Julien Henric
The tenor Julien Henric studied acting and opera singing in his home city of Lyon. In 2018 he was recognized as an exciting new singer (Révélation Lyrique) by the French organization Adami and won three prizes in the opera competition Jeunes Espoirs Raymond Duffaut in Avignon. In 2019 he won second prize and the song prize at the Symphonies d’automne International Singing Competition in Mâcon. After graduating, he spent the 2020/21 and 2021/22 seasons as a member of the Jeune Ensemble at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. At the 2022 Marmande International Singing Competition he won first prize in the French Song category and third prize in the Opera category.
His engagements to date have included Flavio (Norma) at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and the Philharmonies of Cologne and Hamburg, Marcellus (Hamlet) at the Paris Opéra, Faust in Lili Boulanger’s cantata Faust et Hélène at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, Borsa (Rigoletto) and Tybalt (Roméo et Juliette) at the Opéra de Rouen, Alfredo (La traviata) at the summer festival Nuits Lyriques de Marmande and Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) at the Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Opéra National de Bordeaux, the Opéra Royal de Versailles and the Ravinia Festival. He has also sung Ferrando (Così fan tutte) at the Liceu. Other venues at which he has appeared include the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris.
Julien Henric has performed under renowned conductors such as Marc Minkowski, Stefano Montanari, Antonino Fogliani, Riccardo Minasi and Pierre Dumoussaud, and worked with directors including Calixto Bieto, Mariame Clément, Ulrich Rasche, Daniel Kramer and Krzysztof Warlikowski.
In the 2023/24 season Julien Henric has made several important debuts: at the Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo as Arturo in the French version of Lucia di Lammermoor, at the Opéra Grand Avignon as Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), at the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg as Heurtal in Magnard’s Guercoeur, at the Olympia Municipal Music Theatre ‘Maria Callas’ in Athens as Ulysse in Fauré’s Pénélope, at the Opéra de Saint-Étienne in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, at the Opéra National de Montpellier in a gala concert in honour of Maria Callas and at the Festival d’Auvers-sur-Oise in Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle. He also returned to the Paris Opéra as Lucas in Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel and to the Grand Théâtre de Genève as Count of Lerma / Herold (Don Carlos) and Sir Hervey (Anna Bolena).