FOUCHECOURT, JEAN-PAUL

The tenor Jean-Paul Fouchécourt has gained an international reputation with his portrayal of the title rôle in Rameau’s Platée, Arnalta in L’incoronazione di Poppea, the four servants in Les contes d’Hoffman and le Mari in Poulenc’s Les mamelles de Tirésias with the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, New York City Opera, the Edinburgh Festival and the Santa Fe Opera, among others.

He is one of today’s main exponents of the French Baroque repertoire, collaborating with such conductors as William Christie, Marc Minkowski, René Jacobs and Christophe Rousset, and is noted for his rare and beautiful haute-contre tenor voice. He has also performed with such companies and orchestras as the Paris Opéra Bastille, Netherlands Opera, Zurich Opera, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, London and Berlin Philharmonics, Boston Symphony and the BBC Proms in London, and has made more than eighty recordings for which he has received numerous awards and extraordinary praise.

Jean-Paul Fouchécourt regularly sings with Opera Lafayette, with whom he has recorded Gluck’s Orphée et Euridice (Naxos 8.660185–86 released in 2005) and selections from Rameau operas (Naxos 8.557993), which Naxos released internationally in September 2007.

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GLUCK: Orphee et Euridice	8.660185-86
MONTEVERDI, C.: L'incoronazione di Poppea (DNO, 1994) (NTSC)	OA0925D
MONTEVERDI: Opera Box Set (NTSC)	OA0972BD
MUSICAL JOURNEY (A) - TUSCANY: A Musical Tour of the Region's Past and Present (NTSC)	2.110520
OFFENBACH, J.: Orphee aux enfers (Lyon Opera, 1997) (NTSC)	107105
OFFENBACH: Hommage a Offenbach (PAL)	DV-BOXMINKOFF
OFFENBACH: Orphee aux Enfers (Lyon Opera, 1997) (PAL)	DV-OPOAE
RAMEAU: Operatic Arias for Haute-contre	8.557993
REBEL, F. / FRANCOEUR, F.: Zelindor, Roi des Sylphes [Opera] / Le Trophee Suite (Fouchecourt, H.G. Murphy, Opera Lafayette, R. Brown)	8.660224