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Jean DELESCLUSE |
Jean Delescluse was born in Lyon. He initially graduated from a business school, following in a parallel way his musical studies (piano and voice) at the Lyon's Conservatoire. He started as a financial auditor in the Opéra de Lyon where he was soon noticed and solicited to enter the Atelier Lyrique [Lyrical Workshop]. For five years running he successively performed on this stage Alfred (die Fledermaus), Flout (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Basilio (Le Nozze di Figaro), Tamino in the French version. He performed at that time under the direction of Kent Nagano, John Nelson, Stuart Bedford, Paolo Olmi, Claire Gibault.
He has since then illustrated himself as a "Spieltenor"
both in France and abroad in an number of opera productions : he was host
of the Aix-en-Provence and Berlioz Festivals and sang on such renowned
stages as Nice, Lyon, Rennes, Saint-Etienne, Bordeaux, Paris opera houses
(Châtelet and Opéra Comique). He has also regularly performed
for the Orchestre National d'Ile de
France, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Orchestre National de Metz,
the Leipzig Radio Orchestra, The Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal,
les Musiciens du Louvre, les Arts Florissants ... under the direction
of famous conductors such as Marc Minkowski, Jacques Mercier, Charles
Dutoit, Serge Baudo, Jean-Claude Casadesus, William Christie, Michel Plasson
...
Jean Delescluse has besides extensively dedicated himself to baroque and classical repertoires ; he was the Saint-Matthew Passion's evangelist at Leipzig Gewandhaus as well as Berlin and Halle , the narrator of l'Enfance du Christ in Hamburg under the direction of Christoph Eschenbach. He sang with Gérard Lesne's Seminario Musicale and with Jean-Christophe Frisch's Ensemble des Lumières XVIII-21. Furthermore he has performed classical oratorios in France, Switzlerland and Germany.
On the other hand Jean Delescluse has had an extremely close relationship with French mélodie and German Lied, working particuliarly with his friend and distinguished accompanist Alexandre Tharaud.
Jean Delescluse was also the creator of several thematic recitals in association with actors and producers. He lent his voice to Eric Satie, Max Jacob, Claude Debussy, Raymond Queneau at the French National Library, at the Bruxelles Philharmonie and in Estonia. He has recently performed Die Schöne Magelone (Brahms) with narrator or Schumann and Brahms vocal quartets at the Festival de L'Empéri, along with Michel Dalberto and Eric Lesage.
Among his plans for this coming year are : Les Nuits d'été at Grenoble Museum, a Satie recital with Alexandre Tharaud in Brussels, l'Heure Espagnole with the Orchestre National de Lorraine, the Seven deadly Sins (Kurt Weill) with the Orchestre National de Lille, Marcello Psalms at the Ambronay Festival with Jean-Christophe Frisch, L'Enfance du Christ with Jean-Claude Malgoire, Berlioz Messe.