Praised for his ‘musical intelligence’, ‘delicate, poetic phrasing’ and ‘full, round timbre’ (Classical Concert and Forum Opéra), the French tenor Antonin
Rondepierre is considered a rising star of the opera and early music scene.
He has debuted at opera companies such as Opera Atelier Toronto,
Opéra-Comique, and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. As a concert soloist, he
frequently performs with ensembles such as Pygmalion, Les Talens Lyriques,
Le Concert Spirituel, and Marguerite Louise. He is a two-time award winner at
the Gordes Mélodie Competition 2022 and received the Festival della Valle
d’Itria prize at the Cesti competition 2023.
Highlights of the 2025/26 season include his role debut as Pelléas (Pelléas et
Mélisande) at the Opera Atelier Toronto, as well as a role debut as Renaud in
Lully’s Armide at the Haydneum in Budapest, and numerous concerts:
Shepherd in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex with the Vienna Philharmonic led by Lorenzo Viotti at the Salzburger Festspiele, Händel’s Messiah with the Residentie Orchestra led by Chloe Rooke, Bach’sMagnificat with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Mozart’s Great Mass in C with Le
Concert de la Loge led by Julien Chauvin, early Cantatas by J.S. Bach with Pygmalion led by Raphaël Pichon (Welt Gute Nacht), and the roles of Soleil and Prince Thyrien in Lully’s Cadmus et Hermionewith Les Talens Lyriques led by Christophe Rousset.
In the 2024/25 season, Antonin Rondepierre made four important role debuts and sang in five staged
opera productions. These included Acis in Handel’s Acis and Galatea at Opera Atelier Toronto;
Thélème in Rameau’s Les Fêtes d’Hébé at the Opéra-Comique in a new production by Robert Carsen
with Les Arts Florissants under William Christie; and Panait in Martinu’s The Greek Passion with
Pygmalion under Raphaël Pichon. He also reprised the role of Joabel in Charpentier’s David et
Jonathas at Opera Atelier Toronto and the Château de Versailles. In concert, he sang the title role in
Rameau’s Dardanus at the Opera Rara Festival in Kraków. Other concert appearances included Tenor
II in Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Les Ambassadeurs under Thibault Noally, and Tenor II and III in
Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine with the French Radio Choir and Le Consort under Lionel
Sow, as well as with Pygmalion.
Recent highlights also include the title role in Destouches’ Télémaque et Calypso with Les Ombre at the Festival d’Ambronay and in Versailles; a return to the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in Rameau’s Samson; Triton in Campra’s Iphigénie en Tauride with Le Concert Spirituel under Hervé Niquet; the roles of Phantase, Morphée, and Dieu de fleuve in Lully’s Atys with Les Talens Lyriques at the Wiener Konzerthaus and on tour in France with Les Ambassadeurs; the title role in Charpentier’s Actéon at the Opéra de Rennes; Joabel in David et Jonathas with Marguerite Louise under Gaétan Jarry in Versailles and Potsdam; Soldato/Famigliare 2 in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Opéra
National du Rhin; Combattimento and The Black Swan Theory (featuring music by Monteverdi, Rossi, and Cavalli) at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence; and Monteverdi’s Orfeo (title role) in the audiovisual production Orfeo 5063 with Les Paladins and Jérôme Correas at the Opéra de Massy. As a soloist
with Ensemble Correspondances led by Sébastien Daucé, he has performed in Charpentier’s Les Plaisirs de Versailles, Te Deum, and Messe de Minuit pour Noël, as well as Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri and Locke’s Cupid and Death.
