After being an outstanding solo singer in his early boyhood among the Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois, Loïc Félix decided to become an opera singer and joined the CNSM of Paris where he followed the classes of Christiane Eda-Pierre and Christiane Patard. He also attended the prestigious Master Classes of Michel Sénéchal, Régine Crespin and Renata Scotto.
As soon as he left the Conservatory, with his rich voice and his theatrical talents, he was invited by a large number of European theatres, becoming renowned in a varied repertoire. From Mozart with Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Pedrillo), Die Zauberflöte (Monostatos), Le Nozze di Figaro (Don Basilio), to Britten with The Little Sweep and Albert Herring (title role) and also the creation of Le Nègre des Lumières by the Chevalier de Saint-George. He also sang in Benvenuto Cellini, Carmen, Orphée aux Enfers, Roméo et Juliette, Falstaff, Salomé, Les Mamelles de Tirésias, Doktor Faust and Turandot by Busoni.
Tenor with a liking for comedy, he feels particularly at ease in the operetta repertoire. He has also performed in La Vie parisienne, Les Brigands, La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein, La Périchole, Monsieur Choufleuri, La Veuve joyeuse, Die Fledermaus…
He consistently appears at Théâtre du Châtelet and Opéra Comique in Paris, Capitole in Toulouse, Opéra National du Rhin, Opéras in Lyons, Avignon, Montpellier, Marseilles, Monte-Carlo, Nice, Bordeaux, Lille, Nancy… In Europe he has been acclaimed in Vienna, Valencia, Liège, Geneva, Edimburgh, Baden Baden, Warsaw, Luxembourg, Ancona and Cagliari. He has also been invited to a number of festivals such as Glyndebourne (Carmen) and Aix-en-Provence (Die Zauberflöte) or Wiener Festwochen.
He has sung under the baton of Ludovic Morlot, Marc Minkowski, Paolo Arrivabeni, François-Xavier Roth, David Parry, Philippe Auguin, William Christie, Kazushi Ono… He works with such stage directors as David Mc Vicar, Macha Makeïeff, Jean-François Sivadier, Jean-Louis Grinda, Jean-Paul Scarpitta, Christophe Honoré…
With the London company Opera Rara, he has recorded Vert-Vert by Offenbach as well as Ermione by Rossini, Maria di Rohan by Donizetti and La Princesse de Trébizonde by Offenbach.
He has recently sung Giglio in Les Aventures du Roi Pausole, Fantasio and Der Zigeunerbaron at Grand Théâtre de Genève, La Favorite and Samson et Dalila at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, L’Amour des trois oranges at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Die Zauberflöte in Nice, Marseille, Valencia and at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Le Nozze di Figaro (Basilio) and Rigoletto in Montpellier, Eugene Onegin in Montpellier, Limoges and Tours, Die tote Stadt à Limoges, Lakmé in Marseille, Montpellier, Avignon, and with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Hippolyte et Aricie, Carmen and Les Mamelles de Tirésias in Glyndebourne, Dialogues des Carmélites in Lyon and in Bologna, Orphée aux Enfers in Marseille and the Folies d’O Festival, Barbe-bleue in Nantes, Angers, Rennes and Le Mans, Tosca, La Favorite and Die Entführung aus dem Serail in Marseille, Fantasio at the Opéra Comique, Barkouf and Werther in Strasbourg, Turandot in Montpellier and Marseille, Carmen in Venice, Les Contes d’Hoffmann and Norma in La Monnaie, Yvonne, princesse de Bourgogne, A quiet place and Carmen at the Opéra National de Paris, Roméo et Juliette (Tybalt) in Québec, Falstaff in Lille, Caen and Luxemburg.
In concert he has recently sung Fantasio at the Festival Radio France Montpellier, Berlioz Roméo et Juliette in Toulouse and in Stuttgart, Die Entführung aus dem Serail in concert version with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris at the Philharmonie de Paris, L’Heure espagnole on tour with Les Siècles, Maître Péronilla with the Orchestre National de France at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, La Princesse de Trébizonde with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Among his projects this season: Carmen at the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, at the Opéra de Lausanne, Dialogues des Carmélites at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and the théâtre impérial de Compiègne, Pénélope by Fauré at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich…
January 2025
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