Jean-Paul Fouchécourt
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Jean-Paul Fouchécourt is a French tenor, mostly as an opera singer. He was born on August 20, 1958, at Blanzy in the Burgundy region. He is best known for singing French Baroque music, especially the parts called in French "haut-contre", written for a very high tenor voice with no falsetto singing.
He has performed and recorded for some of the top specialists in Baroque opera, namely William Christie (who gave him his first major roles), Marc Minkowski, René Jacobs, Philippe Herreweghe, Trevor Pinnock, and Christophe Rousset.
While noted for his roles in works by Rameau, Lully, Charpentier, and François Couperin, his repertory extends to Offenbach, Monteverdi, and Berlioz. as well as twentieth-century composers like Poulenc, Ravel, Fauré, and Britten.
In 2000, he was made a Chevalier in the Ordre National du Mérite in France.
[edit] Selected Recordings
Among the many Baroque operas and vocal pieces that Fouchécourt has recorded are:
- Atys by Lully, conducted by William Christie (1987) Harmonia Mundi
- The Fairy-Queen by Purcell, conducted by William Christie (1989) Harmonia Mundi
- Te Deum by Delalande, conducted by William Christie (1991) Harmonia Mundi
- Les Indes Galantes by Rameau, conducted by William Christie (1992) Harmonia Mundi
- Te Deum by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, conducted by William Christie (1992) Harmonia Mundi
- Phaëton by Lully, conducted by Marc Minkowski (1994) Erato
- Hippolyte et Aricie by Rameau, conducted by Marc Minkowski (1995) Archiv
- Dido and Aeneas by Purcell, conducted by William Christie (1995) Erato
- Les Fêtes d'Hébé by Rameau, conducted by William Christie (1998) Erato
- Pigmalion by Rameau, conducted by Hervé Niquet (1999) EMI International
- Acis & Galatée by Lully, conducted by Marc Minkowski (2006) Archiv
- Orphée et Euridice (1774 Paris version) by Gluck, conducted by Philip Ryan Brown (2005) Naxos
Other recordings include:
- La dame blanche by Boïeldieu, conducted by Marc Minkowski (1996, Released 1997, US Release 2001) EMI Classics/Angel
- Les mamelles de Tirésias by Francis Poulenc, conducted by Seiji Ozawa (1999) Philips
- Orphée aux enfers by Offenbach conducted by Marc Minkowski (1998) EMI
- Roméo & Juliette by Berlioz, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner (1998) Polygram
- Werther by Massenet, conducted by Antonio Pappano (1999) EMI Classics
