Philippe Do

The tenor of Vietnamese origin, Philippe Do, was born in France. He studied at the Mannes College of Music in New York and obtained his MBA at the ESSEC Business School in Paris. He won several international contests, including the prestigious Toti dal Monte (Treviso) in 2001. Philippe debuted at the National Opera in Lyon and very quickly started his international career – he performed at opera houses in Paris, Toulouse, Montpellier, Avignon, Venice, Stuttgart, Schwerin, Bangkok, etc. In June 2006, he debuted at La Scala in Milan in the opera Dido and Aeneas, with Christopher Hogwood; he appeared for the first time in Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in Adriana Lecouvreur in September 2006. His key roles include Nadir (Les Pęcheurs de perles), Gérald (Lakmé), Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Romeo (Romeo and Julie), Sou Chong (Das Land des Lächelns), Des Grieux (Manon), Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Tom (The Rake’s Progress), Lensky (Eugene Onegin), Alfredo (La traviata), The Duke (Rigoletto), Fenton (Falstaff).

He took part in a number of world first nights, for example of the opera Joseph Merrick dit The Elephant Man by Laurent Petitgirard at the Prague State Opera, Le Premier Cercle by Gilbert Amy, and Il Canto della Pelle by Claudio Ambrosini at the Lyon Opera. He has sung under the baton of Yevgeni Svetlanov, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Maurizio Benini, Christoph Eschenbach, Michel Plasson, Albert Zedda, etc. He performed under the accompaniment of such prestigious orchestras as Orchestre Nationale de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and Stuttgart Radio Orchestra. His rich discography, apart from operatic literature, also contains a recital of French songs recorded together with pianists Françoise Tillard (Ed. Maisonneuve & Larose).