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Nominated in the category "Lyrical Revelation of the Year" at the Victories of Classical Music Awards 2011, French Baritone Alexandre Duhamel studied at the Paris National Conservatory and was a member of the Paris Opera Young Artist Program. He was awarded 'The Lyrical Prize of the Carpeaux Circle' and 'The Association Prize for the outreach of the Opéra National de Paris', which both reward the most noticeable young singer during a season.
Alexander made His debut at the Paris National Opera in Gianni Schicchi and returned for The Clock and The Cat & The Child Charms, Jake Wallace The fancuilla del West, Masetto Don Giovanni, Le Roi Arthus Mordred, Cithaeron Plataea.
Other operatic performances include Panthée The Trojans at Teatro alla Scala, Zurga The Pearl Fishers in Salle Pleyel Concert Series Alongside Roberto Alagna and Nino Machaidze, The Viceroy The Périchole at Salzburg Festival, Golaud Pelléas and Mélisande at Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, Guglielmo Così fan tutte at Toulon Opera, The High Priest Samson and Delilah, Sancho Don Quixote, Paolo Simon Boccanegra for the Opera of Bordeaux, The High Priest Alceste at Lyon Opera, Ramiro L'Heure espagnole at Stuttgart Liederhalle and Munich's Prinzregententheater, der Herrufer Lohengrin at Montpellier National Opera, Albert Werther in Metz and Reims Harasta The Cunning Little Vixen at Glyndebourne Festival, Mercutio Romeo and Juliet for Avignon Opera, Ping Turandot at the Nice Opera, Leporello Don Giovanni at Besançon Opera and Belcore The Elisir of Amore at the Festival des Nuits Musicales de la Sainte Victoire.
He has worked with conductors including Michel Plasson, Sir Antonio Pappano, Marc Minkowski, Philippe Jordan, Carlo Rizzi, Alain Altinoglu, Jakub Hrůša ...
In concert, he has performed at the BBC Proms (For the funeral of a soldier, L. Boulanger), at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, in the 40th Anniversary concert of the Ancient Theater of Orange and has given recitals at Amphitheater and Studio Bastille, the Corum of Montpellier for the Radio France Festival, and at the Opera de Bordeaux. He made his US debut with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra under Ludovic Morlot for The Child and Spells. His concert repertoire includes Fauré's Requiem, Puccini's Messa di Gloria, Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle, Beethoven's Symphony No.9, Berlioz's L'Enfance du Christ and Debussy's The Prodigal Son. He has recorded Ramiro in Ravel's Spanish Hour with Stéphane Denève and Asher Fisch.
Engagements this season and beyond include Thoas Iphigénie en Tauride at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paolo Simone Boccanegra for Opera de Marseille Zurga The Pearl Fishers for Opera of Nice, Lescaut Manon and The Viceroy The Pércihole for Opera National de Bordeaux , Escamillo Carmen at the Imperial Theater of Compiègne, Alvar and Huascar The Indies Galantes for the Opera of Paris, The Count of Nevers The Huguenots at the Grand Theater of Geneva ...