Professors

Ludovico Tézier (Foto: Gregor Hohenberg/Sony Music)

French baritone Ludovic Tézier is one of the world's leading singers in his field. After studies in Marseille and Paris, he had his first successes in Lucerne, Toulouse and Lyon, the starting point of his international career.

Since then he has been a regular guest at the world's leading opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Vienna State Opera, the Opéra National de Paris, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and La Scala in Milan. Ludovic Tézier's artistic work has also been documented on numerous recordings. In 2015, Warner Classics released a recording of AIDA (CD).

Cassandre Berthon (Foto: Gregor Hohenberg/Sony Music)

Cassandre Berthon began violin studies at the age of four at the Marseille Conservatory and started to take singing lessons at the age of 16. After having successfully participated in national and international singing competitions, at the age of 18 she decided to pursue a professional career as a singer. 

Since she has been 20 years old, she performed on numerous theatre and festival stages such as Opéra Comique de Paris, Capitole de Toulouse, Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, the opera houses of Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Antwerp and Ghent, Liège, Lausanne, Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, Halle, Köln, Düsseldorf and has furthermore been invited by the most prestigious opera houses, such as Opéra national de Paris, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, the Salzburg Easter and Summer Festivals and the Savonlinna Festival.