
Joé BERTILI - Bass
Joé Bertili graduated from the Conservatoire in Lyon and the Haute École de Musique in Geneva. He was a finalist at the « Voix des Outre-Mer » competition at the Paris Opera in 2020.
On stage, he sang Leporello from Don Giovanni (Escales Lyriques Festival at the Île d’Yeu), Calchas from La Belle Hélène (Dijon), Haly from L’Italiana in Algeri (Toulon), Le Duc de Vérone from Roméo et Juliette and Noah from Noah’s Flood by Britten (Geneva Chamber Orchestra), Balthazar from Amahl et les visiteurs du soir (Lausanne), Ogier from Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde by Hervé (Avignon, Lausanne), Bartolo from Le Nozze di Figaro (Monthey), Lindorf then Crespel from Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Filao Festival in La Martinique then in La Réunion), Porgy from Porgy and Bess in Bordeaux, one of the Deputati Fiamminghi from Don Carlos (five-act French version) and Frère Sylvestre from Saint-François d’Assise by Messiaen in Geneva. He took part in the world premiere of GRAALS (Birraux/Jullierat after Purcell) in Mézières, Switzerland. He sang Angelotti from Tosca in Metz, Il Marchese d'Obigny from La Traviata in Dijon, Zaretsky from Evgeny Onegin in Nancy and Calchas from La Belle Hélène in Toulon.
He took part in several concerts (Amphithéâtre of the Paris Opera, Guadeloupe), singing the solo bass part in the Missa Brevis by Mozart and Schubert (La Clé des Chants), the Paukenmesse by Haydn (Vandoeuvres), Mozart Requiem (Montperreux), he sang and recorded the role of Ramiro from La Sorcière by Camille Erlanger at the Victoria Hall in Geneva.
He sang the role of Schaunard in La Bohème 2050, a dystopian feature-length musical film based on Puccini's La Bohème for France Télévisions.
During season 2025-2026, he sings the Sprecher in Die Zauberflöte in Saint-Etienne, Porgy from Porgy and Bess at La Seine Musicale in Paris and he takes over this role with the Voix d'Outre-Mer at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.
Roméo et Juliette / Gounod
Le Duc de Vérone : "Toujours du sang..."
Orchestre de chambre de Genève - January 2023
Porgy and Bess / Gershwin
Porgy : "I got plenty o' nuttin'..."
Opéra national de Bordeaux - 2023

