Paul Will be singing one of his favorite roles , Méphistophélès from La Damnation de Faust by Berlioz at the théâtre des Champs Élysées conducted by Cristian Macelaru with the Orchestre National de France .
After giving a masterclass in Oslo, Paul will start his season with a joint recital in the Carles en Scène festival alongside Jennifer Larmore and Julien Dran, followed by a series of concerts in Rostock In which he will debut Wotan’s farewell from Wagner’s Walküre, conducted by Marcus Bosch.
In October , he will be portraying Don Quichotte in the Ravel and Ibert songs with orchestra , with the RSB in Berlin , conducted by Vladimir Jurowsky.
For the 4th straight season, he will appear at the Staatsoper Berlin, this time in les Pêcheurs de Perles from Bizet in January, followed by his return at the Paris Opera for new rendition of the spectacular Thomas Ades opera the Exterminating Angel in march.
In May , he will be Frère Laurent in Romeo et Juliette from Gounod at he Hongkong opera.
After having recorded the part 20 years ago , Paul comes back to this amazing role of Temrouk , jumping in in Meiningen.
Paul will ne performing in Samson et Dalila conducted by wunder conductor Thomas Guggeis alongside Anita Rachvelishvili ,Elina Garanca , Brian Jagse and Egils Silins .
Paul is thrilled to announce his next season schedule.
After Singing the villain Sparafucile in Rigoletto in Rouen directed by Richard Brunel and conducted by Ben Glassberg in September, Paul will sing the Petite messe Solennelle de Rossini at the Invalides in Paris in October , he will then be back at the Berliner Staatsoper unter den Linden in Samson et Dallla under the baton of Daniel Barenboim and Thomas Guggeis alongside Elina Garanca. He will proceed at the Glyndebourne summer Festival in the awaited production of Le dialogue des Carmelites directed by Barrie Kosky and conducted by musical director Robin Ticciati.
Paul comes back at the Staatsoper for Samson et Dalila with Elina Garanca, Michael Volle and Andreas Schager.
Conducted by the young hugely talented Thomas Guggeis, replacing Daniel Barenboim .
Paul will portray again the role of Méphisto, in a new production in Köln in May and June 2021.
Conducted by Francois-Xavier Roth,
Paul had a great success in his first French 5 acts version rendition of Philippe 2 in Don Carlos.
you can still have a chance to see him in this parade role in the next two months.
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Paul is jumping in to replace Ildebrando D’Arcangelo as Méphistophélès in La damnation de Faust at the Paris Philharmonie with the Orchestre du Capitole conducted by Tugan Sokhiev, alongside Paul Groves and Karine Deshayes.
Paul’s 2019-2020 Season is online.
Check the dates on his schedule, some of them will be disclosed in a few weeks .
This a very rich new season , with many new roles as well as favourites.
Early start with Beethoven’s 9th Symphony conducted by Alain Altinoglu at Europa Open Air in Frankfurt will be followed by Méphistophélès in La damnation de Faust at the Berlioz festival with the Orchestre du Capitole conducted by Tugan Sokhiev.
Verdi will be at the center of his season starting with Sparafucile in Rigoletto at the Hongkong opera conducted by Paolo Olmi , followed by Verdi’s Requiem concerts in the emirates, and Filippo Secondo in Don Carlos , this time in the original french version, in the Saarlaändischen Staatstheater, conducted by Sebastien Rouland.
An exceptional musical event will be the world scenic première of L’Ange de Nisida from Donizetti at the eponymous theatre in Bergamo conducted by Jean-Luc Tingaud and directed by Francesco Micheli .
At the end of the season, Paul will return to the Glyndebourne festival for Poulenc’s dialogue des Carmélites as the Marquis de la Force, Directed by Barrie Kosky and conducted by Robin Ticciati.
