French composer-, a role he has already sung at the Opéra de Paris and the Philharmonie de Paris, the Cologne Opera, the Barbican Center in London and the Grand Théâtre de Provence.
We will then hear him at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse in Gabriel Fauré's Pénélope, a lyric poem less well known to the general public, in which he will play Eurymaque under the musical direction and piano accompaniment of Anne Le Bozec.
Finally, at the Opéra national de Lyon, he will sing the role of Claudio in the comic opera Béatrice et Bénédict by Hector Berlioz, based on the work of William Shakespeare, alongside the French bass Frédéric Caton for eight performances in a show directed by Daniele Michieletto and under the musical direction of the conductor Daniele Rustioni.
In the second half of the season we will have the opportunity to see and hear Thomas Dolié in Ramiro again, this time with Les Siècles led by François-Xavier Roth in Tourcoing, The Count (Le Nozze di Figaro) with the Musiciens du Louvre by Marc Minkowski at the Opéra royal de Versailles, Ford (Falstaff) at the Opéra national de Bordeaux-Aquitaine, Dicéphile (Saint-Saëns's Phryné) with the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen, or Berlioz's Lélio ou le retour à la vie with the London Symphony Orchestra, Mozart's Requiem with the Concert de la Loge and Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Orchestre National de Lyon.
Crédit photo © Julien Benhamou
Auditorium Rainier III, Monte Carlo
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Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse
