Across his extensive career, Alexandre Duhamel has collaborated with many inspiring conductors and directors, performed at major theatres and festivals like 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. Debussy’s Golaud has featured especially prominently, embodying this character in over ten different productions as far afield as Tokyo, and featuring on two award-winning recordings, on Alpha Classics with Orchestra national de Bordeaux under Pierre Dumoussaud, and for Harmonia Mundi with Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth.
Additional roles featuring strongly in past seasons include Thoas in Iphigenie en Tauride, most recently at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence under Emmanuelle Haïm and in a new staging by Dmitri Tcherniakov, Grand-Prêtre in Samson et Dalila at Opéra national de Bordeaux under Paul Daniel, and Marquis de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites, lastly at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées under Karina Canellakis in Olivier Py’s iconic staging. He has appeared 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 addition to the roles of Forester in Cunning Little Vixen, Sancho in Don Quichotte, 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 in recent seasons.
Equally active on the concert platform, and with a broad repertoire including Boulanger’s Faust et Hélène, Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ and La Damnation de Faust, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solenelle, Fauré’s Requiem, Debussy’s L’enfant prodigue and Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 to name just a few. Duhamel has performed extensively, including at the BBC Proms, Festivals de Radio France and Saint-Denis, at the Elbphilharmonie, with Seattle Symphony orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Orquesta Simfònica de Barcelona.
