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Olivier Dumait* Tenor

 

Olivier Dumait studied at the Centre de Musique Baroque, Versailles and at London’s Royal Academy of Music. He was named Emerging Artist of the Year ("Nachwuchskünstler") by the magazine Opernwelt for his performance as Prologue in The Turn of the Screw.

 

Olivier has performed under  Pierre Boulez, Daniel Harding, Myung-Whun Chung, Sir Simon Rattle, Kazushi Ono, Suzanna Mälkki, Christophe Rousset, Esa Peka Salonen, Mark Minkowski in such prestgious venues as La Monnaie, Covent Garden, La Scala, Amsterdam Opera, Berlin Staatsoper, Flanders Opera,  Lausanne, Theater an der Wien, Ermitage Theatre  St Petersburg, Concertgebouw. In France where he comes from, he sang many times at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Théâtre du Châtelet, Salle Pleyel, and the opera houses of Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Lyon, Avignon, Montpellier, Tours, Limoges…

 

Opera engagement have included: Quint and Prologue (The Turn of the Screw), Agenore (Il Re Pastore), Antonin (Ciboulette), Médor (Roland), Schoolmaster (The Cunning little Vixen), Gastone (Traviata), Flavio (Norma), Mercure (Orpheus in the Underworld), Tybalt (Romeo and Juliette), Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas), Fairy Queen, Stravinsky’s Renard, Young prisoner (From the House of the Dead), Dancing Master and Scarmucho (Ariande auf Naxos), Jacquino (Fidelio), Céladon (Pastorale), Bois-Rosé (Les Huguenots), Gérard (Les Enfants terribles) …

 

His recordings include  Lully’s Roland with Les Talens Lyriques, and he can be seen on the DVD’s of the Aix-en-Provence The Turn of the Screw (Harding/Bondy) and the Boulez/Chérau From The House of the Dead. Broadcasts include Ubaldo in Judith Weir’s Armida for Channel 4 TV.

 

In concert, engagements have included Berlioz Roméo et Juliette, and L’Enfance du Christ, Britten Canticles and Serenade for tenor and horn, Fauré La Bonne Chanson, Jonathan Harvey’s Scene from an opera, Dichterliebe and Liederkreis, J.S.Bach Magnificat and B Minor Mass, Messiah, Haydn The Creation, Nelson Mass, Paukenmesse and Seven Last Words, Elijah, Mozart Coronation Mass, Mass in C Minor and Requiem, Schumann Das Paradies und die Peri

 

Recently Olivier Dumait appeared among others in the prestigious Matinee Series in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam performing Stravinsky’s Le rossignol with the Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra under Charles Dutoit and sung in a production of Janácek’s From the House of the Dead at the Opéra de Bastille in Paris.

 

July 2017