GM Art&Music is delighted to welcome Soprano Cassandre Berthon and baritone Ludovic Tézier for Worldwide General Management.
Cassandre Berthon studied violin, chamber music, and music theory at the Conservatoire of Marseille. She began studying voice in 1990 with Camille Maurane. She was awarded the Chabrier-Poulenc Prize at the French Music Competition and, in 1994, received the Young Hope Prize at the UFAM Competition, presided over by Dame Joan Sutherland. She made her stage debut in 1996 at the Frankfurt Opera in the role of Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro. Since then, she has performed on major international opera stages, including the Opéra National de Paris, Opéra Comique, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Capitole de Toulouse, Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, Opéra National du Rhin, and the opera houses of Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Antwerp, Ghent, Liège, Lausanne, Karlsruhe, Halle, Cologne, Düsseldorf, the Royal Opera House in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Teatro Real in Madrid, the San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, and at the festivals of Aix-en-Provence and Salzburg, among others. Her roles have included Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Susanna (The Marriage of Figaro), Gilda (Rigoletto), Octavia (Cléopâtre by Massenet), Henriette of France (I Puritani), the title roles in Iphigénie en Aulide (Strasbourg), Véronique(Nancy), L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, and Massenet’s Cendrillon (Strasbourg, New York City Opera), and again Gilda in Rigoletto.
French baritone Ludovic Tézier was born in Marseilles and studied at the Centre National d’Artistes Lyriques (CNIPAL) and at Paris Opéra’s École d’Art lyrique. In 1998 he won Operalia. He began his career with Opéra de Lyon, specializing in Mozart and bel canto roles, and has since sung for major international companies, including the Metropolitan Opera, New York, La Scala, Milan, Bavarian State Opera, Vienna State Opera, Teatro Real, Madrid, Liceu, Barcelona, Opéra de Marseille, Paris Opéra, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse and the Aix-en-Provence and Salzburg festivals. His current repertory includes Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Don Giovanni, Sir Riccardo Forth (I puritani), Valdeburgo (La straniera), Alphonse XI (La Favorite), Don Carlo (Ernani), Macbeth, Rigoletto, Count di Luna (Il trovatore), Giorgio Germont (La traviata), Renato (Un ballo in maschera), Don Carlo di Vargas (La forza del destino), Posa (Don Carlo), Simon Boccanegra, Amonasro (Aida), Ford (Falstaff), Wolfram von Eschenbach (Tannhäuser), Valentin (Faust), Eugene Onegin and Scarpia (Tosca).
Tézier performs widely in concert and has given recitals at venues including the Opéra national du Rhin, the Salle Pleyel and Vienna State Opera. He is a Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres.