Sing and say “Hamlet”, that is the question for the baritone Stéphane Degout<

The Lyonnais singer, soon on the stage of the comic opera in Paris for "Hamlet", by Ambroise Thomas, came to Lyrique art by the diverted path of the theater.But it was thanks to a high school choir that he was able to tame his voice.From his beginnings on the boards, he keeps a taste for texts, which he wants to make as alive as possible.

Give an appointment a stone's throw from rue Ambroise-Thomas (Paris 9th), named after the Hamlet composer whom he repeats at the comic opera, Stéphane Degout did not do it on purpose.If the most epicurean of the French baritons offered the Café-Restaurant Le Richer, it is because it is close to the comic...And that we eat well!As it is too early to verify it, we will discuss around a frugal Green tea of the news in charge of the Lyon singer, who has become temporarily Parisian for Hamlet, therefore, as well as for Trojans, of Hector Berlioz.

When you can see it on a tray, with its thin silhouette, its clear eyes and its pronounced baldness, Stéphane Degout looks like a Dostoyevskien character.In fact, it is generally entrusted with tragic roles, "while I can be very funny!»».Up close, the man is affable and smiling.He looks like the profile of his Twitter account, where he is expressed as much on the current rehearsals as on his last culinary experiences, and where he pleasantly self -caught "knight of the fork", in the blink of an eye to his appointmentas knight of arts and letters (in 2012).But if we recognize, in his spoken voice, the chiaroscuro of his virile and delicate stamp, it must be heard on stage to savor the clarity of his diction, and the total commitment he shows, thatHe must make the contradictions of an opera hero credible, or translate the spirit of a melodies cycle as accurately as possible.