Philippe-Nicolas Martin

The baritone Philippe-Nicolas Martin studied musicology, before going on to train as an opera singer at the CNIPAL in Marseille.

His past engagements have included Albert (Werther) and Landry in Messager’s Fortunio in Nancy; Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) in Bulgaria and Beirut; Belcore (L’elisir d’amore) in Malta, Nice, Avignon and at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris; Marcello (La bohème) in Avignon; Harlequin (Ariadne auf Naxos) and Junius (The Rape of Lucretia) in Toulouse; Don Fernando (Fidelio) and Taddeo (L’italiana in Algeri) in Rennes; Papageno (Die Zauberflöte) for Opéra en Plein Air in Nancy; Grandfather Clock and Cat (L’Enfant et les sortilèges) in Limoges, Lille and in a production of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in Bahrain; Herald (Lohengrin) in Angers, Nantes and Saint-Étienne; Octave in Sauguet’s Les Caprices de Marianne and Forester (The Cunning Little Vixen) on tours in France; Sganarelle in Gounod’s Le Médecin malgré lui and Zurga (Les Pêcheurs de perles) in Saint-Étienne; Prince of Mantua in Offenbach’s Fantasio in Rouen; Silvano (Un ballo in maschera) in Nancy and Luxembourg; Father in Turnage’s Coraline in Lille; Landry (Fortunio) at the Opéra Comique in Paris; Mercutio (Roméo et Juliette) in Bordeaux, at the Opéra Comique, in Rouen and in Bern; Splendiano in Bizet’s Djamileh in Tours and Tourcoing and for a recording; Second Nazarene (Salome) at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence; Oreste (Iphigénie en Tauride) in Athens; Pierre de Ruys in Erlanger’s L’Aube rouge at the Wexford Festival Opera and Silvio (Pagliacci) in Limoges.

His appearances in Baroque operatic repertory include Rameau’s Platée and Naïs in Budapest, Rameau’s Le Temple de la Gloire in San Francisco, La Belle-mère amoureuse — a parody of Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie — at the Centre de la musique baroque de Versailles, Campra’s L’Europe galante in Potsdam and Prague, Purcell’s The Fairy Queen at the Midsummer Festival in Hardelot and Lully’s Armide on tour with Le Concert Spirituel.

Philippe-Nicolas Martin has also taken part in performances of a series of seldom-heard and rediscovered operas, and is active as a concert singer.

Following his Salzburg Festival debut in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, his 2024/25 season appearances will include Ange Pitou in Lecocq’s La Fille de Madame Angot in Nice and Avignon, Landry (Fortunio) in Lausanne, Forester and Hunter (Rusalka) in Marseille and Zurga (Les Pêcheurs de perles) in Dijon.