Mathias Vidal studied Musicology at the University of Nice and studied singing with teacher Christiane Patard. He graduated from the Paris Conservatory in 2003.

 

Praised for his qualities in the baroque repertoire, he took part in many operas by Monteverdi, Purcell, Rameau, Lully, Cavalli, Campra, Boismortier… In the French light-music repertoire, he sang in such productions as Orphée aux Enfers, La Vie Parisienne, La Périchole, Fra Diavolo, La Belle Hélène, La Veuve Joyeuse, Le Dilettante d'Avignon, Barbe-Bleue, Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde, La Fille de Madame Angot, L'Auberge du Cheval Blanc... His repertoire also includes Italian bel-canto roles such as Nemorino from L'Elisir d'Amore, Ernesto from Don Pasquale, Elvino from La Sonnambula, Almaviva from Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Ramiro from La Cenerentola and the title-role of Le Comte Ory. He also sings the French romantic repertoire together with the 20th century and contemporary pieces.

 

He is a regular guest at the Paris national Opera: Valère and Tacmas from Les Indes Galantes, Thespis from Platée and Der vierte Jude from Salomé, Monostatos from Die Zauberflöte (also in Bordeaux) and The Prince from Les Brigands by Offenbach.

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He was heard in the title-roles of Atys and Persée by Lully (Avignon, Tourcoing, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées), Abaris from Les Boréades (Karlsruhe, Oldenburg, Dijon), the title-role in Platée (Zürich, Versailles, Toulouse, Tokyo), Tamino from Die Zauberflöte (Avignon, Versailles), Ferrando from Così fan tutte and Nadir from Les Pêcheurs de Perles (Toulouse), Belmonte from Die Entführung aus dem Serail (French version in Versailles and Tours), Nemorino from L'Elisir d'Amore (Angers, Nantes and Rennes), Ernesto from Don Pasquale (Oldenburg), Aristée/Pluton from Orpheus in the Underworld (Komische Oper Berlin, Düsseldorf, Toulouse, Tours), as well as the title-roles in Pygmalion, Orlando Paladino, Orphée et Eurydice, Le Comte Ory, Cinq-Mars, Faust, Der Zwerg... He takes part in the touring production of Les Indes Galantes - De La Voix Des Âmes, a choreographed version of Rameau's opera (Leonardo García-Alarcón / Bintou Dembélé) at the Seine Musicale in Paris, the Teatro Real in Madrid, La Scala in Milano, and in the operas in São Paulo, Lyon and Bordeaux.

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He is very much in demand on the lyric stages in France as in the rest of Europe, Asia and the US. He regularly takes part in live and studio recordings in a broad and versatile repertoire. 

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This season, he sings two programs with the ensemble Il Caravaggio (Witch : Histoires Sacrées, Les Génies Duval), he sings and records the role of Saëb from Barkouf by Offenbach with Opera Rara, he resumes the tour of Les Indes Galantes - De La Voix Des Âmes in Geneva, Grenoble and Köln, he sings in Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo by Cavalieri with L'Arpeggiata in Kraków and Antwerp and the role of Cébas from Roméo et Juliette by Steibelt with Les Talens Lyriques, as well as an Offenbach gala with the Orchestre de Douai. On stage, he sings the title role in Pygmalion by Rameau together with the role of Nouradin from Le Cadi Dupé by Gluck in Tours and Versailles, he takes over the role of Abaris from Les Boréades in Karlsruhe and sings Yelisseï Bomelius from The Tsar's Bride in Bordeaux.