Biography

French Baritone Alexandre Duhamel is one of the finest singers of his generation, captivating audiences with his distinctive voice and versatility both on the opera stage and in concert halls.

The 2024/25 season, Alexandre Duhamel started with engagements as Thoas in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride in a production by Dmitri Tcherniakov at the Greek National Opera. He performed the role of Marquis de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. Additional highlights included Escamillo in Carmen at the Opéra Royal de Versailles, as well as symphonic concerts featuring works by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Maurice Ravel at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and together with the Orquestra Simfónica de Barcelona under the musical direction of Ludovic Morlot. At the Opéra de Marseille, he will be seen as Gunther in Ernest Reyer’s Sigurd. To conclude the season, he will perform in a gala concert with the Orchestre National de France, conducted by Bertrand de Billy, at the Maison de la Radio et de la Musique in Paris.

In the 2023/24 season, he made his debut at the Enescu Festival as Golaud in Pelléas et Mélisande and at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence as Thoas in Iphigénie en Tauride. He returned to the Opéra National de Toulouse as Zurga in Les pêcheurs de perles. After performing Jupiter in Orphée aux enfers in Hamburg, he made his debut as Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde in Lille.

Other engagements of the previous seasons included Marcello in La Bohème at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Lescaut in Manon at the Liceu in Barcelona, and the title roles in Don Giovanni and Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte at the Opéra Royal de Versailles. He sang as Golaud in Pelléas et Mélisande in Tokyo and Lille, Escamillo in Carmen in Tokyo, the title role in Guillaume Tell at the Opéra de Marseille, and Ramiro in L’Heure Espagnole in Stuttgart and Munich. Other highlights were his Don Giovanni and Don Alfonso at the Gran Teatre de Liceu in Barcelona, Panthée in Les Troyens at Teatro alla Scala, under the baton of Sir Antonio Pappano, Nevers in Les Huguenots in Genève, Le Grand-Prêtre in Alceste in Lyon and many more. He gave his house debut at the Opéra National de Paris in Gianni Schicchi and has regularly returned as a guest artist for productions such as L’enfant et les sortilèges, La fanciulla del West, Don Giovanni, Le roi Arthus, Platée, and Les Indes galantes.

In concert, he has performed at the BBC Proms with Pour les funérailles d’un Soldat, at the Auditorio Nacional de Madrid as Méphistophélès in Faust et Hélène, several times at the Festival Radio France, at the 40th Anniversary Concert of the Théâtre Antique d’Orange, and in many renowned concert halls. His US debut took place with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra under Ludovic Morlot in L’enfant et les sortilèges. His oratorio repertoire includes Fauré’s Requiem, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ, and Debussy’s L’enfant Prodigue.

At the beginning of his career, Alexandre Duhamel collaborated with distinguished conductors such as Michel Plasson, Sir Antonio Pappano, Marc Minkowski, Philippe Jordan, Carlo Rizzi, Alain Altinoglu, and Jakub Hrůša. He studied at the Paris National Conservatory and was a member of the Opéra de Paris’s Young Artist Program. For his outstanding achievements, he was awarded the “Prix Lyrique du Cercle Carpeaux” and the “Prix de l’Association pour le rayonnement de l’Opéra National de Paris” and was nominated for the Victoires de la Musique Classique Award in the category “Révélation lyrique de l’année.”