The tenor Rodolphe Briand — an actor who sings as well as a singer who acts — performs in plays, musicals and operas. His eclectic career has taken him to many prestigious opera houses, including the Teatro Real in Madrid, La Scala, Milan, the Opéra national and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg and the Opéra de Marseille.
His favourite roles include Guillot de Morfontaine (Manon), the four servants in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Remendado (Carmen), Bardolfo (Falstaff), Schmidt (Werther), Spoletta (Tosca) and Mime (Das Rheingold). Rodolphe Briand also especially enjoys the world of opéra bouffe and operetta, including roles such as Offenbach’s Ménélas (La Belle Hélène), John Styx (Orphée aux enfers) and Bababeck (Barkouf), and also Bilou in Francis Lopez’s Le Chanteur de Mexico.
He has performed under the baton of conductors such as Iván Fischer, Philippe Jordan, Pinchas Steinberg und Susanna Mälkki and has worked with many renowned directors, among them Calixto Bieito, Robert Carsen, Jérôme Deschamps, Jean-Louis Grinda, Olivier Py, Laurent Pelly, Mariame Clément and Barrie Kosky.
In the 2025/26 season, prior to his Salzburg debut as Zefirino (Il viaggio a Reims) at the Whitsun Festival, Rodolphe Briand has appeared in productions including Offenbach’s Robinson Crusoé at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Orphée aux enfers at the Opéra de Tours and Dialogues des Carmélites at the Opéra de Lausanne. In July 2026 he sang Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte) at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.
