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Aimery Lefèvre Born 1983 in Bourges. Until 2000, Aimery Lefèvre
studied piano and organ performance as well as
singing at the Centre de Musique Baroque in Versailles,
where he specialized in 17 th - and 18 th -century
music performance. He continued his education at
the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique
et de Danse in Lyon under the direction of Brian
Parsons, and then became a member of the Paris
Opera’s Atelier Lyrique. Lefèvre has collaborated
with such artists as Patrick Cohen-Akenine, Martin
Gester, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Hervé Niquet and
Christophe Rousset. The first opera role he performed
was the male title role in H. Purcell’s Dido
and Aeneas, which he prepared under the direction
of Kenneth Weith. Beyond this, the artist has taken
part in the following productions: B. Britten’s The
Rape of Lucretia (Tours), W. A. Mozart’s Così fan
tutte (Rennes) and D. Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio
segreto (MC93 theater in Bobigny). Last season, he
debuted at the Paris Opera as Fiorello in G. Rossini’s
Il barbiere di Siviglia under the baton of Bruno
Campanelli, as well as Momus in J.-P. Rameau’s
opera Platée, led by Marc Minkowski. Lefèvre has
performed in his homeland of France, as well as in
Luxembourg, Italy and Holland (Concertgebouw in
Amsterdam), with the accompaniment of Les Folies
Françoises, Les Paladins, Musiciens du Louvre, La
Simphonie du Marais (J.-B. Lully, Atys, CD) etc.;
as well as in solo recitals at the Athénée Théâtre
Louis-Jouvet, Auditorium du Musée du Louvre,
Villa Medici in Rome, Teatro alla Scala in Milan,
and Teatro la Fenice in Venice.
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