The French countertenor Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian is one of the most exciting young singing talents of our time, and regularly appears at prestigious opera houses, concert halls and festivals throughout Europe.
Highlights of the 2024/25 season include(d) Ulisse in Porpora’s Polifemo at the Opéra de Lille and the Opéra Royal de Versailles, and Endimione in Cavalli’s La Calisto at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. On the concert platform he sang in Tamerlano with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra under René Jacobs, and in Domènec Terradellas’s La Merope with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, and performed with Le Poème Harmonique and Café Zimmermann.
In 2023/24 he sang Ottone (L’incoronazione di Poppea) in Rennes and Cologne and in Polifemo at the Opéra national du Rhin under Emmanuelle Haïm. He gave a Vivaldi recital with Café Zimmermann, took on the title role of Scarlatti’s Il Mitridate Eupatore at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, sang in Handel’s Messiah with the chamber choir Accentus under Laurence Equilbey at La Seine Musicale, the Opéra national du Capitole Toulouse and the Palau de la Música Catalana, gave a Bach recital at Bozar in Bussels and sang in the St Matthew Passion at the Opéra de Rennes.
Previous appearances have included Oberon (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) at the Opéra de Rouen, Athamas (Semele) at the Opéra de Lille, the title role of Giulio Cesare at the Festival international d’opéra baroque in Beaune, Alessandro (Tolomeo) with il Pomo d’Oro, Farnace (Mitridate, re di Ponto) at the Berlin State Opera and the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, La divisione del mondo in Versailles, Rodelinda with Le Concert d’Astrée and Emmanuelle Haïm, Rinaldo at the Opéra de Rennes, Scarlatti’s Cain, overo Il primo omicidio under Philippe Jaroussky at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival and his debuts in Ariodante at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre and in La Nuit des rois at the Comédie-Française.
In 2022 he released CD recordings of Purcell’s Royal Odes with Le Banquet Céleste on the Alpha label and Handel’s Theodora with Joyce DiDonato, Lisette Oropesa, Michael Spyres and il Pomo d’Oro under Maxim Emelyanychev for Erato.
Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian is a former HSBC Révélation award-winner of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and a graduate of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles and the Paris Conservatoire.
