David Tricou

The haute-contre voice of the French tenor David Tricou makes him a natural fit for Baroque repertory. Since 2008 he has performed regularly at renowned opera houses and at the festivals of Ambronay and Beaune, the Festival de Sablé, the Festival de La Chaise-Dieu, the Stuttgart Baroque Festival and the Music Festival Potsdam Sanssouci.

Highlights of 2025/26 have included Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo under Jordi Savall at the Opéra Grand Avignon, Raoul de Gardefeu in Offenbach’s La Vie parisienne at the Opéra Royal de Versailles, Dio in Conti’s La colpa originale with the Ensemble 1700, Charpentier’s David et Jonathas in Freiburg and Stuttgart and Lully’s Armide at Müpa Budapest and with Le Poème Harmonique under Vincent Dumestre in Paris, Versailles, Toulouse and Madrid.

Earlier highlights included Rameau’s Pygmalion and Anacréon on an international tour with William Christie, Cavalli’s L’Egisto at the Opéra Comique and the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg and Rossi’s Orfeo under Raphaël Pichon. His repertory also includes the title role of Zoroastre, Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Count Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), Dalayrac’s Adolphe et Clara, Méhul’s Stratonice, Campra’s Le Carnaval de Venise and John Blow’s Venus and Adonis. Concert performances have included works by Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Gounod, Martial Caillebotte and Orff.

He participated in the world premieres of Xavier Dayer’s chamber opera Contes de la lune vague après la pluie in Rouen and Paris in 2015 and Christian Carrara’s Voix d’Hébron / Voci da Hebron in Metz and Modena in 2024.

His discography includes Egidio Duni’s Les Deux Chasseurs / Le Peintre with the Orkester Nord under Martin Wahlberg (Aparté), Grands Motets with Ensemble Antiphona (Paraty) and Graun’s Adriano in Siria under Dorothee Oberlinger (Sony). In 2025 he released recordings of Charpentier’s Missa Assumpta est Maria with the Ensemble Marguerite Louise, Campra’s Requiem with Les Arts Florissants and Antonia Bembo’s rediscovered opera Ercole amante with Il Gusto Barroco under Jörg Halubek.

David Tricou was born in Montpellier and studied singing at the conservatory in his home city, before transferring to the Paris Conservatoire.