Sébastien Droy

Sebastien Droy is a French tenor who studied musicology for 4 years at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1999, he entered the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris as a singer.
After receiving his diploma in 2003, he began a career which consisted mainly in opera singing. From the very start he performed around 25 different roles ranging from the baroque period to XXth century music.
Among his favourite and most frequently sung repertoire are roles from Mozart operas. He sang: Ottavio (Don Giovanni) at Tours and Monte Carlo Opera Houses, Ferrando (Cosi fan tutte) at Saint-Etienne Theater, at the Rhin National Opera and in several summer festivals as Antibes and Beaune (directed by Marc Minkowski), Idamante (Idomeneo) at the Rhin National Opera and at the Auditorium of Lyon, Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) at the Saint-Etienne Theater, Agenore (Il Re Pastore) at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris and at the Innsbrück Opera House (Austria), and Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) in five different productions at the Saint-Etienne, Marseille, Metz and Strasbourg Opera Houses and lately at the Bordeaux National Opera.
He also performed many different roles in France and abroad, such as Adonis (Vénus et Adonis, by Desmarest) at the Lorraine National Opera conducted by Christophe Rousset, Pylade (Iphigénie en Tauride, by Gluck), Il Conte Almaviva (Il Barbiere di Siviglia, by Rossini) in Nancy, Tours Rennes and Toulon Opera Houses, Pâris (La Belle Hél?ne, by Offenbach) at the Capitole Theater of Toulouse and then in Lausanne (Switzerland), Nantes, Bordeaux and Strasbourg Opera Houses, Alfred (Die Fledermaus, by J.Strauss) in Toulouse, Fenton (Falstaff, by Verdi) in Montpellier, Andreloun (Mireille, of Gounod) at the Paris National Opera, Tybalt (Romeo et Juliette, of Gounod), at the De Nederlandse Opera of Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Le Chevalier de La Force (Dialogues des Carmélites, by Poulenc) in Avignon, and recently Cassio in Otello by Verdi in Marseille, Rodrigue (Rodrigue et Chim?ne, by Debussy) at the Saint-Petersburg Philharmonic Hall (Russia) and Tom Rakewell (The Rake’s Progress, by Stravinsky) at the Lorraine National Opera, Fritz (La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein, by Offenbach) at the Royal Opera of Wallonie, Artémidore and Le Chevalier Danois (Armide, by Gluck) at the DNO in Amsterdam.
Sebastien Droy also frequently sings sacred music and the Oratorio repertoire : L’Enfance du Christ by Berlioz at Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral and in Lyon, J.S Bach’s B-Minor Mass in many festivals and the Saint John Passion at the Radio France Auditorium, the Mozart Requiem in Budapest… and works with conductors such as Serge Baudo, John Nelson, Michel Corboz, Kurt Mazur or Ivan Fischer, in European countries (Germany : Brehmen and Halle, Belgium : Brussels, Italy : Venice, Hungary : Budapest, Russia, Saint Petersburg, Spain : Bilbao, Valencia..)
Lastly, Sebastien Droy holds a deep appreciation for the more intimite and delicate side of French Melody and Lieder, but also for its rougher and more passionate dimension. He sang recitals of works by Fauré, Debussy, Gounod, Liszt, Schumann and Brahms (Mélodies de Venise, Ariettes Oubliées, La Biondina, Dichterliebe, Die Schöne Maguelone..) in France, for instance at the Nancy, Bordeaux, Montpellier Opera Houses and at the Paris National Opera (Opéra Garnier).
Among his projects are the roles of Fenton (Falstaff) and Alfredo Germont (La Traviata) at Tours Opera House, Ferrando (Cosi fan tutte) in Tours and Antwerpen, Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) in Metz, Benedict (Béatrice et Benedict, by Berlioz) at La Monnaie in Bruxelles, and concerts such as La Grande Messe des Morts de Berlioz, at the Royal Festival Hall, conducted by Esa Pekka Salonen.


Discography


Sacred music:


- Grands Motets by Desmarest, with the Concert Spirituel, conducted by Hervé Niquet
- Messes by Charpentier, with the Concert Spirituel, conducted by Hervé Niquet
- B-Minor Mass, by J.S.Bach, conducted by Michel Corboz.
- La Mort d’Abel, by Kreisler (role of Abel), recorded at the Philharmonic Hall of Li?ge.


Operas:


- Venus et Adonis by Desmarest (role of Adonis), with Les Talens Lyriques, conducted by Christophe Rousset.
- Tom Jones by Philidor (role of Tom Jones) recorded at the Lausanne Opera House (Switzerland), conducted by Jean-Claude Malgoire.
- Vert-Vert by Offenbach, recorded with the London Philharmonia Orchestra, for Opera Rara, and conducted by David Parry.
- La Cour de Célim?ne, by Ambroise Thomas, (role of Le Chevalier), recorded with the London Philharmonia Orchestra, for Opera Rara, conducted by Andrew Litton.