Tenor

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 inLully’s Armide at the Haydneum in Budapest led by György Vashegyi, 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’s Magnificat 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 Hermione with 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 under Raphaël Pichon.

Recent highlights also include the title role in Destouches’ Télémaque et Calypso with Les Ombres 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.

Born in 1996, Rondepierre began singing at age 9 with the Maîtrise de Paris under Patrick Marco. He studied choral conducting with Marianne Guengard before joining the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles in 2016, where he specialised in 17th-century French repertoire under Olivier Schneebeli. From 2018, he pursued vocal studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (CNSM) with Isabelle Guillaud. He joined the Jaroussky Academy's Young Artists Programme in 2023/24 and is a Talent Classique Adami artist for the 2024/25 season.

His discography includes Grands Motets by Pierre Robert (CMBV/Olivier Schneebeli, Label CVS, 2020); Je m’abandonne à vous, an airs de cour album with Marc Mauillon and Céline Scheen (Harmonia Mundi, 2021); Lalande’s Grands Motets with Ensemble Correspondances (Harmonia Mundi, 2022); Monteverdi’s Vespers with Pygmalion (Harmonia Mundi, 2023); Charpentier’s David et Jonathas (Château de Versailles Spectacles, 2023); Destouches’ Télémaque et Calypso (Château de Versailles Spectacles, 2024); and Lully’s Atys (Château de Versailles Spectacles, 2024).