Antonin Rondepierre

Mezzo-soprano
Written By Rozemarijn Tiben

Antonin Rondepierre

Tenor

Antonin Rondepierre is managed worldwide by Rozemarijn Tiben.

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Praised for his ‘musical intelligence’, ‘delicate, poetic phrasing’ and ‘full, round timbre’ (Classical Concert and Forum Opéra), the French tenor Antonin Rondepierre is considered a rising star of the opera and early music scene. He has debuted at opera companies such as Opera Atelier Toronto, Opéra-Comique, and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. As a concert soloist, he frequently performs with ensembles such as Pygmalion, Les Talens Lyriques, Le Concert Spirituel, and Marguerite Louise. He is a two-time award winner at the Gordes Mélodie Competition 2022 and received the Festival della Valle d’Itria prize at the Cesti competition 2023.

Highlights of the 2025/26 season include his role debut as Pelléas (Pelléas et Mélisande) at the Opera Atelier Toronto, as well as a role debut as Renaud in Lully’s Armide at the Haydneum in Budapest, and numerous concerts: Shepherd in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex with the Vienna Philharmonic led by Lorenzo Viotti at the Salzburger Festspiele, Händel’s Messiah with the Residentie Orchestra led by Chloe Rooke, Bach’s Magnificat with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Mozart’s Great Mass in C with Le Concert de la Loge led by Julien Chauvin, early Cantatas by J.S. Bach with Pygmalion led by Raphaël Pichon (Welt Gute Nacht), and the roles of Soleil and Prince Thyrien in Lully’s Cadmus et Hermione with Les Talens Lyriques led by Christophe Rousset.

In the 2024/25 season, Antonin Rondepierre made four important role debuts and sang in five staged opera productions. These included Acis in Handel’s Acis and Galatea at Opera Atelier Toronto; Thélème in Rameau’s Les Fêtes d’Hébé at the Opéra-Comique in a new production by Robert Carsen with Les Arts Florissants under William Christie; and Panait in Martinu’s The Greek Passion with Pygmalion under Raphaël Pichon. He also reprised the role of Joabel in Charpentier’s David et Jonathas at Opera Atelier Toronto and the Château de Versailles. In concert, he sang the title role in Rameau’s Dardanus at the Opera Rara Festival in Kraków. Other concert appearances included Tenor II in Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Les Ambassadeurs under Thibault Noally, and Tenor II and III in Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine with the French Radio Choir and Le Consort under Lionel Sow, as well as with Pygmalion under Raphaël Pichon.

Recent highlights also include the title role in Destouches’ Télémaque et Calypso with Les Ombres at the Festival d’Ambronay and in Versailles; a return to the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in Rameau’s Samson; Triton in Campra’s Iphigénie en Tauride with Le Concert Spirituel under Hervé Niquet; the roles of Phantase, Morphée, and Dieu de fleuve in Lully’s Atys with Les Talens Lyriques at the Wiener Konzerthaus and on tour in France with Les Ambassadeurs; the title role in Charpentier’s Actéon at the Opéra de Rennes; Joabel in David et Jonathas with Marguerite Louise under Gaétan Jarry in Versailles and Potsdam; Soldato/Famigliare 2 in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Opéra National du Rhin; Combattimento and The Black Swan Theory (featuring music by Monteverdi, Rossi, and Cavalli) at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence; and Monteverdi’s Orfeo (title role) in the audiovisual production Orfeo 5063 with Les Paladins and Jérôme Correas at the Opéra de Massy. As a soloist with Ensemble Correspondances led by Sébastien Daucé, he has performed in Charpentier’s Les Plaisirs de Versailles, Te Deum, and Messe de Minuit pour Noël, as well as Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri and Locke’s Cupid and Death.

Born in 1996, Rondepierre began singing at age 9 with the Maîtrise de Paris under Patrick Marco. He studied choral conducting with Marianne Guengard before joining the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles in 2016, where he specialised in 17th-century French repertoire under Olivier Schneebeli. From 2018, he pursued vocal studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (CNSM) with Isabelle Guillaud. He joined the Jaroussky Academy's Young Artists Programme in 2023/24 and is a Talent Classique Adami artist for the 2024/25 season.

His discography includes Grands Motets by Pierre Robert (CMBV/Olivier Schneebeli, Label CVS, 2020); Je m’abandonne à vous, an airs de cour album with Marc Mauillon and Céline Scheen (Harmonia Mundi, 2021); Lalande’s Grands Motets with Ensemble Correspondances (Harmonia Mundi, 2022); Monteverdi’s Vespers with Pygmalion (Harmonia Mundi, 2023); Charpentier’s David et Jonathas (Château de Versailles Spectacles, 2023); Destouches’ Télémaque et Calypso (Château de Versailles Spectacles, 2024); and Lully’s Atys (Château de Versailles Spectacles, 2024).

Highlights 2024-25

September 2024:
Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine with Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion at the Philharmonie de Paris, de Singel Antwerp, and Château de Versailles.

October 2024:
Role debut as Acis in Händel’s Acis and Galatea at Opera Atelier Toronto.

November-December 2024:
Role debut as Thélème in Rameau’s Les Fêtes d’Hébé at the Opéra-Comique with Les Arts Florissants led by Willliam Christie in a new production by Robert Carsen.

February 2025:
Dardanus (title role) at the Opera Rara festival in Krakow.

April 2025:
Joabel in Charpentier's David et Jonathas at Opera Atelier Toronto and the Château de Versailles.
Tenor II in Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Les Ambassadeurs led by Alexis Kossenko at the Easter Festival in Aix-en-Provence.
Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine with the French Radio Choir and Le Consort led by Lionel Sow.

May 2025:
Joabel in Charpentier's David et Jonathas at the Château de Versailles.

June 2025:
Role debut as Panait in Martinu’s The Greek Passion in Bordeaux.

July 2025:
Shepherd in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex at the Salzburger Festspiele with the Wiener Philharmoniker led by Lorenzo Viotti.

 
 

Reviews

Morphée and Dieu de fleuve in Lully’s Atys, Les Ambassadeurs, Théâtre des Champs Elysées

“Antonin Rondepierre is the diamond of the evening: his high notes, with a velvety softness, transport us during the entertainment of sleep just as they carry us away when he embodies the great god of the river.”
— ForumOpera

Locke’s Psyché / Ensemble Correspondances

“Antonin Rondepierre’s voice is large and full of character, animated by a homogeneous vibrato. The articulation, words and rhythms, provide slender consonants and clear vowels, in a very Elizabethan theatricality that he maintains when he leaves his pulpit.”
— Olyrix

Joabel in Charpentier’s David et Jonathas at the Chapelle Royale de Versailles. Ensemble Marguerite Louise, cond. Gaétan Jarry, dir. Marshall Pynkoski

“The physical musularity of tenor Antonin Rondepierre suits Joabel’s rage and grounds his voice in a certain strength to express his spite and desire for revenge”
— Olyrix
“The whirling Joabel of the tenor Antonin Rondepierre has a very good stage presence and makes his character come alive in a few scenes. The beautiful, clear voice does the rest.”
— Res Musica

Combattimento / Festival d’Aix-en-Provence

“Tenor Antonin Rondepierre put in a solid performance [...] His singing was secure and the voice displayed versatility.”
— Operawire

Orfeo 5063 / Les Paladins

“Antonin Rondepierre showed great precision in his heroic phrasing, with the dignity of Orfeo.”
— Olyrix
“Antonin Rondepierre was given the role of Orfeo, which he performed with poetry and a rich timbre.”
— Forum Opéra
“The tenors Jordan Mouaissia and Antonin Rondepierre also stand out for their musical intelligence, the latter playing a virtuoso Orpheus.”
— Classical concert

Cupid & Death / Ensemble Correspondances

“We were particularly charmed by Antonin Rondepierre’s extensive range, a voice with a remarkable ease in the upper register, without ever losing its confidence.”
— BaroquiadeS
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