Cyrille Dubois
Cyrille Dubois (born 27 September 1984) is a French tenor performing as an opera and lieder singer. Early life and education. Cyrille Dubois spent his childhood in Ouistreham in Normandy, France. As a child he demonstrated an early talent for singing and joined the Maîtrise de Caen as a soprano where he read music and studied the organ. At age 14 he was Miles in the Turn of the Screw at the Opéra de Lyon. While studying at the Rennes Superior School for Agronomy where he took his degree in fisheries science, he continued practising singing as a  tenor at the . In 2008 he was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris and in 2010 to the Paris Opera workshop that gave him the opportunity to sing and play major opera parts. Career. In 2010 Dubois created the "Duo Contraste" with pianist Tristan Raës. Together they have performed recitals in France at Opéra Bastille and other concert halls, such as in Venice, Italy, at Wigmore Hall, England, and the Hermitage Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia. In 2012 he portrayed Nathanaël in "les Contes d'Hoffmann" at La Scala. The following year he made his début with the Théatre de la  Monnaie in Brussels as Azor in "La Dispute", a contemporary opera by Benoît Mernier. A performance as Gérald in "Lakmé" followed. In 2014 he sang Oronte in "Alcina", Pâris in "La Belle Hélène" and was Coelio in "les Caprices de Marianne" by Henri Sauguet and toured around France. In 2015, he performed as Narciso in "Il Turco in Italia" and made his début at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in Maurice Ravel's "L'heure espagnole". The same year he appeared as Brighella in "Ariadne auf Naxos" and Worker in "Le Roi Arthus". In 2016 he performed as Marzio in "Mitridate, re  di Ponto" and Belmonte in "Die Entführung aus dem Serail". Discography. Opera. Dubois has appeared as leading role on opera recordings such as Saint-Phar in Grétry's "La Caravane du Caire" conducted by Guy Van Waas; Marzio in Mozart's "Mitridate" conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm, Mercury in Lully, Persée 1770 with Hervé Niquet in 2017; title role of "Pygmalion" (Rameau) with Christophe Rousset, 2017; Iopas in "Les Troyens" (Hector Berlioz), 2017; title role in "Tarare" (Salieri) with Christophe Rousset; Curiace in "les Horaces" (Salieri) with Christophe Rousset, 2017; Nadir in "Les Pêcheurs de Perles" (Bizet) with Alexandre Bloch, 2018  ; Gérard in "La Reine de Chypre" (Fromental Halévy) with Hervé Niquet, 2018; Colin in "Le Devin du Village" (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) with Sébastien d'Hérin, recorded at Versailles, 2018; title role in "Fortunio" (André Messager), 2019; Loti in "L'île du Rêve" (Reynaldo Hahn) with Hervé Niquet, 2020; "Dardanus" (Jean-Philippe Rameau) with György Vashegyi , 2021; L'Autre in "Point-d'Orgue", music by Thierry Escaich, libretto and staging by Olivier Py, 2021;