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Boris GRAPPE |
Born in Besançon, France, Boris Grappe studied singing with Margreet Honig at the Conservatoire de Lyon, and with Walter Moore at the Hochschule für Musik of Vienna. He followed as well the masterclasses of Walter Berry, Thomas Hampson and Gabriel Bacquier.
He’s been performing since 2001 over Europa, with conductors such as William Christie, Marc Minkowski, Christophe Rousset, Alberto Zedda, Antonio Florio, Josep Pons, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Giuseppe Grazioli or Alexander Briger.
Mr Grappe first performed in the baroque repertoire, singing the title-role in Lully’s Cadmus et Hermione at the Académie d’Ambronay, at the théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse and in Versailles. He also sang Tancredi in Monteverdi’s Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda at in La Monnaie in Brussel, before working with Les Arts Florissants as Pan in Lully’s Les Divertissements de Versailles at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, at the Barbican Center in London, at the Opera of Leipzig and at the Musikverein in Vienna (recording Erato/Warner-classics).
He also sang the role of Blansac (La Scala di Seta) at the Rossini Festival in Bad-Wildbad, Fluth in Nicolaï’s Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor at the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn in Vienna, and Falke (Die Fledermaus) at the Wiener Kammeroper. He sang then Gregorio (Roméo et Juliette) in Nice, the Musiklehrer (Ariadne auf Naxos) in Avignon, before making his debut at the Aix-en-Provence Festival as Harasta in Janacek’s Cunning little Vixen.
He performed in Rennes as Guglielmo (Cosi fan tutte), Frédéric (Lakmé) and Maximilian (Candide), before being Don Alvaro (Il Viaggio a Reims) at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro followed by the Théâtre du Châtelet in La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein by Offenbach. He sings Danilo” The Merry Widow” at the Paris Opera Comique, Guglielmo in Rouen
2007/08: Morales in Carmen at the Châtelet and at the San Carlo in Naples, Monsieur de Pouceaugnac de F.Martin, Lausanne and “Le Vin Herbé” at the Ruhr Trienale , and later at the Opera Lyon; Danilo in Klagenfurt…
Boris Grape is engaged at the Theatre Mannheim for three seasons 2007/2010 singing roles like Konrad Nachtigal (Meistersinger) Harlekin (Ariadne auf Naxos), Graf Eberbach (Der Wildschütz), Schaunard, Almaviva , Don Giovanni etc…
Boris Grappe appeared also in recital and concert in places such like
the Auditorium in Lyon, the Centro di Musica Antica in Napoli, at the
Liceu in Salamanca, at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussel, and at the
Cité de la Musique in Paris.