Benabdallah Yanis

Repertoire

Preliminary

• Kodály: Verbunk

Semi-Final 

• Puccini: Tosca - E lucevan le stelle (Cavaradossi)
• Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann - Il était une fois à la cour d'Eisenach (Hoffmann)

Final

• Puccini: Le Villi - Torna ai felici dì (Roberto)
• Bizet: Carmen - La fleur que tu m'avais jetée (Don José)

Biography

The Hungarian-Moroccan tenor, born in 1986, met already during his childhood with the opera, as he was a soloist in the Children’s Choir of the Opéra Bastille since the age of 12. He obtained his first diploma at the Sorbonne University in piano and choir conducting, later in 2014, he was awarded an honour’s degree in voice at the École Normale de Musique de Paris.

He had his debut in 2007 in Cherbourg, with the operetta La fille de Madame Angot (Madame Angot’s Daughter) with the role of Ange Pitou. Hereupon, he played male main roles of many operas:

Bizet: Carmen – Don José
Darius Milhaud: Les malheurs d’Orphée – Orphée
Donizetti: L’elisir d’amore – Nemorino
Ferenc Farkas: The Magic Cupboard – Joiner
Gounod: Roméo et Juliette – Roméo
Monteverdi: The coronation of Poppaea – Nero
Mozart: The Magic Flute – Tamino
Offenbach: Les Brigands – Falsacappa
Verdi: La Traviata – Alfredo
Verdi: Nabucco

Since 2013 he performs regularly in Hungary as well in the productions of the Müpa, the National Theatre of Szeged, the National Theatre of Miskolc, the Vigadó of Pest and the Hungarian State Opera House. Besides operas, he also participates as soloist in oratorios and cantatas:

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Britten: Misericordium
Haydn: The Creation
Händel: Messiah
Honegger: Le Roi David
Mendelssohn: Psalm 95
Mozart: Requiem, Coronation Mass
Rossini: La petite solennelle