Tenor Kaëlig Boché (left) and bass baritone Sévag Tachdjian (below) will both be performing in the coming days at the Dijon opera house, in a new production of Bizet's masterpiece, Carmen, under the direction of German director Florentine Klepper, whose first production in France will be.
Kaëlig Boché will play the role of the Dancaïre, smuggler of his state, when Sévag Tachdjian will play Zuniga, lieutenant of the Dragons.
Named "Classical Revelation" of the year 2017 by ADAMI, Kaëlig Boché was awarded the Gabriel Fauré - Deodat de Séverac prize that same year, along with pianist Jeanne Vallée, at the Concours International de Mélodies Françaises de Toulouse. In 2018, he also won the Second Opera Prize at the Marseille International Singing Competition and the Mâcon International Singing Competition (as well as the High School Students' Prize).
A former member of the Cologne Opera Studio in 2010 and the Opera Studio du Rhin in 2012, Sévag Tachdjian was named "Best Young Hope" in 2011 by the German opera magazine "Theater Pur"; finalist in numerous singing competitions, he won 2nd prize in the "Canary International Competition" and the "Internationaler Komitas-Wettbewerb" in Berlin in 2015
