Biography

After graduating from Supélec, Christian Helmer studied voice at the École Normale de Musique in Paris.

Since then, he has taken part in many productions, including as Guglielmo (Cosi fan tutte) at the Feldkirch and Antibes Festivals, Le Bret (Alfano’s Cyrano de Bergerac) alongside Placido Domingo at the Théâtre du Châtelet and the Teatro Real in Madrid, Friauche (Le Dernier jour d’un condamné) at the Avignon Opera alongside Roberto Alagna, Orbozzano (Tancredi) and Cecil (Maria Stuarda) at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.

Outside France, Christian Helmer has appeared in Gelsenkirchen and Nuremberg (Le Comte Ory, La Bohème, Otello, Donizetti’s L’Assedio di Calais, L’Incoronazione di Poppea), as well as in Dublin (Don Giovanni), Madrid, Amsterdam (Iphigénie en Aulide) and Bari (as Pietro in Portici’s La Muette).

He recently sang Marquis de Granville (Luca Francesconi’s Trompe la Mort), Panthée (Les Troyens), Baron Douphol (Traviata) and Wagner (Faust) et the Opéra National de Paris, Charles-Simon Favart (Madame Favart) at the Opéra-Comique, in Dijon and in Caen, Capulet (Roméo et Juliette) in Bordeaux, Chambellan (Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg) in Lille, Hérode (Massenet’s Hérodiade) in Saint-Etienne à l’Opéra National de Paris, Escamillo (Carmen) in Massy and in Reims.

He is currently preparing to sing Escamillo (Carmen) in Clermont-Ferrand and Scarpia (Tosca) in Compiègne and in Reims…