Cyrille Dubois; “WINTERREISE”; Franz Schubert

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Cyrille Dubois–tenor
Anne Le Bozec–piano
2023
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“…When it comes to Dubois, there’s first of all a straightforward pleasure to be had from his singing, his tenor plangent and sweet, with a strong but pliant core to its sound. And he brings to Schubert the same instinctive sense of communication as heard in his Fauré. What’s perhaps most remarkable is the sense of character and atmosphere he creates, the intense feeling of concentration as he brings us into the depths of Schubert and Müller’s world.

He expertly communicates the Wanderer’s tiredness and then desperation in ‘Rast’ and doesn’t shy away from conveying frustration (in ‘Im Dorfe’) or even shocking forcefulness (as in the final phrases of ‘Auf dem Flusse’), but it’s never at the expense of his innate musicality. The moments of delicacy are as beautiful as one would expect (witness the final verse of ‘Der Lindenbaum’) and the contrasts of ‘Frühlingstraum’ are movingly captured. Indeed, each song benefits from beautifully observed details, but, perhaps more importantly, it’s been a long time since I’ve heard the cycle cohere into such a powerful whole.

Dubois’s German occasionally has a slight Gallic colour, and the booklet offers summaries of each song rather than texts and translations, but none of that detracts from what is a very fine Winterreise – and a beautifully recorded one, too. Highly recommended.” Hugo Shirley; gramophone
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“Cyrille Dubois (born 27 September 1984) is a French tenor performing as an opera and lieder singer.

Early life and education
Cyrille Dubois spent his childhood in Ouistreham in Normandy, France. As a child he demonstrated an early talent for singing and joined the Maîtrise de Caen[a] as a soprano where he read music and studied the organ.[1][2] At age 14 he was Miles in the Turn of the Screw at the Opéra de Lyon. While studying at the Rennes Superior School for Agronomy where he took his degree in fisheries science, he continued practising singing as a tenor at the Rennes Conservatory [fr].[1] In 2008 he was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris and in 2010 to the Paris Opera workshop that gave him the opportunity to sing and play major opera parts.[2]

Career
In 2010 Dubois created the Duo Contraste with pianist Tristan Raës. Together they have performed recitals in France at Opéra Bastille and other concert halls, such as in Venice, Italy, at Wigmore Hall, England,[3] and the Hermitage Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia.[2]

In 2012 he portrayed Nathanaël in les Contes d’Hoffmann at La Scala. The following year he made his début with the Théatre de la Monnaie in Brussels as Azor in La Dispute, a contemporary opera by Benoît Mernier.[2] A performance as Gérald in Lakmé followed. In 2014 he sang Oronte in Alcina, Pâris in La Belle Hélène and was Coelio in les Caprices de Marianne by Henri Sauguet and toured around France. In 2015, he performed as Narciso in Il Turco in Italia and made his début at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in Maurice Ravel’s L’heure espagnole.[4] The same year he appeared as Brighella in Ariadne auf Naxos and Worker in Le Roi Arthus. In 2016 he performed as Marzio in Mitridate, re di Ponto and Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail.[5]”; Wikipedia