Stanislas de Barbeyrac

The 2024-25 season sees de Barbeyrac return to Royal Ballet and Opera as Siegmund in a new production of Die Walküre by Barrie Kosky and conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano. He sings the role of Erik Der fliegende Holländer in Valencia and in concert at Norwegian National Opera, which is set for a release on Decca Classics and makes his company debut in the role of Pylade Iphigenie en Tauride for Greek National Opera, a role he sang to great critical acclaim for the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.

Last season de Barbeyrac made a series of highly exciting role debuts: as Jason in Cherubini Médée in a new production at Teatro alla Scala in Milan (also his company debut) and at the Staatsoper Berlin; and as Siegmund Die Walküre on a tour of Europe with the Rotterdam Philharmonic and Yannick Nézet-Séguin and with the Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and Omer Meir Wellber. Further highlights included his return to the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence as Pylade; Don José Carmen at Opéra de Rouen Normandie, and in concert at the Théâtre de Champs-Élysées; Verdi Requiem with the Philharmonia Orchestra under the baton of Santtu-Matias Rouvali and Pelléas Pelléas et Mélisande at the George Enescu Festival.

Previous successes include Erik Der fliegende Holländer at Staatsoper Berlin; Don José Carmen also in Berlin, Dutch National Opera and Bordeaux; Piquillo in a new production of Offenbach’s La  Périchole at the Theatre de Champs-Elysées conducted by Marc Minkowski; Max Der Freischütz at Semperoper Dresden; the title role of Pelléas Pelléas et Mélisande at Gran Teatre del Liceu, Theatre de Champs-Elysées, Opéra National de Bordeaux, in Tokyo and in concert in Cologne and Compiegne, France; Florestan Fidelio with Insula Orchestra under the baton of Laurence Equilbey; Tamino Die Zauberflöte, a reference role in his career in Aix-en-Provence Festival, Dutch National Opera, Chorégies d’Orange; Opéra de Paris; Opernhaus Zürich, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Teatro Real and in Budapest; Don Ottavio Don Giovanni at Wiener Staatsoper, Metropolitan Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, San Francisco Opera and Opéra National de Paris; Tito La Clemenza di Tito  at Opéra National de Paris; Arbace Idomeneo at Royal Ballet and Opera; Lensky Eugene Onegin at Théâtre du Châtelet and Chevalier de la Force in Poulenc Dialogues des Carmélites at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Bayerische Staatsoper, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, and Dutch National Opera.

On the concert platform, de Barbeyrac joined the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra for Beethoven Missa Solemnis under the baton of Klaus Mäkelä; the Insula Orchestra for a series of celebratory anniversary concerts and the Grand Théâtre de Genève for a New Year’s Eve concert conducted by Marc Leroy Calatayud. Other recent concert highlights saw him perform at Concert de Paris for Bastille Day at the Eiffel Tower; at the Salzburg Festival in Mozart’s Davide Penitente and Haydn Die Schöpfung; Mozart Requiem at the Verbier Festival; several recital appearances in Paris and Barcelona; concerts with Gaëlle Arquez at the Festival d’Auvers-sur-Oise and Licinius La Vestale at Palazzetto Bru Zane.

Stanislas de Barbeyrac studied at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux with Lionel Sarazzin, who remains his vocal mentor today. He has been a prize-winner at several prestigious competitions, including the Prix du Cercle Carpeaux, Prix Lyriques de l’AROP, and Queen Elisabeth International Competition in Brussels. De Barbeyrac joined the Atelier Lyrique of the Opéra de Paris in 2008 and subsequently began his operatic career at theatres in Nice, Tours, Toulon, Strasbourg, Metz, Marseille and Avignon.