BOUTTE, TONY

Tony Boutté, tenor, enjoys a growing career as a performer of music from the Baroque to the present. He has appeared with three distinguished European conductors, William Christie of Les Arts Florissants, Christophe Rousset of Les Talens Lyriques and Hervé Niquet of Concert Spirituel. He has sung with many of North America’s leading ensembles, including Opera Lafayette, New York Collegium, Washington Bach Consort, Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Tafelmusik. Boutté has also performed at the Salzburg Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Santa Fe Opera, Bard Festival, Skylight Opera Theater, Schleswig-Holstein Festival and Tage Alte Muzik Regensberg. He has created rôles in six world premières, including Michael Gordon’s Chaos at The Kitchen (New York City). Tony Boutté has recorded Bach’s St John Passion with the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra, Carbon Copy Buildingwith Bang on a Can and has sung in documentaries for the BBC and PBS. Other recordings include one with Julianne Baird of music from the Jane Austen Songbook, and music by Purcell with Brandywine Baroque. His appearances include a Canadian tour with Les Violons du Roy, Handel’s Acis and Galatea in Ithaca, and rôles in Lully’s Acis et Galatée and Sacchini’s Oedipe à Colone (Naxos 8.660196-97)with Opera Lafayette.

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LULLY, J.: Armide (Opera Lafayette, 2007)	8.660209-10
SACCHINI: Oedipe a Colone	8.660196-97