Since his international breakthrough, the Belgian baritone Lionel Lhote has performed at many leading opera houses and renowned festivals, including the Paris Opéra, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, La Monnaie in Brussels, the Frankfurt Opera, the Stuttgart State Opera, the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, the Chorégies d’Orange festival, the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, the Opéra Grand Avignon, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and the opera houses of Nice and Marseille.
He began his musical training with his father at the Académie de Musique in Frameries, and continued his studies at the conservatory in Mons with Marcel Vanaud and Jacques Legrand, and at the Brussels Conservatory. In 2004 he was a prize-winner in the prestigious Concours Reine Elisabeth in Brussels.
Lionel Lhote has worked with conductors including Philippe Auguin, Adam Fischer, Patrick Fournillier, Alain Guingal, René Jacobs, Emmanuel Joel-Hornak, Emmanuel Krivine, Marc Minkowski and Kazushi Ono, and with directors such as Achim Freyer, Karl-Ernst and Ursel Herrmann, Guy Joosten, Dieter Kaegi, David McVicar, Jonathan Miller, Laurent Pelly, Mariusz Treliński and Keith Warner.
Recent highlights have included the title roles of Saint-Saëns’ Henry VIII at La Monnaie and Thomas’ Hamlet in Liège, Nilakantha in Delibes’ Lakmé in Monte Carlo, Don Andrès de Ribeira (La Périchole) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Pandolfe in Massenet’s Cendrillon at the Paris Opéra.
