Jean-Paul Fouchécourt has been one of the main exponents of the French Baroque repertoire for the last decade, working with such conductors as William Christie, Marc Minkowski, René Jacobs and Christophe Rousset. Many of the highlights of Jean-Paul Fouchécourt’s career thus far have come from his appearances with Marc Minkowsky and his Musiciens du Louvre. His performances and recording of works by Rameau and Lully have been received with great acclaim.
He is noted for his rare and beautiful haute-contre tenor voice. In addition he has in the last few years performed repertoire from Berlioz to Offenbach and Britten. He made his Metropolitan Opera début in Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffman, and has sung the title rôle in Rameau’s Platée in a joint production of the Edinburgh Festival and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He has also recorded Poulenc’s Les mamelles de Tirésias with Seiji Ozawa. Recent performances include Britten’s Les Illuminations at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester with the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier, a new production of Platée at the Paris Opéra, Arnalta in L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, The Four Servants in Les contes d’Hoffman at Covent Garden and at the Chorégies d’Orange Festival, Arnalta at the Netherlands Opera, as well as L’Arithmétique and Le Fils in L’enfant et les sortilèges and Les mamelles de Tirésias at the Metropolitan Opera.
He has performed at the Saito Kinen Festival with Seiji Ozawa, at the New York City Opera in Platée’s title rôle, at the Metropolitan Opera in Les contes d’Hoffman, and at the Zurich Opera in L’incoronazione di Poppea under Nicolas Harnoncourt. In 2005-06 he appeared at the London Promenade Concerts in Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette, at the Metropolitan Opera in Falstaff and Manon, at the Lyon Opéra in Les contes d’Hoffman, at the Paris Opéra in Platée, the Cincinnati Opera in L’étoile by Chabrier, and the Geneva Opera for L’incoronazione di Poppea, to be followed by appearances at the Metropolitan Opera in Eugene Onegin and his début at the Sante Fe Opera in the title rôle of Platée.
Jean-Paul Fouchécourt taught voice at the Paris Conservatoire National from 1994 to 1997 and now gives many prestigious master-classes. He has made more than seventy recordings for which he has received numerous awards and extraordinary praise. His recording of Gluck’s Orphée et Euridice with Opera Lafayette conducted by Ryan Brown (Naxos 8.660185-86) was released by Naxos in 2005.
He has been honoured as a Chevalier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite by the French Government.
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