Biography

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Alongside his studies in drama, Matthieu Justine studied voice in Paris before furthering his training with Laurent Naouri. He also took part in Ludovic Tézier’s masterclasses at the Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy.

He soon began performing on stage, with roles including Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) in Le Havre and Abbeville; Piquillo (La Périchole) at the Espace Cardin; High Tenor (Martha by Wolfgang Mitterer) at the Opéra de Reims; Fritz (La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein) at the Espace Cardin, in Perpignan and at the Opéra de Clermont-Ferrand; Count Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at the Opéra de Rouen, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Odéon de Marseille and the opera houses of Avignon, Reims, Toulon, Montpellier and Nice; as well as Gustave (Pomme d’Api) and Babylas (Le Singe d’une nuit d’été by Gaston Serpette) in Marseille, Toulon, Nice and Avignon.

He has also performed Nemorino (Un Élixir d’amour, after Donizetti) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées; Alfredo (La Traviata) at the Opéra de Reims and Opéra de Clermont-Ferrand; Piet (Le Grand Macabre by Ligeti) at the Auditorium de Radio France with the Orchestre National de France; Facio (Fantasio) at the Opéra Comique; Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) at the opera houses of Clermont-Ferrand and Reims; the First Commissioner (Dialogues des Carmélites) at the Opéra de Rouen; Pâris (La Belle Hélène) in Marseille; the Parisian Journalist (Les Mamelles de Tirésias) at the opera houses of Limoges and Avignon; and Nathanaël and Spalanzani (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) at the Opéra Comique.

In concert, he has sung the tenor solo in numerous sacred works, including Charpentier’s Te Deum, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, St Matthew Passion and St John Passion, Handel’s Messiah, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Mozart’s Requiem, Gounod’s La Rédemption and Dvořák’s Stabat Mater. He has also performed Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with the Ensemble Orchestral de Dijon, as well as Porcus (Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher) at the Festival de Pâques d’Aix-en-Provence under the direction of Jérémie Rhorer.

More recently, he has appeared as Orphée (Orphée aux Enfers) at the Opéra de Tours, the Steersman (Der fliegende Holländer) at the Opéra de Toulon, the First Commissioner (Dialogues des Carmélites) at the Teatro Regio di Torino, and Borsa (Rigoletto) at the Opéra de Lausanne.

His forthcoming engagements include Normanno (Lucia di Lammermoor) at the Philharmonie de Paris, as well as a Jew and the Second Nazarene (Salome) at the Opéra de Rouen.