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After a full course at the Conservatoire de Nancy with Christiane Stutzmann, Christophe Gay is laureate of the contest Symphonies d'Automne de Mâcon and Revelation Classique Adami 2004.
He made his debut at the Opera de Nancy in Il Prigioniero de Luigi Dallapiccola, then invited on various French stages and abroad (the world premiere of Enigma by Detlev Glanert at the Montepulciano Festival, Carmen at the Glyndebourne Festival). He has appeared in numerous productions of baroque operas (Iphigénie en Tauride by Gluck, Orfeo, Platée, King Arthur, Castor and Pollux, Dido and Aeneas) under the direction of conductors such as René Jacobs, Christophe Rousset and Hervé Niquet. , in the Mozartian repertoire (Don Giovanni, Guglielmo of Così fan tutte, Papageno of The Magic Flute) as well as in the repertoire of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Carmen, Rigoletto, Lakmé, Andrea Chénier, Madame Butterfly, The Tales of Hoffmann, Wozzeck, Candide). He performed at the Opéra Comique in L'Étoile de Chabrier under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner and Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tiresias and performed the title role of Viktor Ullmann's Der Kaiser von Atlantis in Nancy, at the Cité de la Music in Paris, Caen and Luxembourg. His concert repertoire includes Handel's Messiah, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Fauré's Requiem, Bacalov's Misa Tango, Charpentier's Pastorale, Gounod's Mors e Vita, Puccini's Messa di Gloria, Carmina Burana by Carl Orff . More recently, he sings in The Tales of Hoffmann (directed by Laurent Pelly) in Lyon and Tokyo, L'Étoile and Les Mamelles de Tiresias in Nancy, King Arthur at Versailles, Platée in Stuttgart, Don Giovanni in Saint-Céré , Fortunio in Limoges and Rennes, La Lettre des sables by Christian Lauba (creation) in Bordeaux, Lakmé in Toulon, Mimi by Frédéric Verrières (creation) at Les Bouffes du Nord, La Traviata (Marquis d'Obigny), Manon (Brétigny) , La Vie Parisienne (Bobinet) and Hamlet (Horatio) in Marseille, La Vie Parisienne and Lakmé in Avignon, Carmen (Dancaïre) at the Glyndebourne Festival, Madame Butterfly (Yamadori) at Chorégies d'Orange, La Vie Parisienne in Lausanne, The King Carrot in Lille, The Italian in Algiers (Haly) in Nancy ...
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Popolani (Offenbach's Bluebeard) at the Opéra de Lyon.