Florent Baffi
After studying the cello, Florent Baffi began his voice studies at the Tours Conservatory. In 2004, he joined the choir school at the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, and then, in 2007, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, graduating in 2012. This comprehensive training familiarized him with a wide variety of repertoires, from baroque to contemporary, including opera and operetta.
Attracted to the stage, he performed in numerous shows throughout his studies: Papageno (Mozart, The Magic Flute) at the CNSMDP, Lui (Messager, L’Amour Masqué) at the Auditorium of the Musée d’Orsay, Claude (Hahn, O mon bel inconnu) at the Opéra-Comique, etc.
He collaborates with ensembles of diverse backgrounds, both in terms of formation and repertoire: Le Concert d’Astrée, Sagittarius, Les Meslanges, La Chambre aux Echos, Ausonia, Aedes, Tarentule, Harmonia Sacra, Les Cris de Paris, and more.
Committed to contemporary creation, Florent Baffi regularly devotes himself to it, notably with the Musicatreize ensemble, the Sequenza 9-3 ensemble, and T&M. But it is primarily with the Le Balcon ensemble that he takes to the stage. In 2014, he played the Bishop in Peter Eötvös's Le Balcon at the Théâtre de l’Athénée, which was revived at the Lille Opera. In 2015, he returned to the Athénée stage for Michael Lévinas's La Métamorphose and Avenida de Los Incas 3518, an opera by Argentinian composer Fernando Fiszbein.
In 2016, Florent Baffi collaborated with Benjamin Lazar, Judith Chemla, and Florent Hubert, playing Doctor Grenvil in Traviata: You Deserve a Better Future, a show premiered at the Bouffes du Nord and touring in France and abroad in 2017 and 2018.