Paul Gérimont, known as Paul Gerimon, is a Belgian

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who has an active international career performing in

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and concerts since the eighties.

Biography

Paul Gerimon was born in

Dinant Dinant () is a City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality of Wallonia located in the Namur Province, province of Namur, Belgium. On the shores of river Meuse, in the Ardennes, it lies south-east of Brussels, south ...

( Belgium). Gifted with a deep bass voice, he already sings at the age of 17 years as a soloist at the

Radio Télévision Belge Francophone The ''Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française'' (RTBF, ''Belgian Radio-television of the French Community'', branded as rtbf.be) is a public service broadcaster delivering radio and television services to the French-speaking Comm ...

and then as a bass soloist at the

Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie The Royal Theatre of La Monnaie (french: Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, italic=no, ; nl, Koninklijke Muntschouwburg, italic=no; both translating as the "Royal Theatre of the Mint") is an opera house in central Brussels, Belgium. The National O ...

where he sings during more than 30 years. He is also hired by the company of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie (Liège, 1983-1986). Since 1988, he is invited at the

Festival d'Aix-en-Provence The Festival d'Aix-en-Provence is an annual international music festival which takes place each summer in Aix-en-Provence, principally in July. Devoted mainly to opera, it also includes concerts of orchestral, chamber, vocal and solo instrumental ...

, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, the

Opéra-Comique The Opéra-Comique is a Paris opera company which was founded around 1714 by some of the popular theatres of the Parisian fairs. In 1762 the company was merged with – and for a time took the name of – its chief rival, the Comédie-Italienne ...

in Paris, the

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, the Philharmonie de Strasbourg, the Coliseu de Lisboa, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the

Covent Garden Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. It is associated with the former fruit-and-vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist si ...

–

Barbican Centre The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the City of London and the largest of its kind in Europe. The centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhi ...

in London, the Theater Carré in Amsterdam, the Nuremberg Opera, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, the

Brooklyn Academy of Music The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a performing arts venue in Brooklyn, New York City, known as a center for progressive and avant-garde performance. It presented its first performance in 1861 and began operations in its present location in ...

in New-York... He sings Caronte, Plutone (Pluto), Il Commendatore,

Sarastro ''The Magic Flute'' (German: , ), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a ''Singspiel'', a popular form during the time it was written that includ ...

, Don Basilio, Sparafucile, Colline,... in Nabucco, Tannhäuser, Khovanshchina,

Carmen ''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the Carmen (novella), novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first perfo ...

, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, Die Frau ohne Schatten, The Phantom of the Opera. In Brussels he also performs at the Théâtre National in « Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme » and at the Théâtre de La Balsamine as Don Juan. He also collaborated with

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, Fernando Arrabal and

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. In concert he sings Monteverdi with Les Arts Florissants, the Concerto Vocale, Les Talens Lyriques, and also Bach's Magnificat, Les Sept Paroles du Christ en Croix of Haydn,

Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his ra ...

's Requiem, the Damnation of Faust, Stravinsky's Renard,... He works under the conducting of René Jacobs, William Christie, Christophe Rousset, Richard Egarr, Gianfranco Rivoli, Theodor Guschlbauer, Paul Daniel,

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, Kazushi Ono, Antonio Pappano,... alongside Nelly Miricioiu,

Viorica Cortez Viorica Cortez (born 26 December 1935) is a noted Romanian-born mezzo-soprano, later French by naturalisation. Starting her operatic and concert career in the mid-1960s, she went on to become one of the most prominent female performers of the '7 ...

, Elena Zaremba,

Alain Vanzo Alain Vanzo (April 2, 1928 – January 27, 2002) was a French opera singer and composer, one of few French tenors of international standing in the postwar era. He, along with such singers as Henri Legay and the Canadian Léopold Simoneau, represen ...

Donald McIntyre Sir Donald Conroy McIntyre (born 22 October 1934 in Auckland) is an operatic bass-baritone from New Zealand. Operatic career McIntyre made his formal debut as Zaccaria in ''Nabucco'', at the Welsh National Opera, in 1959. In 1964 he created ...

, Franco Farina, Willard White, José van Dam, Simon Keenlyside,... He performed at the Tercentenary of La Monnaie in front of

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and queen Paola and at the 4th Centenary of the Opera at Palazzo Pitti in Florence with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Plutone in L'Euridice of

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, Worldwide television broadcast). From 2004 till 2010, he is administrator of l'Union des Artistes du Spectacle and URADEX (Related Rights) in Belgium. He is also administrator of Ars Lyrica. In 2013 he sings Caronte (L'Orfeo) at the Barbican Hall (London) with the Academy of the Ancient Music and “The Father” in “Kafka Musical” in 2015. Paul Gerimon is a singing teacher recognized by the Departement of Higher Artistic Education in the French Community of Belgium. He is a vocal coach for the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie and for the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation between 2001 and 2008, and also in the Royal Academy of Music in Liège (2013-2014). He has numerous recordings, videos and awards among which Maximilien Kolbe of

– Dominique Probst (Orphée d'Or of the Académie du Disque Lyrique), L'Euridice of

(Plutone, Maguelone CD), Wo Ma of

Scelsi Giacinto Francesco Maria Scelsi (; 8 January 1905 – 9 August 1988, sometimes cited as 8 August 1988) was an Italian composer who also wrote surrealist poetry in French. He is best known for having composed music based around only one pitch, ...

(Sub Rosa CD), Du Mont with Christophe Rousset (Emi CD - Virgin),

Amor Aeternus ''Amor Aeternus – Hymns of Love'' is a music drama by Nicholas Lens. It is the third part of the operatic trilogy The Accacha Chronicles. The work follows on the parts Flamma Flamma and Terra Terra. In 19 sections, the score combines orchestra, c ...

Nicholas Lens Nicholas Lens Noorenbergh (born 1957) is a Belgian composer of contemporary music, particularly known for his operas. His work is published by Schott Music and Mute Song and distributed by Universal Music Group and Sony BMG. In 2020 Nicholas ...

(Sony CD - BMG Classics), L'Orfeo of Monteverdi with René Jacobs (CaronteLawrence, Richard (March 2007
"...Paul Gérimon, seemingly seated on a billiard table is a menacing Charon..."
alongside the Orfeos of Laurence Dale and Simon Keenlyside, 2 CD's and 2 DVD's Harmonia Mundi, « Best Lyric Show of the Year », « World's Music Shock 2006 », « Caecilia Price 2006 »).

References

External links

Videos showreel - Tv, concerts,...Official website - Paul Gerimon
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