Across his extensive career, Alexandre Duhamel has collaborated with many inspiring conductors and directors, performed at major theatres and festivals including Teatro alla Scala, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Opéra national de Paris, Deutsche Oper Berlin and Glyndebourne Festival, and amassed a diverse repertoire of roles, making many of them his own.
At the heart of Duhamel’s repertoire is a deep affinity with the French dramatic tradition. His acclaimed Golaud has taken him to more than ten productions worldwide and is preserved on two award-winning recordings for Alpha Classics and Harmonia Mundi. Other major roles have included Thoas in Iphigénie en Tauride most recently at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence under Emmanuelle Haïm in Dmitri Tcherniakov’s acclaimed production, Grand-Prêtrein Samson et Dalila at Opéra national de Bordeaux under Paul Daniel, and Marquis de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées under Karina Canellakisin Olivier Py’s iconic staging. In addition to the roles of Forester in Cunning Little Vixen, Sancho in Don Quichotte, Jupiter in Castor et Pollux and the title role of Guillaume Tell, Duhamel is a highly experienced Mozartian, singing Leporello in Don Giovanni and Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte in several different productions over the course of his career. In most recent seasons, he has expanded his repertoire into increasingly dramatic territory, as Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde at Opéra de Lille and Alberich in Siegfried at Staatsoper Stuttgart, both conducted by Cornelius Meister, as well as Heerrufer in Lohengrin at Opéra national de Montpellier with Michael Schønwandt.
In demand for the concert stage, Duhamel has appeared at the BBC Proms, Elbphilharmonie, and the Festivals de Radio France and Saint-Denis, performing with ensembles including the Seattle Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Orquesta Simfònica de Barcelona. His concert repertoire ranges from Berlioz, La Damnation de Faust and Beethoven, Symphony No.9 to Boulanger, Faust et Hélène and Puccini, Messa di Gloria among many others.
