Frédéric Antoun

Internationally lauded, Québec-born tenor Frédéric Antoun’s voice has been described as “noble and sincere... the quality of his phrasing, his use of chiaroscuro and his radiant high notes...equal to any heard on international stages today.” (Opera Canada) Long associated with the operas of Thomas Adès, Antoun’s upcoming season includes appearances in the British composer’s The Exterminating Angel at Opéra national de Paris and his signature role of Caliban in The Tempest at the Wiener Staatsoper. He also looks forward to reprising Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Savonlinna Opera Festival.

This past season he sang Caliban in The Tempest at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, Gérald in Lakmé and Don José in Carmen at Paris’ Opéra-Comique, Narraboth in Salome at the Canadian Opera Company, and Mozart’s Requiem at Berlin’s Konzerthaus. 

Other recent appearances include Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Thespis in Platée, Ferrando in Così fan tutte, and François in Bernstein’s A Quiet Place (Opéra national de Paris), Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni (Royal Opera House), Tonio in La fille du régiment (Opéra de Lausanne, Opéra de Toulon, and Royal Opera House), Raúl in multiple premieres of The Exterminating Angel (Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, and Salzburg Festival), Pylade in Iphigénie en Tauride and Nadir in Les pêcheurs de perles (Opernhaus Zürich), Prince Charmant in Cendrillon (Brussels’ La Monnaie), and Laërte in Hamlet (Theater an der Wien). He has works regularly with esteemed stage directors, including Calixto Bieito, Robert Carsen, Atom Egoyan, Olivier Py, Laurent Pelly, Amy Lane, Robert Lepage, and Barrie Kosky.

No stranger to Canadian stages, Antoun has sung Fenton (Falstaff), Tamino (The Magic Flute), and Chevalier de la Force (Dialogues des Carmélites) for the Canadian Opera Company, and Edgardo (Lucia di Lamermoor) at Opéra de Montréal.

An accomplished concert artist, his repertoire includes Handel’s Messiah, Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri, Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ and Requiem, Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Mozart’s Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, and Bach’s Magnificat, St. Matthew Passion, and St. John Passion. He has been engaged by the New York Philharmonic, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, London Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Shanghai Symphony, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Colorado Symphony, and Orchestre de Paris.

Antoun has notably worked with conductors Bertrand de Billy, Johannes Debus, Gustavo Dudamel, Emmanuelle Haïm, Philippe Jordan, Marc Minkowski, Kent Nagano, Yannick Nezet-Séguin, Antonio Pappano, Jérémie Rhorer, Carlo Rizzi, and François-Xavier Roth.

January 2024

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