
Marc SCOFFONI - Baritone
Marc Scoffoni graduated from the National Conservatory in Paris and the Guildhall School of Music in London. Between 2011 and 2013, he was a member of the « Young Ensemble » at the Grand-Théâtre in Geneva.
On stage, he sang such roles as Papageno from Die Zauberflöte, Guglielmo from Cosí fan tutte, Masetto and Don Giovanni, Nardo from La Finta Giardiniera, Figaro from Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Raimbaud from Le Comte Ory, Malatesta from Don Pasquale, Dandini from La Cenerentola, Belcore from L'Elisir d'Amore, Germont from La Traviata, Fléville, Fouquier-Tinville and Roucher from Andrea Chénier, Michonnet from Adriana Lecouvreur, Alfio from Cavalleria Rusticana, Sharpless from Madama Butterfly, Rambaldo from La Rondine and Il Sagrestano from Tosca.
In the French repertoire, he performed as Leuthold from Guillaume Tell, Escamillo from Carmen, Frédéric from Lakmé, Valentin from Faust by Gounod, Claudio from Béatrice et Bénédict, Albert and Le Bailli from Werther, Schlémil and Hermann from Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Brétigny from Manon, Mercutio from Roméo et Juliette, the Clock and the Cat from L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, Jahel from Le Roi d’Ys, Clavaroche from Fortunio, Sganarelle from Le Médecin Malgré Lui, Pausanias from Une Education Manquée, Roger from Ciboulette, Robert from La Fille du Tambour Major, Jupiter from Orphée aux Enfers, Gaspard from Das Land des Lächelns (French version), Le Vice-Roi from La Périchole, Gaveston from La Dame Blanche, Le Baron de Gondremarck from La Vie Parisienne, Jim Cocks from Robinson Crusoé, Le Directeur et Le Gendarme from Les Mamelles de Tirérias.
He was also heard in the roles of Bottom from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Hunter and The Gamekeeper from Rusalka and Starek from Jenufa.
Also interested in the music from the 20th century and contemporary, he sang in Juliette ou la clé des songes by Martinu, Les Caprices De Marianne and Tistou Les Pouces Verts by Henri Sauguet, Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Philippe Fénelon, L'Annonce faite à Marie by Philippe Leroux and Les Pêcheurs de la Lune by Howard Moody.
In the concert field, he sang Mathisen from Le Prophète by Meyerbeer with the Geneva Chamber Orchestra (also at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées). He was heard with the Orchestre National d'Île-de-France, the Paris Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Capitole in Toulouse, Saint-Etienne, Marseille, the UNESCO Orchestra, The Orchestra of Brittany... in a repertoire such as the Fauré Requiem, Brahms' Deutsches Requiem, the Carmina Burana, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, The Silence of the Sea by Tomasi, The Scottish, Irish and Welsh songs by Beethoven, La Vierge by Massenet.
This season, he sings Le Bailli from Werther in Rennes, Caen, Angers and Nantes, Guglielmo from Le Villi in Marseille, Sulpice from La Fille du Régiment at the Royal Opera in Versailles, The Father from Beauty and the Beast by Philip Glass at the Théâtre du Châtelet and Capulet from Roméo et Juliette in Saint-Etienne. In the concert field, he will be Palémon from Thaïs with the Geneva Chamber Orchestra.
"L'Elisir d'Amore" - Belcore : "Come paride vezzoso..."
Coproduction Angers-Nantes Opéra / Opéra de Rennes
