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Thomas Morris
tenor
The
French tenor Thomas Morris was born in 1971 in Paris. He studied voice with
Georgette Rispal of the Paris Opera, while studying Humanities and Russian at
the University of Paris-Sorbonne. He received a First Prize at the Concours Supérieur
de Chant des Conservatoires de Paris, and also won prizes at many international
competitions, including those of Marseille, Treviso, Marmande, and Verviers. In
2000, he was awarded the Grand Prix de la Musique Française at the Henri
Sauguet/Yves Saint-Laurent International Competition.
Thomas Morris has sung in many of Europe's most important theatres including
those in Paris, Strasbourg, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Toulouse, Montpellier,
Bordeaux, Toulon, Avignon, Rennes, Tours, Nantes, Lille, Rouen, Caen, Compiègne,
Cosenza, Genova, Macerata, Martina-Franca, Napoli, Padova, Treviso, Torino,
Venezia, Baden-Baden, Dresden, Köln, Bregenz, Wien, Genève, Lausanne, Prague,
Bratislava, and Vilnius. He is also an accomplished artist for recitals and
oratorio.
Among his recent appearances are : "Les Contes d'Hoffmann", "Les
Mamelles de Tirésias", "Andrea Chénier", "Die Zauberflöte",
"Turandot" by Puccini and "Turandot" by Busoni at the
Macerata Opera Festival ; "La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein" and the
Gala Evening "Pier Luigi Pizzi, una vita nella Musica" at the Teatro
la Fenice di Venezia ; "La Juive" at the Lithuanian National Opera (Vilnius)
; "Les Aventures du Roi Pausole", "La Grande Duchesse de
Gerolstein" and "La Gioconda" at the Opéra de Nice ;
"Candide" and "Garibaldi en Sicile" at the Teatro San Carlo
di Napoli ; "Les Mamelles de Tirésias" at the Opéra de Toulon, Oper
der Stadt Köln and Statni Opera Praha ; "Il Cappello di Paglia di
Firenze" at the Opéra de Lausanne ; "Le Carosse du Saint-Sacrement"
(Opéra Comique) and "Louise" (Bastille -cover-) in Paris.
Thomas Morris has recorded "The Cunning Little Vixen" by Janàcek (Bregenz
- CD ORF), "La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein" by Offenbach (Martina
Franca - CD Dynamic), "Le Premier Cercle," a world premiere by Gilbert
Amy (Opéra de Lyon - CD Harmonia mundi), "Mélodies Françaises Duparc/Gounod/Koechlin/Roussel/Severac"
(CD Henri Lemoine), "Eugene Onegin" (Baden-Baden/Théâtre des
Champs-Elysées - DVD Arthaus), "Les Contes d’Hoffmann" (Macerata -
DVD Dynamic), "Die Zauberflöte" (Cirque National Alexis Gruss -
France 3), "Carmen" (Stade de France - France 2), "Les Mamelles
de Tirésias" (Macerata Opera Festival/Statni Opera Praha), "Pier
Luigi Pizzi, una vita nella Musica" (Teatro la Fenice), "Recital de Mélodies
Françaises Chabrier/Milhaud/Rosenthal/Satie/Poulenc" (Festival de Radio
France et Montpellier - France Musique/Mezzo).
Directors: Elena Barbalich, Olivier Bénézech, Luc Bondy, Eric Chevalier, François
de Carpentries, Gian-Carlo del Monaco, Daniel Dollé, Paul-Emile Fourny,
Christophe Galland, Christian Gangneron, Jean-Louis Grinda, Stephan Grögler,
Massimo Gasparon, Lukas Hemleb, Karine van Hercke, Yannis Kokkos, Günter Krämer,
Erik Krüger, Georges Lavaudant, Nikolaus Lenhoff, Alain Maratrat, Lorenzo
Mariani, Pier-Luigi Pizzi, Edouard Reichenbach, Jean-Claude Riber, Tobias
Richter, Bertrand Rossi, Claude Santelli, Christian Schiaretti, Daniel Slater,
Ivan Stefanutti, Eric Vigié, Jean-Francois Vinciguerra, Christian von Götz.
Conductors: Jonas Aleksa, Maurizio Benini, Dietfried Bernet, Daniele Callegari,
Bruno Campanella, Frédéric Chaslin, Jean-Marc Cochereau, Edmon Colomer, Cyril
Diederich, Enrico Dovico, Vladimir Fedosseyev, Antonio Florio, Hans Graff, Marco
Guidarini, Alain Guingal, Michaël Hoffsteitter, Olivier Holt, Vladimir Jurowsky,
Nir Kabaretti, Bernhardt Kontarsky, Jan Latham-Koenig, Peter Maag, Pier Giorgio
Morandi, John Nelson, Renato Palumbo, Marcello Panni, Michel Plasson, Josep Pons,
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Claude Schnitzler, Jeffrey Tate, Guillaume Tourniaire,
Marc Trautmann, Emmanuel Villaume.
Among his upcoming engagements are: "Garibaldi en Sicile" at the
Accademia Santa Cecilia di Roma ; "Carmen" at the Terme Antiche di
Baia (summer season of the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli) ; "Die Entführung
aus dem Serail" at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari ; "Il Cappello di
Paglia di Firenze" at the Teatro Lirico di Genova ; "La Vie Parisienne"
at the Opéra de Nice ; "L'Enfant et les Sortilèges" at the Teatro
San Carlo di Napoli ; "Louise" in Paris (Bastille -cover-) ; "Les
Mamelles de Tirésias" at the Statni Opera Praha ; "La Juive" at
the Lithuanian National Opera (Vilnius) ; Opera and Songs Recitals and Oratorio
Concerts on Tour.
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