Geoffroy Buffière

The French bass Geoffroy Buffière regularly appears on French and international stages, in repertory ranging from polyphonic compositions of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance with the Ensemble Clément Janequin under Dominique Visse and the Huelgas Ensemble under Paul Van Nevel to world premieres with the Ensemble intercontemporain under Susanna Mälkki.

Highlights of 2024/25 have included Doctor Grenvil (La traviata) at the Opéra Grand Avignon, Messager’s Fortunio at the Opéra de Lausanne and Félix Fourdrain’s Les Contes de Perrault on tour with Les Frivolités Parisiennes, along with his return to the Opéra Royal de Versailles in Charpentier’s David et Jonathas.

As a sought-after interpreter of Baroque repertory, he has worked with ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants, Correspondances, Le Concert Spirituel, Diabolus in Musica, I Gemelli, Le Poème Harmonique, Pygmalion, La Rêveuse and Stradivaria and with Rinaldo Alessandrini, William Christie, Vincent Dumestre, Emmanuelle Haïm, Hervé Niquet and Masaaki Suzuki.

His operatic repertory includes Horatio (Hamlet) at the Opéra Comique, Colline (La bohème) in Luxembourg, Die Zauberflöte at the Dutch National Opera, Theater Basel and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Campra’s Les Fêtes vénitiennes in Toulouse and New York, Grétry’s Richard Coeur de Lion in Versailles and Antonio Draghi’s Il terremoto at the Festival d’Ambronay. He sang in Zad Moultaka’s Hémon, in Nino Rota’s Aladin et la lampe merveilleuse and in Guillaume Connesson’s Les Bains macabres at the Théâtre de l’Athénée in Paris and in 2023 appeared in the world premiere of Simon Steen-Andersen’s Don Giovanni aux Enfers at the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg and in further performances at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen.

In concert he has sung in Handel’s Israel in Egypt, Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ, Telemann’s Brockes-Passion and Weill’s Die sieben Todsünden at the Salle Pleyel and in Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine under Raphaël Pichon at the BBC Proms.

His CD recordings include Lully’s Alceste with Les Épopées under Stéphane Fuget.

Geoffroy Buffière studied at the Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris and the Conservatoire de Paris, and underwent further training at the CNIPAL in Marseille and the Académie de l’Opéra-Comique.