Didier Henry
Didier Henry is a French baritone.
He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris before joining the Opéra National de Lyon. He is well known for his French opera roles, including those by Massenet, Gounod, Debussy, and Ravel. He also starred in the notable recordings of Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges in French, under conductor Kent Nagano and Chabrier's Gwendoline, under conductor Jean-Paul Penin. The baritone is regularly invited on international stages, as often for lyrical productions than for concerts or recitals.
His career was marked by the part of the male protagonist in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande. He participated at the opera’s first performance in Moscow in 1987 under the baton of Manuel Rosenthal. He performs the role in France as well as abroad.
His repertory also includes Oreste in Iphigénie en Tauride, the title role in Eugene Onegin, the Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Marcello in La Bohême, Manon by Massenet, Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas, Posa in Don Carlos, and Einsenstein in Die Fledermaus. He has also been conducted by Riccardo Muti, Myung-whun Chung, and Michel Plasson.
Henry is also a mélodie interpreter and stage director. He has also taught French mélodie with pianist Anne Le Bozec since October 2006 at the Hochschule de Karlsruhe. In addition, he is Maguelone’s record label manager.