Paco Garcia

The tenor Paco Garcia began his musical training at an early age in the Maîtrise of Reims Cathedral. He went on to study with Alain Buet at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, graduating in 2017 with distinction. Prior to this he was active as a Baroque cellist, and early music has continued to play a central role in his career.

He works as a soloist with various ensembles, including Les Surprises under Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, with which group he has performed repertory including Bach’s St John Passion at the Festival d’Ambronay, and Le Poème Harmonique under Vincent Dumestre, with which he has sung the haute contre parts in Lully and Charpentier’s settings of the Te Deum at the Festival Ravel in Saint-Jean-de-Luz.

Paco Garcia‘s past engagements have also included Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte) at the Opéra national du Capitole in Toulouse, the title role in Giovanni Maria Pagliardi’s Caligula under Vincent Dumestre at the Philharmonie de Liège, Remendado (Carmen) at the Opéra Comique in Paris and Basilio (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Opéra Royal de Versailles and the Opéra National de Bordeaux.

Recently Paco Garcia sang two haute contre roles in a recording of Mademoiselle Duval’s opera Les Génies under Camille Delaforge, which was released in January 2024 on the Château de Versailles Spectacles label.

His projects following his Salzburg Festival debut as Nathanaël (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) will include the production Le Carnaval baroque under Vincent Dumestre at the Opéra Royal de Versailles and the Opéra de Dijon, First Priest and First Armed Man (Die Zauberflöte) at the Opéra de Rennes and the Angers Nantes Opéra, Giannino in Galuppi’s L’uomo femmina under Dumestre at the Teatro Real in Madrid, and Charpentier’s Leçons de ténèbres with the Ensemble Correspondances.