Tomislav Lavoie studied at the Conservatoire de Musique du Québec in Montreal as a violinist and then as a singer at the Montreal University in Mark Pedrotti’s class and with Marie Daveluy. He was named « Young Lyrical Ambassador » and received support from the Cedric Ferguson Foundation and from the Jeunesses Musicales du Canada. He then debuted as Masetto (Don Giovanni), Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro), Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), the Four villains (Les Contes d’Hoffmann)… Recently, he sang in Samson et Dalila under the baton of Tugan Sokhiev in Toulouse and Paris, Un Ballo in Maschera and Don Giovanni (Leporello) in Tours and at the Icelandic Opera in Reykjavik, Castor et Pollux with the Ensemble Pygmalion conducted by Raphaël Pichon in Besançon, Paris and Bordeaux. He made his debut at the Paris National Opera with Alceste, in Amsterdam with Faust conduted by Marc Minkowski and at the Opéra Comique with La Muette de Portici. He then appeared in Armide in Potsdam and Innsbruck, Le Pré aux Clercs in Wexford, Elektra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Seguin, the world creation of Les Féluettes at the Montreal Opera, L’Enfant et les sortilèges and L’Heure espagnole at the Cologne Opera. He also sang in Die Zauberflöte at Nice Opera, Léonore, ou L’Amour conjugal by Gaveaux in New-York and Washington, Le Sacre de Napoléon in Grenoble, Nîmes, Versailles and Amsterdam with Les Siècles, Alceste in Lyon, La Traviata at Paris Opera, La Reine de Chypre at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, La Légende du Roi dragon in Lille, Faust (Méphistophélès) under the baton of Jacques Lacombe, Rinaldo with the Kammerorchester Basel at the Halle Händel Festival, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and in Basel.Among his projects : La Traviata, Die Zauberflöte, Les Troyens and Les Huguenots at the Paris Opera, Die Zauberflöte (Sarastro) in Versailles and Avignon, Guillaume Tell in Lyon, L’Heure Espagnole with Les Siècles in Aix-en-Provence, Grenoble, Evian and Soissons, Ein deutsches Requiem with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal…

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