French tenor Jean-François Novelli, winner of the Concours Général, holder of a Master's degree in Musicology from the Sorbonne, First Prize in recorder, graduated of the CNSMD in Paris in singing and ADAMI young talent, turned quite naturally - from his first instrument - to early music, which he has practiced and continues to practise with great passion. This is borne out by some thirty recordings and DVDs with today's great conductors of early music. These include Silentium, a recital disc on the pruning voice that he recorded with Fabien Armengaud, and Tirannique Empire, a recital of cantatas by Jean-Baptiste Stuck with the ensemble Les Lunaisiens "première époque".

His recent engagements include roles like Remendado (Carmen) at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice, Torquemada (L'heure espagnole) on tour in Italy (Operas of Brescia, Como, Cremona and Pavia), the Herald (Godard's Dante) at the Opéra de Saint-Etienne, or Telemaco and Pisandro (Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria) ; a project that has been touring the world for 10 years (Europe: Opéra Massimo in Palermo, Théâtre Royal in Versailles, Spain... Asia: Korea, Hong Kong, United States: New York...)

This year he will also be Jean-Paul and Monsieur Victor in Ô Mon bel Inconnu by Reynaldo Hahn, directed by Emeline Bayard, first performed at the Grand Théâtre in Tours, then at the Théâtre de l'Athénée in Dijon, the Grand Théâtre in Avignon, the Théâtre des Arts in Rouen and Massy.

His love of stage performance led him to study clowning with Françoise Simon and Raphaël Almosni and theatre with Olivier Broche. He explores and exploits these teachings with delight in his own projects developped with the Compagnie l’Autre Voix that he created : Croustilleux la Fontaine, a recital of theatrical songs based on the licentious tales of Jean de La Fontaine set in music by Antoine Sahler and directed by Juliette, is still touring and has already been performed more than 80 times. An album of songs from the show was released in 2022 Ma vie de ténor (a novel that interests me a lot) based on a text by Berlioz about the singer's ego, directed by Olivier Broche that will be performed at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Michel for the « off »part of the Avignon Festival in July 2023.

He has also created a number of 'pocket' shows combining poetry and music: Divine bouteille, a recital based on wine, a subject that could not be more present in Baroque music, with lute, or La boite à Joujoux, a fantasy revisited with piano, based on the tale of Hellé and Claude Debussy's work of the same name.

He has just released a recital disc of French melodies, Vous souvenez vous? a tribute to the first rediscoverers of early music at the dawn of the 20th century and beyond, with Maude Gratton at the piano.

Jean-François Novelli has been represented by RSB Artists since 2013.

After studying literature at Paris IV, Olivier Broche trained as an actor at the Cours Périmony. He began working for the theatre and television, and appeared in various commercials. In 1992 he joined the Deschamps company, playing in Lapin-Chasseur, Les Brigands, Le Défilé and Les Précieuses ridicules. He took part in Les Deschiens from 1993 to 2000. Most of the time he played a small child, the victim of the brutality and narrow-mindedness of his parents or godfather and godmother. During the same period, he played the solo stage role in Adrien, les mémoires, a play written by François Morel. He has also acted in films with Cédric Klapisch, Coline Serreau, Gérard Oury, Manuel Poirier, Marc-Henri Dufresne, Philippe Le Guay, Blandine Lenoir, Étienne Labroue and Jérôme Bonnell, and on television with Thomas Chabrol, Christian de Chalonge, Tonie Marshall, Philomène Esposito and Sam Karmann (ten episodes of the series Les Bougon).

He regularly appears in dramas for France Inter and France Culture directed by Jean-Matthieu Zand, Cédric Aussir, Alexandre Plank, Laure Elgoroff and others. In the 2000s, he teamed up with François Magal to produce short films, two of which were presented in the official selection out of competition at the Cannes Cindy Festival : The Doll Is Mine by Bertrand Bonello and Les Signes by Eugène Green. He also writes and directs documentaries for television, including Paul Reynaud, and Le Temps des grands ensembles. He is a script reader for short and feature films for various commissions, and in particular since 2001 for Canal+'s Collection de courts métrages. Since 2009, he has been artistic adviser to the art house cinema of the Scène nationale La Comète in Châlons-en-Champagne, where he has also been one of the programmers, specialising in short films and retrospectives, of the Waronscreen international film festival since 2013.

In 2011, with François Morel, they adapted the exchanges between Jean-Louis Bory and Georges Charensol that took place at Le Masque et la Plume in the 1960s and 70s. In Instants critiques, directed by François Morel, he plays Jean-Louis Bory with Olivier Saladin as Georges Charensol and Lucrèce Sassella, a young musician and singer. He has since performed in Le Bourgeon by Feydeau, directed by Nathalie Grauwin, and L'Or et la Paille by Barillet and Gredy, directed by Jeanne Herry, at the Rond-Point in March and April 2015.

Romain Vaille was born in 1991. At the age of 16, he decided to start on a musical career. While completing his general studies, he enrolled at the Conservatoire Régional de Bordeaux, where he quickly obtained his DEM with first class honours in the piano classes of Cyril Phélix and then Hervé N'Kaoua. He then continued his studies at the Pôle Supérieur de Paris Boulogne-Billancourt in Michaël Ertzscheid's piano class. He also won prizes at the Ile de France and Brest international competitions.

He also obtained a degree in musicology from the Université Paris Sorbonne. Curious and open to a variety of projects, he also follows Jean-François Novelli in the show Croustilleux La Fontaine. He is also very interested in teaching, and obtained his State Diploma as a piano teacher in June 2017.

Kenza Berrada lives between Morocco and France. From secondary school, the theatre was the territory she chose to explore her questions. She trained as an actress at the Cours Simon and Florent, and also worked with Marcel Bozonnet, Pascal Rambert and Silvia Costa. After completing a literary preparatory course, a degree in modern literature and a master's in cultural mediation, she turned her attention to artistic direction, mainly in the world of catering and festivals. From 2015, she and other actors founded a collective (Le Collectif Nash) to develop more personal work, on the border between theatre, dance and the visual arts. They explore the boundaries and shifts between the real and the imaginary, rethinking the relationship with the audience and language, and addressing social issues. In a process of writing for the stage, they mix texts by authors with individual writing.

She explored African dance with Elsa Wolliatson, set design at the Jacques Lecoq school and directing with Alexander Zeldin, whose work focuses on intimate politics. Boujloud, l'homme aux peaux (Boujloud, the man with skins), currently in production, is a text she wrote and performed alone, based on the question of sexual abuse. A lover of cinema, she met Olivier Broche at a conference on the film "La maman et la putain", where he was invited by director Dorian Rossel. It was the beginning of an artistic collaboration between the two.

She assisted Benjamin Guillard in the play "Moi et François Mitterand" and then, together with Olivier, they performed in the play "Blackbird", directed by Estelle Larrivaz. Finally, she is the set designer and collaborator on Ma vie de ténor (a novel that interests me a great deal), which Olivier is directing.

Emmanuelle Phelippeau-Viallard trained at ENSATT, she first worked as a stage manager at La Maison de la Poésie in Paris, then from 2004 she worked with various companies as a stage manager and/or lighting designer. Over the last few years she has worked with companies including l'Oubli des cerisiers-Nicolas Struve (Ensorcelés par la mort, De la montagne et de la fin), Cie Lara (Le captif amoureux, Don Quichotte), Le Réséda ( Kichinev 1903, Le cabaret de l'austérité), les Productions de l'Explorateur - François Morel (productions since 2011), Olivier Saladin (Ancien malade des hôpitaux de Paris), Olivier Broche (Moi & F. Mitterrand), Daniel Pennac (Bartleby).

In 2006, together with Patrick Zuzalla, she set up the Groupe TIM, which stages plays by contemporary authors such as Thierry Trani, Christophe Tarkos, Alain Badiou and Natacha Michel. She is also assistant director to Patrick Zuzalla for Groupe Tim and to Denise Chalem for Horus Théâtre.
Her most recent lighting design was for the Franco-German collective OST and the show "Gesucht Dulzinea" at the Acker Stadt Palast in Berlin-mitte in February 2020.

She has long been interested in the link between literature and photography, and is currently developing several photographic projects in collaboration with writers. "Ma vie de Ténor" is her first collaboration with Jean-François Novelli.