Antonin Rondepierre

Mezzo-soprano
Written By Rozemarijn Tiben

Antonin Rondepierre

Tenor

Antonin Rondepierre is managed worldwide by Rozemarijn Tiben and Fernando de Testa.

Contact:
Artist Manager
E: rozemarijn.tiben@interartists.nl
T: +31 6 34 272 282

Assistant Artist Manager
E: fernando.detesta@interartists.nl
T: +33 7 48 25 93 63

Praised for his ‘musical intelligence’, ‘delicate, poetic phrasing’ and ‘full, round timbre’ (Classical Concert and Forum Opéra), the French tenor Antonin Rondepierre is considered a rising star of the early music and opera scene. A recent graduate of the Centre de Musique Baroque Versailles, his talent has been recognised early on by conductors such as Olivier Schneebeli, Sébastien Daucé, Raphaël Pichon, and Gaétan Jarry. He regularly performs as a soloist with period ensembles such as Pygmalion, Les Talens Lyriques, Les Ambassadeurs-La Grande Écurie, and Marguerite Louise. He is a laureate of the 2022 Concours international de la Mélodie in Gordes where he received two awards, and of the 2023 Cesti Competition, where he received an engagement prize. He is Talent Classique Adami for the 2024-25 season.

During the 2024/25 season, he makes his debut as Acis in Händel’s Acis and Galatea at Opera Atelier Toronto, as Thélème in Rameau’s Les Fêtes d’Hébé at the Opéra-Comique with Les Arts Florissants led by Willliam Christie in a new production by Robert Carsen, and as Dardanus (title role) at the Opera Rara festival in Krakow. He revives the role of Joabel in Charpentier's David et Jonathas at Opera Atelier Toronto and the Château de Versailles. He will also debut the role of Panait in Martinu’s The Greek Passion in Bordeaux. In concert, he sings the part of Tenor II in Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Les Ambassadeurs led by Alexis Kossenko, and Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine with the French Radio Choir and Le Consort led by Lionel Sow, as well as with Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion.

Highlights of last season include the title role of Télémaque in Destouches’ Télémaque et Calypso with ensemble Les Ombres at the Festival d’Ambronay and in Versailles, his return to the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in Rameau’s Samson, Bach cantata concerts in Germany with Pygmalion, Triton in Campra’s Iphigénie en Tauride with Le Concert Spirituel and Hervé Niquet, the roles of Phantase, Morphée, Dieu de fleuve in Lully’s Atys with Les Talens Lyriques at the Wiener Konzerthaus and on tour in France with Les Ambassadeurs.

In previous seasons, he 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, Soldato/Famigliare 2 in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Opéra National du Rhin, Combattimento, The Black Swan Theory (with music by Monteverdi, Rossi and Cavalli) at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and Monteverdi’s Orfeo (title role) in the audiovisual production Orfeo 5063 with Les Paladins and Jérôme Correas at the Opera de Massy. Antonin has also performed as a soloist 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, he 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. From 2018 on, he studied at the CNSM with Isabelle Guillaud. During the 2023/24 season, he took part in the Young Artists Programme of the Académie Jaroussky.

His discography includes Pierre Robert's Grands Motets with the CMBV under the direction of Olivier Schneebeli (Label CVS, 2020), an airs de cour album Je m’abandonne à vous with Marc Mauillon and Céline Scheen (Harmonia Mundi, 2021), De Lalande’s Grands Motets with Ensemble Correspondances (Harmonia Mundi, 2022), Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine with Pygmalion (Harmonia Mundi, 2023), Charpentier’s David et Jonathas (Château de Versailles Spectacles, 2023), Destouches’ Télémaque et Calypso (Château de Versailles Spectacles, 2024), Lully’s Atys (Château de Versailles Spectacles, 2024).

Highlights 2024-25

September 2024:
Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine with Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion at the Philharmonie de Paris, de Singel Antwerp, and Château de Versailles.

October 2024:
Role debut as Acis in Händel’s Acis and Galatea at Opera Atelier Toronto.

November-December 2024:
Role debut as Thélème in Rameau’s Les Fêtes d’Hébé at the Opéra-Comique with Les Arts Florissants led by Willliam Christie in a new production by Robert Carsen.

February 2025:
Dardanus (title role) at the Opera Rara festival in Krakow.

April 2025:
Joabel in Charpentier's David et Jonathas at Opera Atelier Toronto and the Château de Versailles.
Tenor II in Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Les Ambassadeurs led by Alexis Kossenko at the Easter Festival in Aix-en-Provence.
Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine with the French Radio Choir and Le Consort led by Lionel Sow.

May 2025:
Joabel in Charpentier's David et Jonathas at the Château de Versailles.

June 2025:
Role debut as Panait in Martinu’s The Greek Passion in Bordeaux.

 
 

Reviews

Morphée and Dieu de fleuve in Lully’s Atys, Les Ambassadeurs, Théâtre des Champs Elysées

“Antonin Rondepierre is the diamond of the evening: his high notes, with a velvety softness, transport us during the entertainment of sleep just as they carry us away when he embodies the great god of the river.”
— ForumOpera

Locke’s Psyché / Ensemble Correspondances

“Antonin Rondepierre’s voice is large and full of character, animated by a homogeneous vibrato. The articulation, words and rhythms, provide slender consonants and clear vowels, in a very Elizabethan theatricality that he maintains when he leaves his pulpit.”
— Olyrix

Joabel in Charpentier’s David et Jonathas at the Chapelle Royale de Versailles. Ensemble Marguerite Louise, cond. Gaétan Jarry, dir. Marshall Pynkoski

“The physical musularity of tenor Antonin Rondepierre suits Joabel’s rage and grounds his voice in a certain strength to express his spite and desire for revenge”
— Olyrix
“The whirling Joabel of the tenor Antonin Rondepierre has a very good stage presence and makes his character come alive in a few scenes. The beautiful, clear voice does the rest.”
— Res Musica

Combattimento / Festival d’Aix-en-Provence

“Tenor Antonin Rondepierre put in a solid performance [...] His singing was secure and the voice displayed versatility.”
— Operawire

Orfeo 5063 / Les Paladins

“Antonin Rondepierre showed great precision in his heroic phrasing, with the dignity of Orfeo.”
— Olyrix
“Antonin Rondepierre was given the role of Orfeo, which he performed with poetry and a rich timbre.”
— Forum Opéra
“The tenors Jordan Mouaissia and Antonin Rondepierre also stand out for their musical intelligence, the latter playing a virtuoso Orpheus.”
— Classical concert

Cupid & Death / Ensemble Correspondances

“We were particularly charmed by Antonin Rondepierre’s extensive range, a voice with a remarkable ease in the upper register, without ever losing its confidence.”
— BaroquiadeS
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