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André Heyboer

Bariton

Since his debut at the Capitole of Toulouse in 2005, the baritone André Heyboer has performed on the stages of Marseille, Dijon, Hong Kong, Montpellier, Lille, Limoges, Monte Carlo, Avignon, Toulon, Amsterdam, Opera Comique, Paris National Opera, Champs Elysée Theater, Sao Paulo, Munich Prinzregententheater, Theater an der Wien, Palau del las Artes in Valencia, …

Under the baton of Mr. Armiliato, R Abbado, P Domingo, L Campellone, D. Ettinger, A. Guingal, D. Oren, D. Reiland, C. Rizzi, L. Hussain, E. Pido, U. Schirmer, P. Steinberg, …

In productions signed P. Audi, G. Bouillon, L. Baur, JL. Grinda, N. Joel, C. Padrissa (Furia del Baus),S. Poda , GC. Del Monaco, Y. Oïda , C Serreau …

To his credit, he played in stage the roles of Athanael in Thaïs, Zurga in les Pêcheurs de Perles, The High Priest in Samson and Dalila, Nilakantha in Lakmé, Germont in Traviata, Paolo in Simon Boccanegra, Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly… and the title roles of Nabucco and Macbeth….

In 2010, he is the father in a contemporary opera: La Métamorphose by Mickael Levinas who receives the Grand Prix of the Charles Cros Academy 2012 and the prize of the Lyric Academy of the disc.

He recorded Les Bayadères de Catel and Cinq-Mars de Gounod for the Palazetto Bru Zane Label.

In the 2018/19 season, he sang the title role of Macbeth at the operas of Limoges, Reims, Massy. Then Gérard in Chénier at the opera of Tours, Albert in Werther at the Capitole of Toulouse. Followed by Paolo in Simon Boccanegra at Salzburger Festspiele.

In 2019/20 he reprised the role of Macbeth at Opera de Massy. Followed by Zurga in Pecheurs de perles at Opera de Lille. At Opera Theatre de Saint-Etienne he sang Tonio in Pagliacci, Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana and was supposed to sing Germont in La Traviata which was cancelled due to the Corona pandemic.

 Engagements in recent years include, amongst others, Jago in Otello at Opera Theatre de Saint-Etienne, Macbeth (title role) at Theater and Philharmonie Essen, Athanael in Thais at Oper de Tours, Germont in La Traviata at Opera Theatre de Saint-Etienne and Sharpless in Madama Butterfly at Opera National de Bordeaux.

In 2024 he will sing Miller in Louisa Miller at Opera de Tours and Scarpia in Tosca at Opera Grand Avignon.

Repertoire:

Bizet

Les Pêcheurs de perles – Zurga
Charpentier, G.

Louise – Le Premier Philosophe
Delibes

Lakmé – Nilakantha
Donizetti

Lucia di Lammermoor – Lord Henry Ashton
Giordano

Andrea Chénier – Roucher
Gounod

Faust – Valentin – Wagner
Cinq-Mars – Le vicomte de Fontrailles
Halévy, F.

La juive – Ruggiero
Hersant

Les Éclairs – Edison
Lalo

Le Roi d’Ys – Jahel
Leoncavallo

Pagliacci – Tonio
Levinas

La metamorphose – Le Père
Mascagni

Amica – Père Camoine
Cavalleria rusticana – Alfio
Massenet

Manon – M. de Brétigny
Thaïs – Athanael
La Navarraise – Garrido
Poulenc

Dialogues des Carmélites – Der Kerkermeister – Der Marquis de la Force
Puccini

Turandot – Ein Mandarin
La fanciulla del West – Sonora
Tosca – Sciarrone – Baron Scarpia – Der Mesner
Gianni Schicchi – Marco
Madama Butterfly – Sharpless
Reyer

Salammbô – Spendius
Saint-Saëns

Samson et Dalila, op. 47 – Oberpriester des Dagon
Verdi

Rigoletto – Graf von Monterone – Marullo
Macbeth – Macbeth
La Traviata – George Germont
Un ballo in maschera – Silvano
Simon Boccanegra – Paolo Albiani
Otello – Jago
Luisa Miller – Miller
Ernani – Don Karl
Nabucco – Nebukadnezar
Wagner, Richard

Tristan und Isolde – Melot