Bernard Deletré


Bernard Deletré is a French operatic bass-baritone.

Life

After studying flute and singing in the North of France, followed by a first prize in singing at the Conservatoire de Paris, Deletré performed with the Groupe Vocal de France before embarking on a career as a soloist. He also performs contemporary music, with the Atelier Lyrique du Rhin or the Péniche Opéra.
He has sung Monteverdi, Purcell, Cesti, Cavalli, Lully, Charpentier, Rameau, Handel or Mozart, and also Verdi, Bellini, Massenet, Offenbach, Janáček. Deletré has performed in the United States and Canada, and also collaborates with the Dutch national company Reisopera and the Grand Théâtre de Genève. Deletré worked extensively in the 1980s and 1990s with the ensemble of Baroque music Les Arts Florissants, led by William Christie.
He has participated in more than forty radio and CD recordings for Erato, EMI France, Adda, Opus 111, Naxos, Harmonia Mundi labels...
He sings in both in the field of Baroque music and in the traditional opera repertoire: Giorgio in Bellini's I puritani in Nantes, Schlemil in Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann in Geneva directed by Olivier Py, Dikoï in Janáček's Káťa Kabanová in Geneva, Bartolo in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in Tourcoing and Orléans, the priest in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen in Geneva, Arkel in Pelléas and Mélisande on tour in the Netherlands. In 2005, he wrote, directed, conducted and performed the show La Fontaine Incognito to music by Isabelle Aboulker for the Grand Théâtre de Limoges.
He was heard in Massenet's Hérodiade and Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles at the Dorset Opera Festival, Massenet's Manon on tour in the Netherlands, Cherubini's Médée on tour in the Netherlands, Massenet's Don Quichotte and Gounod's Roméo et Juliette in Limoges, Stravinsky's Pulcinella with the Orchestre national de Lille, a revival of The Tales of Hoffmann in Geneva, La Veuve et le Grillon, a work by Daniel Soulier,, The Love for Three Oranges in Dijon and Limoges, Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in Tourcoing and the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Busoni's Turandot Dijon, revival of Lully's Atys in Paris, Caen, Bordeaux, Versailles and New-York, Janáček's Jenůfa in Rennes and Limoges.
Among other projects, Deletré continues his collaboration with the American company Opera Lafayette: in the staging for Félicien David's opera Lalla-Roukh in Washington and New York in January 2013, in the role of Don Alfonso in Cosi fan Tutte'' in October 2013.

Selected discography

Operas