Alexandre Duhamel

The French baritone Alexandre Duhamel studied at Paris National Conservatory and was a member of the Opéra de Paris’s Young Artist Program. For his outstanding achievements, he was awarded the “Prix Lyrique du Cercle Carpeaux” and the “Prix de l’Association pour le rayonnement de l’Opéra National de Paris” and was nominated for the Victoires de la Musique Classique Award in the category “Révélation lyrique de l’année.”

In the 2023/24 season, he made his debut at the Enescu Festival as Golaud in Pelléas et Mélisande and at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence as Thoas in Iphigénie en Tauride. He returned to the Opéra National de Toulouse as Zurga in Les pêcheurs de perles. After performing Jupiter in Orphée aux enfers in Hamburg, he made his debut as Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde in Lille.

The 2024/25 season, Alexandre Duhamel started with engagements as Thoas in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride in a production by Dmitri Tcherniakov at the Greek National Opera. He performed the role of Marquis de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. Additional highlights included Escamillo in Carmen at the Opéra Royal de Versailles, as well as symphonic concerts featuring works by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Maurice Ravel at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and together with the Orquestra Simfónica de Barcelona under the musical direction of Ludovic Morlot. At the Opéra de Marseille, he will be seen as Gunther in Ernest Reyer’s Sigurd.

Other engagements of the previous seasons included Marcello in La Bohème at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Lescaut in Manon at the Liceu in Barcelona, and the title roles in Don Giovanni and Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte at the Opéra Royal de Versailles. He sang as Golaud in Pelléas et Mélisande in Tokyo and Lille, Escamillo in Carmen in Tokyo, the title role in Guillaume Tell at the Opéra de Marseille, and Ramiro in L’Heure Espagnole in Stuttgart and Munich.

Other highlights were his Don Giovanni and Don Alfonso at the Gran Teatre de Liceu in Barcelona, Panthée in Les Troyens at Teatro alla Scala, under the baton of Sir Antonio Pappano, Nevers in Les Huguenots in Genève, Le Grand-Prêtre in Alceste in Lyon and many more. He gave his house debut at the Opéra National de Paris in Gianni Schicchi and has regularly returned as a guest artist for productions such as L’enfant et les sortilèges, La fanciulla del West, Don Giovanni, Le roi Arthus, Platée, and Les Indes galantes.

Duhamel has recorded the role as Golaud in Pelléas et Mélisande on CD, both for harmonia mundi and for Alpha Classics.

Published April 2025