Biography
While maintaining a major presence in the contemporary music repertoire Benjamin Alunni loves devoting himself to creation. He regularly performs on the stage of several leading opera houses such as le Théâtre de la Monnaie I De Munt, l’Opéra Comique, le Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, le Lincoln Center…
He began his professional career in Baroque music under the direction of Christophe Rousset, Skip Sempé, Raphaël Pichon… He has been performing regularly with les Les Arts Florissants and William Christie since the revival of the mythical production of Lully‘s Atys in a production by Jean-Marie Villégier – Opéra Comique, Opéra de Bordeaux, Brooklyn Academy of Music – New-York.
He sang at the Aix-en-Provence festival in 2019 for the world creation of Adam Maor’s opera Mille Endormis, which was performed later on at the Lisbon Gulbenkian Foundation and at the Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg. He started collaborating with the Aix-en-Provence festival where he was awarded the Prix des Amis du Festival at the Académie within the context of the “Voices and Creation” academy. His love for contemporary music and for crossing genres have led him to work with choreographers such as Thomas Lebrun – Centre Chorégraphie National de Tours in which he performed alongside eight dancers and the Quatuor Voce – created at the Palais de Chaillot – as well as the Lied Ballet which performed at the Cloître des Carmes in 2014 during the Festival d’Avignon and while touring France and China.
Other engagements include Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and at La Monnaie I De Munt, Der Kaiser von Atlantis de Viktor Ullmann at the Opéra de Dijon where he was also invited to sing in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo.
He sang Alcindor in Bohème, notre jeunesse, adapted from Puccini’s La Bohème for the Opéra Comique and directed by Pauline Bureau. He made his debut in the role of Pelléas by Debussy, directed by Richard Brunel for the Opéra de Lyon in 2021. The production was rescheduled to the following season due to the sanitary crisis. He also collaborated with composer Hana Ajiashvili in the creation of her new opera, Cut Glass, for the Tel Aviv Felicjia Blumenthal Festival.
Alongside Richard Brunel and Youness Anzane, he imagined an opera about homophobia which mostly targeted young people and aimed at introducing them to contemporary opera and music by engaging them: « Zylan ne chantera plus” (Zylan will not sing anymore), a monodrama based on a true story commissioned to the librettist Yann Verburgh and created in November 2021.
Benjamin ALUNNI forms a piano-voice duo with pianist and conductor Fernando Palomeque. Anochecer en España – hispanism in French melody – and A Musical salon whose theme is friendship and cultural exchanges between France and the United States – musical, literary, linguistic, aesthetic, etc. – from Maurice Ravel to to the creation of “3 Erotiques”, commissioned from the American composer Hannah Lash. The premier of this programme to place during a tour in the US (Boston, French Embassy DC, Maryland, Ohio, Texas).
In 2018 he founded the non profit organisation Chant de Linos whose aim is to showcase our musical inheritance, working alongside musicologists, to commission new music from composers, and outreach project. Confluence{s} Benjamin’s first solo album – Klarthe records – is dedicated to French melody inspired by Jewish cultures. His fascination for cultural influences in French music is reflected in Anochecer en España and A Musical salon. Benjamin Alunni premiered the chamber opera Zylan ne chantera plus and the contemporary oratorio Philosophies by composer Hana Ajiashvili and librettist Royce Vavrek, in may 2023 in Les Theatre du Luxembourg and at Tel-Aviv Art Museum
Benjamin ALUNNI received the Prix des Amis from the Festival d’Art Lyrique d’Aix en Provence.
He is the vocal coach for the Classe Libre at the Le Cours Florent depuis 2020.
– May 2023
Biography
While maintaining a major presence in the contemporary music repertoire Benjamin Alunni loves devoting himself to creation. He regularly performs on the stage of several leading opera houses such as le Théâtre de la Monnaie I De Munt, l’Opéra Comique, le Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, le Lincoln Center…
He began his professional career in Baroque music under the direction of Christophe Rousset, Skip Sempé, Raphaël Pichon… He has been performing regularly with les Les Arts Florissants and William Christie since the revival of the mythical production of Lully‘s Atys in a production by Jean-Marie Villégier – Opéra Comique, Opéra de Bordeaux, Brooklyn Academy of Music – New-York.
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He sang at the Aix-en-Provence festival in 2019 for the world creation of Adam Maor’s opera Mille Endormis, which was performed later on at the Lisbon Gulbenkian Foundation and at the Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg. He started collaborating with the Aix-en-Provence festival where he was awarded the Prix des Amis du Festival at the Académie within the context of the “Voices and Creation” academy. His love for contemporary music and for crossing genres have led him to work with choreographers such as Thomas Lebrun – Centre Chorégraphie National de Tours in which he performed alongside eight dancers and the Quatuor Voce – created at the Palais de Chaillot – as well as the Lied Ballet which performed at the Cloître des Carmes in 2014 during the Festival d’Avignon and while touring France and China.
Other engagements include Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and at La Monnaie I De Munt, Der Kaiser von Atlantis de Viktor Ullmann at the Opéra de Dijon where he was also invited to sing in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo.
He sang Alcindor in Bohème, notre jeunesse, adapted from Puccini’s La Bohème for the Opéra Comique and directed by Pauline Bureau. He made his debut in the role of Pelléas by Debussy, directed by Richard Brunel for the Opéra de Lyon in 2021. The production was rescheduled to the following season due to the sanitary crisis. He also collaborated with composer Hana Ajiashvili in the creation of her new opera, Cut Glass, for the Tel Aviv Felicjia Blumenthal Festival.
Alongside Richard Brunel and Youness Anzane, he imagined an opera about homophobia which mostly targeted young people and aimed at introducing them to contemporary opera and music by engaging them: « Zylan ne chantera plus” (Zylan will not sing anymore), a monodrama based on a true story commissioned to the librettist Yann Verburgh and created in November 2021.
Benjamin ALUNNI forms a piano-voice duo with pianist and conductor Fernando Palomeque. Anochecer en España – hispanism in French melody – and A Musical salon whose theme is friendship and cultural exchanges between France and the United States – musical, literary, linguistic, aesthetic, etc. – from Maurice Ravel to to the creation of “3 Erotiques”, commissioned from the American composer Hannah Lash. The premier of this programme to place during a tour in the US (Boston, French Embassy DC, Maryland, Ohio, Texas).
In 2018 he founded the non profit organisation Chant de Linos whose aim is to showcase our musical inheritance, working alongside musicologists, to commission new music from composers, and outreach project. Confluence{s} Benjamin’s first solo album – Klarthe records – is dedicated to French melody inspired by Jewish cultures. His fascination for cultural influences in French music is reflected in Anochecer en España and A Musical salon. Benjamin Alunni premiered the chamber opera Zylan ne chantera plus and the contemporary oratorio Philosophies by composer Hana Ajiashvili and librettist Royce Vavrek, in may 2023 in Les Theatre du Luxembourg and at Tel-Aviv Art Museum
Benjamin ALUNNI received the Prix des Amis from the Festival d’Art Lyrique d’Aix en Provence.
He is the vocal coach for the Classe Libre at the Le Cours Florent depuis 2020.
World
Premiere
– Hana Ajiashvili, Lumineuse, chamber music
– Hana Ajiashvili, Cut Glass, opera
– Hana Ajiashvili, Philosophies*, poetic oratorio for tenor and ensemble
– Vincent Bouchot, Nouveau Testament*, joke for voice and piano
– Federico Gardella, Sirène, chamber opera
– Hannah Lash, 3 Érotiques*, tenor and piano
– Alexandro Markeas, Désarmés (Cantique), opera
– Adam Maor, Les Mille Endormis, opera
– Samy Moussa, The Sick Rose, voice and piano
– Brice Pauset, Wonderfull Deluxe, opera
– Nimrod Sahar, Contexte*, voice, cello and piano
– Mithatcan Öcal, Les paroles autour de la musique, voice and ensemble
– Gilles Schuehmacher, Chants d’adieu, voice and cello
– Diano Soh, Zylan ne chantera plus*, chamber opera
* commissioned by Chant de Linos
BENJAMIN ALUNNI
IN THE PRESS
“Bright, rounded timbre. Dazzling Benjamin Alunni”
Le Monde – Marie-Aude Roux
“French tenor Benjamin Alunni accomplished a monumental feat in delivering the huge newspaper account of the stricken children babbling in Arabic with detached cantorial aplomb.”
Operatoday.com – Michael Milenski
” […] Tenor Benjamin Alunni, a limpid voice and a remarkably beguiling timbre. “
Télérama – Sophie Bourdais
“Eventually, we get a contrast thanks to the meditative parts whose true poetry owes much to a subtle eastern atmosphere pervading them, as is the case with tenor Benjamin Alunni’s splendid solo […]”
Le Figaro – Christian Merlin
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