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The French tenor, Xavier de Lignerolles, starts studying violin at the age of 6. In 2006, he enters into the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique of Paris, where he joins the singing class of Pierre Mervant. He worked with Kenneth Weiss for the Baroque repertoire, with Jeff Cohen and Anne le Bozec for the Lied and Mélodie, with Graciane Finzi for the Contemporary repertoire. He got his prize in 2010. He took part in master-classes with Nathalie Stutzmann, Michael Levinas, Franck Leguérinel, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Malcolm King, Maarten Koningsberger, Nicole Fallien and is currrently studying with Lionel Sarrazin.
From 2007 to 2016, he sang regularly with the Solistes de Lyon-Bernard Tetu, sacred music as well as opera. Since 2014, with Nicole Corti and the chamber choir Spirito.
Since 2008 he hes sung varied répertoire : Cendrillon by Pauline Viardot (le Comte Barigoule) at the Musée d'Orsay’s auditorium, El Regreso by Oscar Strasnoy (le réceptionniste et Toni) at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, directed by Thierry Thieû Niang, La Cambiale di Matrimonio by Rossini (Edoardo Milfort) at Bastia Theatre in a production of Vincent Vittoz, Le Nozze di Figaro by W.A. Mozart (Don Curzio) conducted by Paolo Olmi at the Opéra National de Lorraine, La Chauve-Souris by Strauss (Alfred), Les Conjurées by Schubert (Alstof von Reisenberg) at the Opéra de Saint-Etienne and Salle Poirel in Nancy, the role of Antti Puuhaara, in the Musical Tale Antti Puuhaara, written by Tapio Tuomela, in the Sibelius Fondation of Helsinki and at the Opéra de Saint-Etienne, the role of Harlekin in the Opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Gastone in Traviata, the role of Martin in the opera La Digitale by Juan Pablo Carreno, at the Théâtre de la Criée and in the Teatro Colon of Bogota (Colombia), Alessandro in the opera Eliogabalo by Francesco Cavalli, at the Opera of Calais, the Chief of police in the opera of Denis Bosse La Lettre Volée, in Brussels.
In 2011, Xavier de Lignerolles created a vocal quartet, a cappella, Tarentule, specialized in the secular renaissance repertoire. With this Ensemble, he participated to the Utrecht Fringe in 2012, then in the Cité de la voix of Vezelay, and has been selected for the semi-finals of the international Van Wassenear competition in Utrecht, in 2014. Recently, they created the opera Barca di Venetia by Banchieri, a madrigalesque comedy for 5 voices, a cappella, at the Grand Théâtre of Calais, where he played the role of the Abbot. Since 2010, he collaborates with the Ensemble Musicatreize, under the direction of Roland Hayrabedian; this opportunity gives him today the chance to be one of the french tenor specialist in the contemporay music and to work with famous composers, as Michel Petrossian, Zad Moultaka, Alexandros Markéas or Philippe Schoeller, by example. He is invited by 2e2m, Solistes XXI and Le Balcon for many concerts.
A French melodies recital, around Francis Poulenc, Duparc, Gabriel Fauré, Debussy, repertory that he loves particulary, with the pianist Anne-Lise Saint-Amans, offers to Xavier de Lignerolles the chance to sing from Paris to Buenos Aires (Argentina). He also regularly performs on the concert platform : L.v. Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, W.A. Mozart's Requiem, Puccini's Messa di gloria, Dvorak's Stabat Mater, Franz Liszt's Psaume XIII, J.S. Bach's Passions... Future plans include among others many concerts with Musicatreize. In 2019, many concerts of W.A. Mozart's Requiem as soloist, in France. |
