Florent Baffi
After studying the cello, Florent Baffi began studying singing at the Conservatoire de Tours. In 2004, he joined the choir of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles and then, in 2007, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, from which he graduated in 2012. This comprehensive training familiarised him with a wide variety of repertoires, from baroque to contemporary, including opera and operetta, and quickly led to a range of collaborations: Le Concert d'Astrée, Sagittarius, Les Meslanges, Aedes, Harmonia Sacra, Le Poème Harmonique, Les Cris de Paris, and more.
Particularly attached to contemporary creation, Florent Baffi has worked with the Musicatreize ensemble, the Sequenza 9-3 ensemble and T&M, among others. He has a special relationship with Le Balcon, an ensemble directed by Maxime Pascal. With the latter, he played the Bishop in Peter Eötvös' Le Balcon at the Théâtre de l'Athénée (2014). He then performed in Michael Lévinas' La Métamorphose (2015), Fernando Fiszbein's Avenida de Los Incas 3518 (2015), Wolfgang Rihm's Jakob Lenz (2019), Like Flesh by Sivan Eldar at the Opéra de Lille (2021) and, most recently, the Angel of Joy in Sonntag aus Licht by Karlheinz Stockhausen (2023) at the Philharmonie de Paris.
His appetite for the stage and musical theatre has led to him being sought after for ambitious projects. He plays Doctor Grenvil in Traviata, Vous méritez un avenir meilleur (You Deserve a Better Future) by Benjamin Lazar with Judith Chemla, a hit created in 2016 at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord and running until 2026. He has the opportunity to participate in Jeanne Candel's Règne de Tarquin (The Reign of Tarquin), created at the Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil with music by Florent Hubert. He is participating in Lisaboa Houbrechts' Bruegel, premiered at the Tonnelhuis in Antwerp and touring France, Belgium and the Netherlands. He is taking on the role of Gino in Philippe Minyana's play Nuit, directed by the author and set to music by Nicolas Ducloux at the Manufacture des Œillets, then touring France.
In 2024-25, he returned to Die Sieben Todsünden in Jacques Osinski's production at the Rennes Opera House, conducted by Benjamin Levy, and in its English version with the Lille National Orchestra, conducted by Joshua Weilerstein. He previously created the role of Malo in La Falaise des Lendemains, a work by Jean-Marie Machado at the Rennes Opera House, directed by Jean Lacornerie, which was also performed at the Nantes-Angers Opera House, the Atelier Lyrique in Tourcoing and the Mac Creteil. He took part in the creation of the show Cynthia et Orpheus in the Operabus, on tour in the North. And in June, he performed Le Fauteuil et l'Arbre under the direction of Alphonse Cemin at the Académie Ravel.
His upcoming engagements include, among others, the role of Lucipolype in Montag aus Licht by Karlheinz Stockhausen at the Philharmonie de Paris with Le Balcon, the revival of Traviata, vous méritez un avenir meilleur at the TNP in Villeurbanne, the tour of Cynthia et Orpheus and his participation in Requiem pour les vivants by Delphine Hecquet at the Théâtre de la Tempête.