Yann Beuron

After studies in sociology, Yann Beuron studied singing at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, with Anna Maria Bondi, and obtained the first prize in 1996. In December 1995, he made his debut at the Opéra du Rhin as Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, under the direction of William Christie. The following year, he made his debut at the Palais Garnier in Paris in a new production of Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie. He returned to this theatre in 2004 to sing a new production of Ravel’s L’Heure espagnole, in 2006 to sing a new production of Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride. In subsequent years, his engagements rapidly increased: Così fan tutte (Bordeaux, Stuttgart), Idomeneo (Marseille), Don Giovanni (Lisbon), Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Mignon (Toulouse), Falstaff (Marseille, Festival d’Aix en Provence), La Cenerentola (Brussels, Lausanne), La Belle Hélène (Théâtre du Châtelet), Hamlet and L’Heure espagnole (Royal Opera House Covent Garden and recently in Stuttgart under the baton of Stéphane Denève and La Scala conducted by Marc Minkowski), Dialogues des Carmélites (Theater an der Wien with Bertrand de Billy). In 2003, Yann Beuron made his debut in the United States with the San Francisco Opera (Il Barbiere di Siviglia). In recent seasons, Mr. Beuron returned to the Paris Opera (Yvonne, Princesse de Bourgogne, Alceste by Gluck and Les Contes d’Hoffmann) and to the Aix Festival (Idomeneo and Pinocchio by Philippe Boesmans). He also made his debut at the Mozart Festwochen in Salzburg (Idomeneo), at the Teatro Real in Madrid (Iphigénie, Pelléas et Mélisande and La Clemenza di Tito) and at Covent Garden (Dialogues des Carmélites under Simon Rattle) the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam (Iphigénie), Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich (Dialogues des Carmélites), the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie (Pelléas et Mélisande, Au Monde and Pinocchio by Boesmans, La Vestale by Spontini). He sang the rare Le Roi Carotte and Barbe-Bleue by Offenbach staged by Laurent Pelly at the Opéra de Lyon, La Dame blanche by Boieldieu at the Opéra Comique. A frequent guest soloist on the concert podium, he has performed with the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestre de Bordeaux-Aquitaine, the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Rotterdam Philharmonic and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He recently sang with les Musiciens du Louvre in Mozart’s Requiem (Paris, Barcelona, Valencia, Hamburg, Krakow…). Mr. Beuron has recorded for DGG-Archive, EMI France, Virgin Classics, Erato and Philips Classics. His recent recordings include the third part of Fauré’s complete series (for Timpani) and L’Enfance du Christ under the baton of Sylvain Cambreling (for Glor Classics), Saint-Saëns melodies with Orchestra (for Alpha Classics)… Recently, he came back to the Opéra National de Paris in Le Soulier de satin (Don Pélage) de Marc-André Dalbavie et Oedipe (Laïos) de Georges Enesco and sang Spalanzani in Les Contes d’Hoffmann at La Scala di Milano Among his future projects: Les Brigands (Campotasso) at the Opéra National de Paris and a creation by Bruno Mantovani at the Théâtre National du Capitole de Toulouse. Since 2011, he works with his voice teacher Daniel Ottevaere.   February 2024