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André Heyboer (born in 1971 in Brive-la-Gaillarde) is a French contemporary baritone.

In 1992, he entered the Conservatoire de Toulouse [fr]. In 2005, he began a career as a baritone. Today, he performs in works from the 19th century French and Italian repertoire (Verdi, Puccini, Bizet, Massenet) without neglecting contemporary creation (La Métamorphose by Michaël Levinas).

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Heyboer began his musical apprenticeship at the age of eleven when he began practicing singing in the choirs of Terrasson-Lavilledieu and the Camerata Vocal of Brive. He sang Renaissance, French, Italian and German Baroque repertoires in the festivals of la Vézère, La Chaise-Dieu and the Sylvanès Abbey [fr]. He studied classical guitar for eight years.

He moved from choral singing to the roles of soloist, and developed his technique through private teaching. He met artists such as José van Dam. He followed the master classes of the "Master of Music" and took part in several concerts alongside him. At the Capitole de Toulouse he was a soloist in Charpentier's Louise (direction by Nicolas Joel, conductor Michel Plasson).

He played Pristav in Boris Godunov, Noah in Britten's Noye's Fludde[1] and a Flemish Member of Parliament in Don Carlos.

From 2006 to 2010, he sang with some noted interpreters (Neil Schicoff, Roberto Scianduzzi, Violeta Urmana, Dennis O Neill, Annick Massis, Natalie Dessay, Sophie Koch, Ludovic Tezier). At the Capitole de Toulouse he sang Wagner in Faust, Jahel in Le roi d'Ys and Roucher in Giordano's Andrea Chenier.

At the Paris Opera he sang Rugierro in Fromental Halévy's La Juive (2007) and De Bretigny in Manon (2012).

In 2009 he sang on the land of his Dutch ancestors at the Amsterdam Opera House, performing La Juive. He sang Melot in Tristan und Isolde at the same time as he took on the role of Kurwenal at the Forum de Montpellier.

In Dijon, he played Macbeth (2008), Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor (2009), Valentin in Gounod's Faust (2007).

He took part in the premiere of Michaël Levinas's La Métamorphose at the Opéra de Lille, a production which won the "Grand Prix of the Academie Charles Cros" in 2012 and the "Prix de l'Académie lyrique du disque".

In 2012 he played Zurga at the Opéra comique in Bizet's Les Pêcheurs de Perles with Sonya Yoncheva and Dmitri Korshak[2] and Nicolas Testé.[3] At the end of that same year, he took part in the recording CD of Catel's Les bayadères, and (Olkar) in Sofia at the Centre de musique romantique française.

In 2013, he was Padre Camoine in Mascagni's Amica at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. In April of the same year, he sang, accompanied by Éloïse Urbain,[4] an opera recital as part of the "Great Performers" season of the Sinfonia festival in Périgord.

For the 2013–2014 season, he took the role of Nilakhanta in Lakméat the Opéra-théâtre de Saint-Étienne [fr]. At the Paris Opéra, Sonora in La fanciulla del West at Bastille, and finally Alfio at the Capitole de Toulouse in Cavalleria Rusticana. He took part in Tosca in the Dutch National Opera.

In the 2017–2018 season, he sang the cycle of the Winterreise accompanied by Éloïse Urbain in the season of the great interpreters of Sinfonia in Périgueux.

At the opera, he was Sharpless in Madame Butterfly at the Opéra de Limoges [fr], Count Ludorf in Gounod's La Nonne sanglante at the Opéra Comique, Germont in La Traviata at the Capitole de Toulouse, and finally the Great Priest in Samson and Delilah at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.

Roles

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2021

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Edison: Philippe Hersant's Les Éclairs, Opéra-Comique, Paris.[5]

2018

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Paolo Albiani: Gounod's La Nonne sanglante, Opéra Comique, conductor: Laurence Equilbey

Sharpless: Puccini's Madame Butterfly, Opéra de Limoges, conductor: Robert Tuohy

2017

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Paolo Albiani: Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, conductor: Pinchas Steinberg

Paolo Albiani: Verdi's Simon Boccanegra Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, conductor: Pinchas Steinberg

Trivia: Viva Verdi, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, conductor: Giampaolo Bisanti

2016

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2015

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2014

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2013

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2012

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2011

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2010

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  • Roucher: Giordano's Andrea Chénier with Irène Cerboncini, Zoran Todorovich, Marco Di Felice, Opéra de Marseille, conductor Fabrizio Maria Carminati
  • Lescaut: Massenet's Manon with Nathalie Manfrino and Florian Laconi, Marcel Vanaud, Opéra de Hong Kong, conductor Nicola Colabianchi

2009

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2008

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  • Macbeth: Verdi's Macbeth, with Cécile Perrin and Jérôme Varnier (Auditorium de Dijon), conductor: Dominique Trottein
  • Spendius: Ernest Reyer's Salammbô with Kate Aldrich, Gilles Ragon, Wojtek Smilek, Sebastien Guèze and Jean-Philippe Lafont, Opéra de Marseille, conductor Lawrence Foster

2007

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2006

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The jailer, the 2nd commissioner: Poulenc's Le Dialogue des carmélites with Barbara Ducret, Manon Feubel, Marie-Ange Todorovitch, Gilles Ragon, Opéra de Marseille, conductor Patrick Davin

2005

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Discography

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  • Catel's Les bayadères, Ensemble Solamentene Naturali, direction Didier Talpain, éditions Singulares
  • Michaël Levinas's La Métamorphose, Ensemble Ictus, direction Georges-Elie Octors, éditions Aeon

References

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  1. ^ L’arche de Noé
  2. ^ Dmitri Korshak
  3. ^ Nicolas Testé
  4. ^ Éloïse Urbain et Jacques Dupriez en concert (La Dépêche)
  5. ^ Les Éclairs, Opéra-Comique website, accessed 26 December 2021
  6. ^ David Reiland
  7. ^ Martina Serafin (Paris Opera)
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