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Jean-Gabriel Saint Martin discovered singing in the Children's Choir of the Paris Opera under the direction of Francis Bardot.
He followed the teaching of Nicole Fallien, and after obtaining a Master's degree in Private Law, he joined the CNSMDP in Pierre Mervant's class in 2005. He also perfected early music with Michèle Ledroit at the CRR from Strasbourg, and also follows the teaching of Noëlle Barker and Lionel Sarrazin.
Member of the Opéra Studio of the Opéra National du Rhin from 2009 to 2011 and of the Nouveau Studio of the Opéra de Lyon in 2012, he was named “Classical Revelation – Lyric Artist” by the ADAMI Artistic Association in 2011.
He made his debut at the Paris National Opera in 2012 in Handel's Giulio Cesare under the direction of Emmanuelle Haïm, and returned to the Palais Garnier in 2014 for Massenet's Le Cid under the direction of Michel Plasson alongside Roberto Alagna.
He is also invited to the Aix-en-Provence International Festival L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (Ravel), Les Boréades (Rameau), Ariadne auf Naxos (R. Strauss), Tosca (Puccini) as well as to the Festival de Radio-France/Occitanie for Fantasio and Bataclan (Offenbach), Siberia (Giordano), Kassya (Delibes).
He has since performed in France and abroad as a soloist associated with renowned baroque ensembles such as Le Concert d'Astrée (Emmanuelle Haïm), Les Musiciens du Louvre (Marc Minkowski), Le Poème Harmonique (Vincent Dumestre), Opera Fuoco ( David Stern) or Le Concert Spirituel (Hervé Niquet).
On stage, he notably played the title role of Mozart's Don Giovanni during the Open Air Opera tour in 2014, as well as the title role of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro at the Saint-Céré Festival in 2016 and most recently at the Opéra de Saint-Etienne in November 2022.
He performs at the Opéra National du Rhin (Richard III, Ariadne auf Naxos, Il Matrimonio Segreto, Carmina Burana, Nino Rota's Aladin et la Lampe Merveilleuse, Hamlet, Don Pasquale, Schrecker's Der Ferne Klang, Die Zauberflöte, Janaceck's From House of the dead, Offenbach's La Vie Parisienne, La Traviata, Snow White, Salomé, Werther), the Marseille Opera (Candide, Carmen), the Lille Opera (Rameau's Dardanus, Gérard Pesson's Three Tales), the Rennes Opera (Carmen, Three Tales), the Dijon Opera (Dardanus, La Traviata, Haendel's Agrippina), the Saint-Etienne Opera (Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Hamlet, La Traviata, Le Nozze di Figaro), the Massy Opera (Le Nozze di Figaro, Boismortier's Don Quixote at the Duchess, Carmen, Cosi fan Tutte) the Clermont Opera (Le Nozze di Figaro, Cosi Fan Tutte), the Tours Opera (Weill's The 7 Deadly Sins, Grétry's La Caravane du Caire), at the Royal Opera of Versailles (Grétry's Richard Coeur de Lion and La Caravane du Caire).
In 2018, he took on the role of Lescaut as part of the cycle Les Grandes Voix at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Manon by Massenet alongside Juan-Diego Florez and Nino Machaidze under the direction of Frédéric Chaslin.
He has collaborated with the greatest directors: Robert Carsen, David Cronenberg, Olivier Py, Laurent Pelly, Katie Mitchell, Christophe Honoré, Jean-François Sivadier, Jean-Yves Ruf, Vincent Boussard, Mariame Clément, Waut Koecken, Marshall Pynkoski or leading conductors: Marc Albrecht, Frédéric Chaslin, Daniele Rustioni, Marko Letonja, Theodor Guschlbauer, Placido Domingo, Roland Boer, Ariane Matiakh, Constantin Trinks, Giuseppe Grazioli, Hervé Niquet.
Among his projects this season, we can note a production of Don Giovanni at the Royal Opera of Versailles (Masetto), Schubert's Winterreise at the Tours Opera in a new version for Solo Baritone and Mixed Choir, or the Grande Messe in C of Mozart with ONDIF and the Radio-France Choir at the Philharmonie de Paris.
September 2023