Cyril Rovery

Cyril Rovery received a prize at the Voix Nouvelles competition in 1998 at the Avignon and Paris opera houses, followed by a unanimous gold medal at the Marseille Conservatory in 2000 and the city's grand prize. His bass-baritone repertoire includes Pietro in Simon Boccanegra, Antonio in Le nozze di Figaro, Gessler in Guillaume Tell, the High Priest of Brahma in L'Africaine, which he sang at the Opéra de Marseille in 2023. Outside France he has appeared with the national companies of Romania, in Sofia and in Amsterdam. He teaches voice and breathing at the European Centre for Eloquence and Voice. Verdi's Requiem, given by the Sofia Philharmonic on 5 April 2018, put him in a quartet of soloists with Vesselina Kasarova, Mario Malagnini and Maria Tsvetkova-Madzharova. At Marseille he worked in Tiberius Raffalli's class and afterwards in those of Leo Nucci, Alain Fondary, Gabriel Bacquier, Robert Massard and Renato Bruson, and took first prizes at Mâcon in 1999 and at Siena in 2002, where the audience prize went to him as well. His student roles were Schaunard, Escamillo and Masetto, and in 2000 he sang in Franco Donatoni's Alfred, Alfred in Paris, Amsterdam and Rotterdam and in Gérard Pesson's Forever Valley; he has appeared in Kanazawa and in Poland, and recorded for Universal and EDA.