“Bass Julien Ségol lends Timur the noble authority of age and experience, whether in the depth of his timbre or the dignity of his posture.”
Ô Lyrix, 01.2025
“Plutone (an excellent Julien Ségol) was particularly strong and subtle as played by this talented singing actor.”
Plays to See, 07.2023
“The rich timbre of bass Julien Ségol is ideal in his three roles: amiable as Berger, imposing as Spirit, it is in the service of Pluto that the young man uses his highly distinctive voice with the greatest impact.”
Anaclase, 07.2023
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For the 24/25 season, Julien will be performing the roles of Takao/Butterfly Room Service (Royaumont Festival), Dr. Grenvil/Traviata (Gare du Midi, Biarritz), Timur/Turandot (Grand Théâtre, Avignon), Zarastro and the Orator/Magic Flute (Tours Opera), Publio/Clemenza di Tito (Massy Opera), Commander/Don Giovanni (Teatro Manzoni, Pistoia), Bluebeard/Bluebeard’s Castle (excerpts, Teatro Galleria Toledo, Naples) and Plutone/L’Orfeo (with I Gemelli, Toûno festival). He is also invited to perform at the Bachfest in Leipzig with the Opera Fuoco orchestra (David Stern). Julien will be Saratrso's voice double in the French version of Florian Sigl's film The Magic Flute (2022).
Julien was recently acclaimed in his debut at the Longborough Festival Opera as Pluto/L'Orfeo with the ensemble La Serenissima, directed by Oliva Fuchs ; he also sang the roles of Sarastro/Zauberflöte in a production by Jean-François Sivadier, conducted by Emmanuel Olivier (Abbaye de Royaumont), and the Death/Der Kaiser von Atlantis at the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg in an ENOA project directed by Stéphane Roussel and conducted by Corinna Niemeyer with the Luxembourg Chamber Orchestra.
Julien also regularly performs in concert: as bass soloist in Beethoven's Fantaisie op. 80 under the baton of Jean-Claude Casadesus with the Orchestre de Picardie (Lille Piano Festival), in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony conducted by Bar Avni with the Bayer-philharmoniker (Altenberger Dom), under David Robertson with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester (Berlin Philharmonic), and in Monteverdi's Fifth Book of Madrigals conducted by Geoffroy Jourdain at the Abbaye de Royaumont. The lied and mélodie repertoire holds an important place for Julien: he is regularly invited in recital with the musicians of the Orchestre de Paris at the Festival 8 de Montcabrier and collaborates with the string quartet of the Tonhain.Kollektiv (Berlin).
A multidisciplinary artist with a passion for dance, Julien works with choreographers on contemporary creations, notably the role of Wolf in Das neue Rotkäppchen (Su-eun Lee) at the Berlin Deutsche Oper (Tischlerei), or in the creation by Margaux Marielle-Trehoüart and the OperaLab company of a choreographic version of Stimmung(Stockausen), presented as part of the Neue Musik festival at Deutsches Nationaltheater (Weimar). This season, he created the role of Takao in Butterfly Room Service at the Royaumont Festival as a laureate of the Académie Voix Nouvelle, with the Ensemble Linéa conducted by Jean-Philippe Wurtz, and he will be Bluebeard in the premiere of Barbablù (I. Paura) by Stéphane Ghislain Roussel and Alessandra d'Elia at the Teatro Stabile Galleria Toledo in Naples.
Julien Ségol is a laureate of the Fondation Royaumont (Académie Voix nouvelle 2024), and has recently joined the 6th Generation of Opera Fuoco. He has won several international prizes (3rd Prize UFAM Schola Cantorum, FLAME Paris finalist...) and scholarships, notably from the Internationale Oxenfoord Summer School Malcolm Martineau, the Vocalis Academy Robert Holl, and the Akademie Bel Canto (Wildbad).
After teaching philosophy at university, Julien devoted himself fully to his first passion: the opera stage. Parallel to his academic curiculum at Sciences-Po Paris and the EHESS, he entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Danse et de Musique de Paris (musicology) and continued his vocal training at the Musikhochschule Felix Mendelssohn (Leipzig).
