Julien Dran

Grandson and son of opera singers, Julien Dran began his musical training at an early age. He studied piano and horn, then voice at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux with Malcolm Walker, Pierre Catala and Lionel Sarrazin, before intergrating the CNIPAL in Marseille for the 2007/2008 season, where he made his stage debut.

He is a prizewinner in several competitions, including the Concours international de chant de Clermont-Ferrand in 2009 and the Julian Gayarre Singing Competition in Pamplona in 2011. He was also honored at the Paris Opera Awards in 2012.

He then went on to perform on numerous french and european stages: Ferrando (Cosi fan tutte) at Clermont Auvergne Opéra and Opéra de Massy, Fenton (Falstaff) at Opéra de Metz, Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) at Opéra de Corte, Il Conte Almaviva (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) at Opéra National de Bordeaux, Edmondo (Manon Lescaut), Ruodi (Guillaume Tell), Bénédict (Béatrice et Bénédict) and Antinoüs (Pénélope) at La Monnaie, the title role in Fra Diavolo at Opéra de Limoges, Matteo Borsa (Rigoletto) at Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Lindoro (L'Italiana in Algeri), Nadir (Les Pêcheurs de perles), Arturo (Lucia di Lammermoor) and Kudrias (Katia Kabanova) at Opéra d'Avignon, Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor) at Clermont Auvergne Opéra and Opéra de Massy, Gastone (La Traviata), Matteo Borsa (Rigoletto) and Le Comte de Lerme (Don Carlos) at Opéra de Paris, Alfred (La Chauve-souris) and Tebaldo (Capuleti e Montecchi) at Opéra de Marseille, Alfredo (La Traviata) with Opéra Éclaté, Jeune Horace (Les Horaces de Salieri) at Versailles and Theater an der Wien with Les Siècles, Gérald (Lakmé) at Opéra de Tours, Nadir (Les Pêcheurs de perles) in Limoges and Reims. He also created the role of Tiberius in Dominique Gesseney-Rappo's Carlotta ou la Vaticane at the Opéra de Fribourg.

More recently, he has appeared in La Belle Hélène (Pâris) and Orphée aux enfers (Aristée/Pluton) at Opéra de Lausanne, La Fille du régiment (Tonio) at Folies d'Ô, Opéra d'Avignon and Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Le Soulier de Satin (Le vice-roi de Naples, Saint-Boniface, Don Ramire) at Opéra National de Paris, Mireille (Vincent) at Opéra de Metz, L'Elisir d'amore (Nemorino) and Lucie de Lammermoor (Edgar) at Opéra de Québec, La Traviata (Alfredo) at Capitole de Toulouse, Faust (title role) and La Dame blanche (Georges Brown) at the Opéra de Limoges, Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Belmonte) and La Traviata (Alfredo) at Opéra de Marseille.

Recent and future projects include La Chauve-souris (Alfred) at Opéra de Lille, Guillaume Tell (Arnold) at Opéra de Lausanne, Faust (title role) at Opéra de Lille and Opéra Comique, Lucia di Lammermoor (Edgardo) at Capitole de Toulouse, and concerts with the hr-Sinfonieorchester and Münchner Philharmoniker.

April 2024