Didier Henry, bariton 

The French baritone Didier Henry is frequently asked to perform on the world’s major stages, not only for opera but also concerts and recitals. A major turning-point in his career is the role of Pelléas which he first sang in Moscow in 1987 under the direction of Manual Rosenthal. He later recorded the work for Decca, conducted by Charles Dutoit. The recording won a Grammy Award in the United States and the Preis Deutschen Schallplatten Kritik in Germany. He has performed the role in France and aboard, including at the Colon in Buenos Aires in 1999, conducted by Armin Jordan and with Frederica von Stade, in Tokyo in 2000 and in the United States. His repertoire ranges from Oreste in Iphygénie en Tauride (La Scala, Milan) to Eugene Onegin, Don Alfonso in Cosi Fan Tutte, Marcello in La Bohème, Lescaut or De Brétigny in Massenet’s “Manon” (DVD Liceo Barcelona), Ambroise Thomas’ Hamlet, Posa in Don Carlos, or Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus. He sang the Marquis de la Force in a production of Dialogues des Carmélites in Strasbourg directed by Marthe Keller (DVD), also at La Scala in Milan with Riccardo Mutti conducting. Didier Henry performed Schumann’s Scenen aus Goethes Faust at Théâtre du Châtelet Paris, with the Orchestre National de France conducted by Jeffrey Tate. At the Massenet Festival in Saint-Etienne, he contributed to rediscovery of numerous works such as Amadis, Cléopâtre and Grisélidis, all of which he has also recorded. Didier Henry is a musician with a passion for the mélodie genre, and chamber music in general. He is dedicated to promoting this repertoire through his concerts, master classes and recordings of composers including Ravel, Poulenc, Saint-Saëns, Massenet, d’Ollone, Lazzari, Leguerney and Hahn. He is also rtistic director of the Maguelone label which endeavours to make known the melodic output of many 19th, 20th and 21st French century composers, as well as the works of our time. At present the label boasts 25 titles. Didier Henry teaches vocal interpretation, particularly the French Melody, not only to singers but also pianists and young conductors. From 1985 to 1997 he taught at the Académie Musicale Internationale de Bayonne. He also gives master-classes in France and abroad. Since 2007, he is teaching the French Melodies in the Hochschule für Musik of Karlsruhe with the french pianist Anne Le Bozec, and he is professor in the 12e arrondissement Conservatory in Paris.
  • Didier HENRY, bariton Angéline PONDEPEYRE, piano Ensemble Stamitz * Tel jour, telle nuit (Eluard) - Calligrammes (Appolinaire) - Cinq poèmes de Ronsard * Le Bestiare (Appolinaire) - * Cocardes (Cocteau) - * Le Bal Masqué (jacob)

  • Enter your email below; we will inform you first before the release of this record. Reynaldo HAHN - mélodies volume 3 VENEZIA, CHANSONS GRISES… Catherine DUNE, Jérôme BILLY, Didier HENRY Stéphane PETITJEAN, piano

  • Although Jacques Leguerney is one of the major melodists of our time, his personality and work remain largely unknown to the music-loving public. Through the expressive and poetic richness of this body of work, emerges the image of a unique and exceptional creative output which constitutes a “stage of achievement” in the history of the French melody....

  • Jules Massenet : Poème du Souvenir (cycle) - Mélodies Didier Henry, Baryton Angéline Pondepeyre, piano Une interprétation simple et subtile. (Diapason) La diction est exemplaire dans tous les registres,           Angéline Pondepeyre est une partenaire idéale. (Le Monde)

  • D. Clavier, violon - A. Pondepeyre, piano - D. Henry, baryton - D. Saroglou, piano - C. Dune, soprano - S. Petitjean, piano - Philharmonie de Lorraine dirigé par F. Quattrochi. Collection Reynaldo HAHN - Concertos, Musique de chambre, Mélodies Retrouvées…

  • Baryton, Didier HenrySoprano: Catherine DunePiano, Stéphane Petitjean Reynaldo Hahn : Mélodies vol.1 - Feuilles blessées, Five little songs, Méduse, La Dame aux Camélias, Mélodies retouvées…

  • Dalton Baldwin, S.De Beaufort, Catherine Dune, Didier Henry, Franck Ferrari, Angéline Pondepeyre, P. d’Ollone, Jean Schils, Sylvie Althaparro… Inédits vol.1 : Dukas : Sonnet, Leroux : soir d’hiver, Lazzari : Par les bois, Chaminade : Extase, Beydts : Adonis, Chausson : Le petit sentier, Moret : Sérénade Mélancolique, Franck : Le Sylphe, Duparc :...

  • Deux méldoes Hébraïques - Histoires Naturelles - Chansons Madécasses - Don Quichotte à Dulcinée - Trois Poèmes de mallarmé Maurice Ravel : mélodies Didier Henry, baryton - Angéline Pondepeyre, piano  Philippe Pierlot, flûte - Jean-Luc Bourré, cello

  • Maurice RAVEL - Mélodies Deux mélodies Hébraïques - Chansons populaires grecques - Histoires Naturelles - Chansons Madécasses - Don Quichotte à Dulcinée - Trois Poèmes de Mallarmé Didier Henry, baryton Angéline Pondepeyre, piano Membres de l'Orchestre National de France

  • Max d'Ollone - Cycle "in Memoriam", mélodies séparées Didier Henry, baryton - Patrice d'Ollone, Piano

  • - Trois poèmes de T. Klingsor - Impressions d'automne… Elsa Maurus, mezzo soprano - Didier Henry, baryton - Patrice d' Ollone, piano Max d' Ollone

  • Mélodies et duo - Sonate pour Cello et piano - Tomomi Mochizuki, mezzo - Didier HENRY, baryton - Alain Meunier, violoncelle - Anne Le Bozec, piano