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Bass-baritone

Benoît Capt

France

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Benoit Capt, was born in Geneva, where he studied singing with Marga Liskutin and piano with Alexis Golovine, and obtained a Master of Arts in Musicology at the University of Geneva. Several scholarships (Leenaards, Migros, Mosetti, Marescotti) gave him the opportunity to study at Leipzig Musikhochschule with Hans-Joachim Beyer, where he was awarded a Konzertdiplom with Distinction. In 2007 Benoit received a Diploma de Soliste from the Lausanne High School of Music with congratulations from the jury, having studied in the class of Gary Magby.

Benoit Capt received support from the Leenaards Foundation in 2006 to study Chamber Music repertoire with Phillip Moll in Leipzig, accompanied by pianist Sonja Lohmiller. Together they were awarded a Postgraduate Konzertdiplom in 2009 with congratulations from the jury, as well as winning several international competitions for Lied and French melodie (Gounod Special Prize Toulouse, Second Prize at the Weiden Max Reger Competition and First Prize at the Marmande Concours). In 2008, Benoit Capt won the Young Talent Prize from the Vaud Association of Friends of the OSR, which gave him the opportunity to record with pianist Todd Camburn.

At the Lausanne Opera Benoit Capt was a member of the ensemble L'Envol, where he made his debut as Ben in Menotti's Telephone in 2006- 2007 (on tour in the Opera Comique Paris and at Opera de Vichy, where he also interpreted the Chief of Police in Menotti's Amelia al ballo). He made very well received appearances as Papageno in Die Zauberflote (Lausanne), Bottom in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream(Theatre du Jorat), Schaunard in La Boheme, title role in Telemann's Pimpinone (on tour in Switzerland and France), Gamekeeper in The cunning little Vixen (Montpellier/Corum Berlioz) and As Paolo in Simon Boccane.

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Benoit Capt, baritone

In recent seasons, Benoît Capt has performed roles such as Papageno (Halmen/Fasiolis), Paolo Albiani in Simon Boccanegra (Bernard/Ranzani), Schaunard (Stratz /Beermann), Wagner in Faust (Poda/Ossonce), Herr Reich in Lustige Weiber (Hermann/Beermann), Marmont in L'Aiglon (Moshe-Leiser/Ossonce), the GameKeeper in The Cunning Little Fox (Signeyrole/Pillement), as well as the roles of the Geographer, of the Businessman and the Vaniteux in the creation of Michael Levinas the Little Prince, Lausanne, Lille, Geneva and Paris Châtelet (Baur/Van Beek). He also played these roles in the recording published by Claves in 2017.

At the concert, he was recently heard in Mahler/Berio's Furf Orchester-Lieder at the BFM in Geneva (Hervé Niquet), Dvorak's Stabat Mater in Toulouse (Bernard Têtu), the Christmas Oratorio of Saint-Saens at the Victoria Hall in Geneva (Steve Dunn); In recent years, he has sung repertoires such as Mozart's Der Schauspieldirektor (Garcia-Alarcon, BFM of Geneva), Bach's Johannes- and Matthaus-Passionen (Bouvier, Lausanne and Payerne cathedrals), Franck Martin's Golgotha (Van Beek), Rossini's Stabat Mater (Perrenoud), Messiah Handel's (Dunn), and Brahms's Liebeslieder Walzer (Victoria Hall in Geneva).

In recital last season, he gave a program "Schumann and Brahms" accompanied by Eric Schneider (Association Lied et Mélodie, Geneva), a program "Heinrich Heine" for the Heim Foundation in Chambésy and a program "Verlaine and its musicians" for the Festival "The Fury of Reading" with pianist Xavier Dami; In recent seasons, two Russian programs (Moussorgsky, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky) with Alexei Golovin for the Russian UN Mission, as well as a "Gabriel Fauré" program and a Schwanengesang with pianist Phillip Moll.

Planned for 2018-2019: Papageno in Die Zauberflate at the Freiburg Opera (Mompart/Gendre), a recording of Jacques-Dalcroze's La Veillée with the Geneva Chamber Orchestra (Mayor), the Weihnachts- and Bach's Oster-Oratorien in Lausanne (Bouvier), a recital "Bestiaire" accompanied by Phillip Moll, and a Schubert recital accompanied by Xavier Dami.

After studying music writing and musicology in Geneva, Benoît Capt completed his singing training through several scholarships (Leenaards, Migros, Mosetti and Marescotti), first at the HEM in Geneva with Gilles Cachemaille, then at the Mendelssohn Conservatory in Leipzig, with Hans-Joachim Beyer (master of interpretation in opera) and Phillip Moll (master of interpretation in chamber music), and finally at the HEMU in Lausanne. Winner of several international competitions (Lyon, Marmande, Toulouse, Dortmund, Graz, Weiden), he was awarded the 2008 OsR Circle of Friends Award for recording a disc of melodies with pianist Todd Camburn. Since his debut at the Lausanne Opera in 2006 in Menotti's The Phone, he has performed many roles, such as Zuniga in Carmen, the armchair and the tree in Ravel's Child and the spells of Ravel, Papageno in Mozart's Die Zauberflate, the title role in Telemann's Pimpinone, the Duke in Gounod's Romeo and Juliet, Bottom in Britten's A Midsummernight's Dream, or Schaunard in Puccini's La Bohème, under the baton of conductors such as Theodor Guschlbauer, Stefano Ranzani, Jean-Yves Ossonce, Roberto Rizzi-Brignoli, Hervé Niquet, Cyril Diederich, Miguel Ortega, Arie van Beek, Diego Fasiolis. He performs regularly in concert and recital, and founded the Association Lied et Mélodie in Geneva.

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