Biography

After being unanimously awarded a Premier Prix diploma from the CNR in Paris, Eric Huchet continued his studies at Vienna’s Hochschule für Musik in the class of Walter Berry. He then began his opera career, singing Laios (Georges Enesco’s Œdipe) and Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) at Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, the Artist (Alban Berg’s Lulu) in Vienna and at the Opéra du Rhin, Almaviva (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) in Rouen and Duisburg, Beppe (I Pagliacci), Monostatos (die Zauberflöte) at the Angers-Nantes Opera, Truffaldino (The Love for Three Oranges) at the Dijon Opera, and Le Duc and Le Capitaine (Fénelon’s Faust), Sylvester von Schaumberg (Mathis der Maler) and Heinrich der Schreiber (Tannhäuser) at the Opéra National de Paris. In this same opera house, he also played Graf Elemer (Arabella), Truffaldino and Normano (Lucia di Lammermoor).

Eric Huchet’s repertoire also extends to comic opera and operettos. He has worked with Jérôme Savary in Offenbach’s La Périchole, which he has played over 150 times in Chaillot and at the Opéra-Comique. He has also taken part in Offenbach productions under Minkowski and Pelly: Aristée-Pluton (Orphée aux Enfers) in Geneva and Lyon, and Achille (La Belle Hélène) at the Châtelet. He has played Ouf 1er in L’Étoile at the Angers-Nantes Opera, in Luxemburg and in Nancy, Les Valets (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) at the Geneva, Monte-Carlo and Paris Operas, Alfred (Die Fledermaus) at the Bordeaux, Liège and Nancy Operas, Harry (La Fanciulla del West) at the Paris Opera, Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte) at the Nantes Opera and the Art Professor in the premiere of M.-A. Dalbavie’s Charlotte Salomon at the Salzburg Festival.

More recently, he sang Spoletta (Tosca) at the Paris Opera, Alfred at the Tours and Reims Operas, and Cantarelli (Le Pré aux Clercs) at the Opéra Comique, in Lisbon and at the Wexford Festival. He revisited the role of the First Armoured Man (Die Zauberflöte) at the Paris Opera and sang Torquemada (L’Heure Espagnole) at the Nantes Opera, Prologue and Peter Quint (Turn of the Screw) at the Bordeaux Opera, l’Aumônier (Dialogues des Carmélites) at the Saint-Étienne Opera, Don Miguel de Panatellas (La Périchole) at the Salzbourg Festival, in Montpellier ans at the Bordeaux Opera house, Syfroid (Geneviève de Brabant), Tikhon (Katia Kabanova) and Ménélas (Belle Hélène) in Nancy, Offenbach's Maitre Péronilla at the  Théâtre des Champs Elysées,   Le Marquis de Pontsablé (Offenbach's Madame Favart ) at the Opéra Comique and in Caen, Nathanael et Schlemil (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) in Bordeaux, Amrou (Reine de Saba) and Monsieur Triquet (Eugen Oneguin) in Marseille, Bardolfo (Falstaff) in Montpellier, Torquemada (L'heure Espagnole) in Monte Carlo, Guillot de Mortfontaine (Manon) in Zürich, at the Lyon Auditorium and at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, The Bresilian, Gontra, & Frick (La Vie Parisienne) in Rouen, and at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Don Miguel de Panatellas (La Périchole)  at the Paris Opera-Comique, the second Jewish (Salomé), Basilio (Nozze di Figaro) and Normanno (Lucia di Lammermoor) at the Opéra National de Paris, Pong (Turandot) at the Opera National du Rhin and in Dijon, the Chaplain (Dialogues des Carmélites) in Massy.

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He is currently preparing to play the second Jewish (Salomé), Basilio (Nozze di Figaro), Mosquito and the School Master (The Small Cunning Vixen) at the Opéra National de Paris...