Biography

After earning a diploma in Fine Arts, Vincent Le Texier studied voice under Udo Reinemann before entering the Paris Opera’s Ecole d'Art Lyrique.

He has sung the baroque repertoire, Mozartian roles (Leporello, Don Giovanni, le Comte, Alfonso), 19th century opera (Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Der Freischütz, La Damnation de Faust, Faust, Carmen, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, La Bohème...), 20th century opera (Gurlitt’s Wozzeck, Capriccio, Dallapiccola’s Il Prigioniero...), and premiered the works of many contemporary composers, both in France and abroad.

He has a passion for French Melody and Lieder, and also regularly performs recitals.

He has sung his favourite roles on major international stages (Golaud in Pelléas et Mélisande, the Four Villains in Les Contes d’Hoffmann...), and important dramatic roles (Scarpia in Tosca, Der Fliegende Holländer, Philippe II in Don Carlo, Rautavaara’s Rasputin). He has also played Wozzeck and Jochanaan (Salomé) at the Paris Opera. His repertoire also includes rarer works: Simone (Zemlinsky’s Eine Florentinische Tragödie), Petrus (Orff’s Der Mond), Jaroslav Prus (The Makropulos Affair), Pandolfe (Massenet’s Cendrillon). He premiered as Saint François d'Assise at Salle Pleyel, conducted by M.-W. Chung, and then in Madrid.

He has played Scarpia in Bern, Dikoj (Katya Kabanova), Tchelio (The Love for Three Oranges), Don Estoban (Der Zwerg) and Golaud at the Paris Opera,  Jochanaan in Liege, Sao Paolo and Essen, Créon (Cherubini’s Médée) at the Théâtre des Champs Élysées, Martin’s Golgotha in Amsterdam, the title role of Der Fliegende Holländer in Barcelona, Eumée (Fauré’s Pénélope) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Don Estoban (Der Zwerg) in Munich. At La Monnaie, he has sung the title role in Don Quichotte, Créon (Cherubini’s Médée) and Gessler (Rossini’s William Tell) in concert. He has also appeared as Bernard Baer (in the world premiere of Philippe Hurel’s Les Pigeons d’Argile) in Toulouse,  Ruggiero (La Juive) at the Lyon Opera and Don Iñigo Gomez (L’Heure Espagnole) at La Scala.

More recently, he has sung at the Lille Opera for the premiere of A. Lavandier’s opera Premier Meurtre , Nilakantha (Lakmé) at the Tours Opera, Eumée (Pénélope), Harasta (The cunning little vixen) at the Théâtre de la Monnaie, Gepetto (Pinocchio) at this same theater and at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and  in Dijon,  Messiaen's Saint-François d'Assise in Japan and Le Bailly (Werther) in Vichy, Arkel (Pelléas et Mélisande) at the National Opéra du Rhin, Basilio (Barbiere di Siviglia) in Saint-Etienne, Nick Shadow (Rake's Progress) in Nice, Barbe-Bleue (Dukas's Ariane et Barbe-Bleue) in Toulouse,The General Boum (La Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein) in Köln the medecin (Inondation) at the Paris Opera Comique,the Title role of Massenet's Don Quichotte in Saint-Etienne,Salieri (Mozart and Salieri) in Toulon, Aye (Akhnaten) in Nice, Arkel (Pelléas et Mélisande) in Montpellier, in Modena and in Piacenza, Barbe-Bleue (Ariane et Barbe Bleue) in Nancy, le Bailli (Werther) in Lausanne, Bartolo (Nozze di Figaro) in Saint-Etienne.

Among his projects,   Balthazar (la Favorite) in Bordeaux, the Cardinal Campeggio (Henry VIII) in Brussels, Luther/Crespel (Les Contes d'Hoffmann) at the Paris National Opera...