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 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 (Oldenburg, Dijon), Tamino from Die Zauberflöte (Avignon, Versailles), Ferrando from Così fan tutte (Toulouse), Belmonte from Die Entführung aus dem Serail (French version in Versailles), Nemorino from L'Elisir d'Amore (Angers, Nantes and Rennes), Ernesto from Don Pasquale (Oldenburg), Nadir from Les Pêcheurs de Perles (Toulouse), Aristée/Pluton from Orpheus in the Underworld (Komische Oper Berlin, Düsseldorf, Toulouse), the title-role in Platée (Zürich) as well as 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, 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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During season 2025-2026, he takes over the role of Abaris from Les Boréades in Karlsruhe, he resumes the touring production of Les Indes Galantes - De la Voix des Âmes at La Scala in Milano and Sao Paulo, he sings Aristée and Pluton from Orpheus in the Underworld and Belmonte from Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Opéra de Tours (with a revival of Belmonte in Versailles), Monostatos from Die Zauberflöte in Bordeaux, the title-role in Platée in Versailles. Concert-wise, he sings a Purcell/Charpentier program in Sénart, Rougemont and at the Saint-Denis Festival then Pygmalion in Versailles (Ensemble Il Caravaggio). He sings La Messe de Minuit by Charpentier in Versailles (Ensemble Marguerite Louise) and takes over the Vespro della Beata Vergine by Monteverdi in Cremona (Ensemble Cappella Mediterranea).