Cyril Auvity
Tenor
The French tenor Cyril Auvity made his debut at a young age at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, as Telemaco in Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria under William Christie. Since then, he has performed regularly at renowned venues such as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the MusikTheater an der Wien, the Opéra Comique and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and at international festivals such as those of Aldeburgh and Lucerne, the Munich Opera Festival and the Salzburg Festival.
He has worked with directors such as Calixto Bieto, Robert Carsen and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and with conductors including Ivor Bolton, Ottavio Dantone, Leonardo García Alarcón, Emmanuelle Haïm, Hervé Niquet, Christophe Rousset and Jordi Savall.
Highlights of 2025/26 have included performances in Lully’s Armide under Vincent Dumestre in Paris, Toulouse and Versailles. He also returns to Salzburg with Christina Pluhar and appears in Dijon with Les Épopées under Stéphane Fuget in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo.
His regular collaborations with William Christie have included performances as Telemaco at the Teatro Real in Madrid, roles in Lully’s Atys, Campra’s Les Fêtes Vénitiennes and Charpentier’s Les Arts Florissants and David et Jonathas, Tespis and Mercure in Rameau’s Platée and the title role of Rameau’s Pygmalion.
He has also sung Pygmalion at the Théâtre du Châtelet and in Nancy, Platée at the Stuttgart State Opera, Destouches’s Callirhoé in Montpellier and Gounod’s Le Medecin malgré lui on tour to Spain. Further repertory includes Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Basilio (Le nozze di Figaro), Carlos (Les Indes galantes), and roles in Marin Marais’ Alcyone, Charpentier’s Actéon and Médée, Purcell’s The Fairy Queen and Dido and Aeneas, Cavalli’s La Calisto and Handel’s Partenope.
His discography includes recordings of Lully’s Bellérophon and Amadis with Les Talens Lyrique and the album Teatro d’Amore with L’Arpeggiata.
He founded the ensemble L’Yriade, with which he has released three recordings of cantatas: Orphée, Barbara ninfa ingrata and Stances du Cid, which was awarded the Diapason d’Or.
Cyril Auvity was born in Montluçon, and studied physics at the Université de Lille and singing at the Conservatoire de Lille. In 1999 he won the Concours International de Chant in Clermont-Ferrand.