Mathias Vidal, Chœur de lOpéra Royal, Ensemble Il Caravaggio & Camille Delaforge
Biography Mathias Vidal, Chœur de lOpéra Royal, Ensemble Il Caravaggio & Camille Delaforge
Mathias Vidal
studied Musicology at the University of Nice and studied singing with teacher Christiane Patard. He graduated from the Paris Conservatory in 2003.
Praised for his qualities in the French repertoire, he took part in many operas by Rameau, Lully, Campra, Boismortier and also Monteverdi, Purcell, Cavalli… In the French light-music repertoire, he sang in such productions as Orphée aux Enfers, La Vie Parisienne, La Périchole, Fra Diavolo, La Belle Hélène, La Veuve Joyeuse, Le Dilettante d'Avignon, Barbe-Bleue, Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde, La Fille de Madame Angot, L'Auberge du Cheval Blanc... His repertoire also includes Italian bel-canto roles such as Nemorino from L'elisir d'amore, Ernesto from Don Pasquale, Elvino from La sonnambula, Almaviva from Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Ramiro from La Cenerentola and the title-role of Le Comte Ory. He also sings the French romantic repertoire together with the 20th century and contemporary pieces.
In the past few seasons, he was heard in the title-role of Platée by Rameau (Zürich), Atys by Lully (Avignon, Tourcoing, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées), Abaris from Les Boréades (Oldenburg, Dijon), Valère and Tacmas from Les Indes Galantes, Thespis from Platée and Der vierte Jude from Salomé (Paris Opera), Tamino from Die Zauberflöte (Avignon, Versailles), Ferrando from Cosí fan tutte (Toulouse), Belmonte from Die Entführung aus dem Serail (French version in Versailles), Nemorino from L'Elisir d'Amore (Angers, Nantes), Rennes, Ernesto from Don Pasquale (Oldenburg), Nadir from Les Pêcheurs de perles (Toulouse), Aristée/Pluton from Orphée aux Enfers (Komische Oper Berlin, Düsseldorf) as well as many title-roles : Platée, Orlando Paladino, Orphée et Eurydice, Le Comte Ory, Cinq-Mars, Faust, Der Zwerg...
He is very much in demand on the lyric stages in France as in the rest of Europe, Asia, the US and in Russia. He regularly takes part in live and studio recordings in a broad and versatile repertoire.
His projects for season 2024-2025: The Prince from Les Brigands by Offenbach and Monostatos from Die Zauberflöte at the Paris Opera, Tamino from Die Zauberflöte in Versailles, Aristée / Pluton from Orphée aux Enfers at the Capitole in Toulouse, Valère / Don Carlos / Tacmas / Damon from Les Indes Galantes at the Seine Musicale in Paris, at the Teatro Real in Madrid and in Lyon. Concert-wise: La Messe de Minuit by Charpentier in Versailles, the title-role of Persée by Lully at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and a Purcell / Charpentier program at the Seine Musicale and in Arras.
Camille Delaforge
Hailed as “dynamic and inspired” by Forum Opera, Camille Delaforge is a French conductor and harpsichordist, specialising in the Baroque repertoire.
2024/25 season highlights include Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with Netherlands Chamber Orchestra at Dutch National Opera, and Rameau’s Pygmalion at Opéra Royal de Versailles, alongside engagements at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and Grand Théâtre de Provence among others. As founder and artistic director of Ensemble Il Caravaggio, a period ensemble committed to the French and Italian lyrical repertoire, Delaforge conducts over fifty performances this season at prestigious venues, including Opéra de Rennes, Opéra Angers Nantes, La Seine Musicale and Festival Saint-Denis.
A resident conductor at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence last season, alongside Emmanuelle Haïm, other recent engagements have included Orchestre national de Cannes, Festival International de Beaune, Festival de Sablé, Oude Muziek Festival, Festival de Bilbao and Festival de Radio France. Delaforge has collaborated with numerous ensembles such as Le Poème Harmonique, Le Concert de la Loge and Orfeo 55, performing at Philipszaal in The Hague, Wigmore Hall London, Salzburger Festspiele and Victoria Hall in Geneva.
Passionate about the vocal repertoire, Delaforge has worked with opera singers at the Festival de Sablé, Festival Radio France (Montpellier), Potager du Roi (Versailles), Oude Muziek Festival (Utrecht), Rosa Bonheur Festival and Agapé Festival (Geneva) among others. She has a longstanding collaboration with French bass-baritone Guilhem Worms, with whom she has worked on several chamber music programmes, including Mozart and Salieri (piano for four hands, with Karolos Zouganelis), La Dame de mes Songes (Franco-Spanish repertoire from the 20thcentury) and Near my heart (French melodies).
Delaforge holds a Master’s degree from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris. Keen on developing socio-cultural exchanges through music education, she has initiated a number of humanitarian projects, including teaching underprivileged children in Ecuador and, with Il Caravaggio, leading cultural mediation projects in schools and for disadvantaged groups in the regions of Val d’Oise, Essonne and Plaine Saint-Denis.
She has recorded for Warner, Alpha, Klarthe, and Château de Versailles Spectacles.
