
(c) Arnaud Hussenot
Sébastien DROY - Tenor
After studying Musicology at the Sorbonne University, Sébastien Droy entered the Paris National Conservatory in the class of Mireille Alcantara and graduated with distinctions in 2003.
A very stylish Mozartian, he sang Arbace and Idamante from Idomeneo (Metz, Massy, Strasbourg, Lyon), Ottavio from Don Giovanni (Tours, Monte-Carlo, Antibes), Ferrando from Cosí fan Tutte (Tours, Saint-Etienne, Beaune, Strasbourg, Angers, Antwerp, Ghent), Belmonte from Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Saint-Etienne, Metz), Tamino from Die Zauberflöte (Saint-Etienne, Marseille, Metz, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Murten) and Agenore from Il Re Pastore (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Innsbrück).
In France and Europe, he sang numerous roles from the Baroque period to the 20th century: Calisis from Les Boréades by Rameau (Madrid, Versailles, Dijon), Adonis from Vénus et Adonis by Desmarest (Nancy), Pylade from Iphigénie en Tauride (Tours, Angers), Artémidore and Le Chevalier Danois from Armide by Gluck (Amsterdam), Tom Jones in the eponym opera by Philidor (Lausanne), Il Conte Almaviva from Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Nancy, Tours, Rennes, Toulon, Metz), Pâris from La Belle Hélène (Toulouse, Lausanne, Nantes, Bordeaux, Strasbourg), Fritz from La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein (Liège), Franz from Die Rheinnixen by Offenbach (Tours), Orphée from Orphée et Eurydice (Nancy, Montpellier, Nantes), Alfred from Die Fledermaus (Toulouse), Prince Sou-Chong from Das Land des Lächelns (Tours, Avignon), Bénédict from Béatrice et Bénédict (Brussels), Andreloun from Mireille (Paris Opera), Philémon from Philémon et Baucis by Gounod (Tours), Tybalt from Roméo et Juliette (Amsterdam), Lensky from Evgeny Onegin (Tours), Il Conte Almaviva from Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Tel-Aviv), Fenton from Falstaff (Tours, Montpellier), Cassio from Otello (Marseille, Saint-Etienne), Alfredo from La Traviata (Tours), Nadir from Les Pêcheurs de Perles (Bordeaux), Le Chevalier de la Force from Dialogues des Carmélites (Avignon), Don José from Carmen's Tragedy by Peter Brook (Compiègne and in a touring production in France), Tom Rakewell from The Rake's Progress (Nancy). He recently debuted the role of Ernesto from Don Pasquale (Opéra de Tours), Ecclitico from Il Mondo della Luna (Metz), Don Gasparo from La Favorite and L'Aumônier from Dialogues des Carmélites (Bordeaux) and Narraboth from Salomé (Metz).
In the concert field, he sang Bach’s B Mass, Saint John’s Passion, Saint Matthew's Passion, Buxtehude and Telemann Cantatas, Haendel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem and C Mass, Dvorak’s D Mass, Schumann’s E flat Mass, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Stabat Mater and Messa di Gloria, Martini's Requiem, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Berlioz’s L'Enfance du Christ, Messe Solennelle, La Damnation de Faust and La Grande Messe des Morts, Britten’s Illuminations. He sang in Shell Shock - A War Requiem by Nicholas Lens at the Paris Philharmonie for the centenary commemorations of WW1, and took part in the creation of Le Château des Coeurs after Flaubert, on a music by Berlioz at the Côte-Saint-André Festival. He also sang Le Déluge by Saint-Saëns, Hulda by César Frank and the Verdi Requiem (Teresin version).
He sang under the baton of such conductors as Kurt Masur, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Michel Plasson, Marc Minkowski, Christophe Rousset, Jérémie Rhorer, Hervé Niquet, François-Xavier Roth, Jean-Claude Malgoire, John Nelson, Serge Baudo, Michel Corboz, Iván Fischer, Ivor Bolton…
He regularly performs in recitals (melodies and Lied) and took part in many recordings.
His engagements for season 2024-2025 include the part of The Narrator from L'Enfance du Christ by Berlioz in Clermont-Ferrand and Vichy, as well as a commemoration concert for Bizet in Bougival.
Iphigénie en Tauride by Gluck
Aria of Pylade : "Unis dès la plus tendre enfance..."
Angers-Nantes Opéra - October 2020
Don Pasquale by Donizetti
Aria of Ernesto: "Povero Ernesto..."
Opéra de Tours - 2021
Béatrice et Bénédict by Berlioz
Aria of Bénédict : "Ah! Je vais l'aimer..."
La Monnaie / De Munt - 2016