Tenor Antonin Rondepierre is a finalist of the Cesti Competition
We are proud to announce that the French tenor Antonin Rondepierre is a finalist in the 14th International Singing Competition for Baroque Opera Pietro Antonio Cesti.
The prestigious singing competition for Baroque Opera, named after the Italian composer Pietro Antonio Cesti, is one of the most prominent events in its field and the final round took place on August 27th at the Haus der Musik Innsbruck.
The jury of the 2023 Competition consists of Alessandro di Marchi, Sebastian Schwarz, Nicole Braunger, Ottavio Dantone, Samantha Farber, Hein Mulders and Susanne Schmidt.
In the final round, Antonin sang the arias Tal se gemma by Caldara and Se povero il ruscello by Händel. He has been awarded the engagement prize of the Festival della Valle d’Itria from festival director Sebastian Schwarz.
Antonin’s upcoming season
Recently, Antonin Rondepierre has been taking on more important parts of the baroque repertoire: he will sing the title role of Télémaque in Destouches’ Télémaque et Calypso with ensemble Les Ombres at the Festival d’Ambronay. Last season he already sang the title role of Charpentier’s Actéon at the Opéra de Rennes, and Joabel in Charpentier’s David et Jonathas with Marguerite Louise led by Gaétan Jarry in Versailles and Potsdam.
Furthermore, he will perform Campra’s Requiem with Les Arts Florissants led by William Christie, the role of Triton in Campra’s Iphigénie en Tauride with Le Concert Spirituel led by Hervé Niquet, Phantase in Lully’s Atys with Les Talens Lyriques led by Christophe Rousset, Morphée, Dieu de fleuve and Zéphyr in Lully’s Atys with Les Ambassadeurs – La Grande Écurie led by Alexis Kossenko. Next summer, he will return to the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence for a new project with Raphael Pichon.
More information about Antonin on his artist page.
Antonin Rondepierre is represented worldwide by Rozemarijn Tiben
E: rozemarijn.tiben@interartists.nl
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Recent highlights
Highlights of the last two seasons include his debut at Opéra national du Rhin in the roles of Soldato/Familgiare 2 in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, a tour performing cantatas by Bach and Buxtehude with ensemble Pygmalion and Raphael Pichon, his debut at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence as a soloist in Combattimento, The Black Swan Theory (with music by Monteverdi, Rossi and Cavalli), Monteverdi’s Orfeo (title role) in the audiovisual production Orfeo 5063 with Les Paladins and Jérôme Correas at the Opera de Massy. Antonin has taken part in many productions of Ensemble Correspondances: Locke’s Cupid and Death, Charpentier’s Les plaisirs de Versailles and Te Deum and Messe de minuit pour Noël, and Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri.
Born in 1996, Antonin Rondepierre began singing at the age of 9 at the Maîtrise de Paris, under the direction of Patrick Marco. He studied choral conducting with Marianne Guengard before entering the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles (CMBV) in 2016, where he perfected his skills in the 17th-century French repertoire under the direction of Olivier Schneebeli. In 2020 he graduated from the CNSM in Paris.