Belgian baritone Lionel Lhote studied at the Frameries Music Academy in his father’s class, and then at the Conservatoires in Mons and in Brussels with Marcel Vanaud. In 2004, he won the 6th prize in the Queen Elisabeth international Music Competition. He performs at the leading international opera houses (Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Flanders Opera, La Monnaie in Brussels, Monte-Carlo Opera and in Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Glyndebourne Festival, Teatro Massimo Palermo, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Opéra national du Rhin, Opéra national de Lyon, Paris Opera…) with conductors such as Evelino Pido, René Jacobs, Philippe Auguin, Marc Minkowksi, Stefano Montanari, Kazushi Ono, Alain Altinoglu, Adam Fischer, Patrick Davin, Carlo Rizzi and directors such as Laurent Pelly, David McVicar, Rolando Villazón, Stefano Poda, Richard Brunel, Mariusz Trelinski, Waut Koeken, Joël Pommerat. He is an acclaimed performer of the French repertoire: Escamillo (Carmen), Valentin (Faust), Zurga (Les Pêcheurs de perles), Sancho (Don Quichotte), Lescaut (Manon), Albert (Werther), Nilakantha (Lakmé), Hamlet (title-role), Henry VIII(title-role), Chorèbe (Les Troyens), Fieramosca (Benvenuto Cellini), Pelléas (Pelléas et Mélisande). His roles in the Italian repertoire includes: Germont (La Traviata), Paolo (Simon Boccanegra), Fra Melitone (La forza del destino), Il Conte di Luna (Il Trovatore), Amonasro (Aida), Posa (Don Carlos), Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Malatesta (Don Pasquale), Scarpia (Tosca), Marcello (La Bohème), Sharpless (Madame Butterfly), and his roles in the Mozart repertoire includes: Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Leporello (Don Giovanni), Papageno (The Magic Flute). Recent highlights include Sharpless (Madama Butterfly) at Opéra national de Lyon, Don Andrès de Ribeira (La Périchole) in Liège and Valentin at Opéra de Lille and Opéra Comique.



At the Paris Opera: La Bohème (Schaunard), 2014; Werther (Johann), 2016; Cendrillon (Pandolfe), 2022