Ludovic Tézier is internationally known as one of the best baritones of his generation. After his studies in Marseille and Paris, he has his first successes in Lucerne, Toulouse, and then Lyon where his international career begins.

Since then, he has established himself as a guest of honour in the biggest operas in the world, such as the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Vienna Opera, the Paris Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, La Scala in Milan, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Royal Opera House in London, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, as well as the Salzburg Festival, the Bregenzer Festspiele, the Glyndebourne Opera Festival, the Chorégies d’Orange and the Savonlinna Opera Festival.

Ludovic Tézier often collaborates with the well-known conductors Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Myung-Whun Chung, Antonio Pappano, Riccardo Muti, Philippe Jordan, Gustavo Dudamel and Riccardo Chailly, as well as many others.

The French baritone gained a certain reputation after outstanding interpretation of great roles by Verdi like Macbeth, Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra, Renato (Un ballo in maschera), Ford (Falstaff), Germont (La Traviata), Posa (Don Carlo) and Don Carlo di Varga (La Forza del Destino). But his vast repertoire also includes title names Hamlet and Eugène Onegin as well as Count Almaviva (The Marriage of Figaro), Werther (baritone version), Yeletsky (The Queen of Spades), Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Scarpia (Tosca), Amfortas (Parsifal) and Athanaël (Thaïs).

One of the highlights of his career was his first role as Iago (Othello) at the Vienna State Opera as well as his role as Conte di Luna (Il Trovatore) at the Teatro Real in Madrid, but also as Athanaël (Thaïs) in Monte-Carlo and Paris, Amonasro (Aida) and Germont (La Traviata) at the Paris Opera.

Other remarkable roles: Marc-Antoine (Cléopâtre) at the Salzburg Festival and at the Théâtre des Champ-Élysées in Paris, Alphonse XI (La Favorite) at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Escamillo (Carmen), Conte di Luna (Il Travatore) in Paris, Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor) in Munich, Paris and London, Sir Riccardo Forth (I Puritani) and Carlo Gérard (Andrea Chénier) at the Opera Australia in Sydney, Don Carlo (Ernani) at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo and Amonasro (Aida) in concert in Rome conducted by Antonio Pappano, then recorded for Warner Classics.

In 2022/23, he will be in a new production of Hamlet at the Paris Opera, where he made a name for himself as Don Carlo in Forza del Destino. His roles in new productions of Aida and Trovatore at the Royal Opera House in London and his return at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in a concert opera of Othello top this season off. In the summer of 2023, he performed at the 100^th edition of the Verona Opera Festival.

In 2023/2024, Ludovic Tézier is Scarpia at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He goes to Madrid as Rigoletto then as Germont in La Traviata in Bastille. He sings Carmina Burana at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées before coming back to the Opéra Bastille in March as Simon Boccanegra.

Amongst his main recordings are AIDA (CD) published in 2015 by Warner Classics, and Carmina Burana (“Live from the Forbidden City”) published on CD and DVD by Deutsche Grammophon at the beginning of 2019. His first album of aria solo by Verdi, published in February 2021 by Sony Classical, was very well received by the press. With tenor Jonas Kaufmann, he records the album Insieme – Opera Duets was also published by Sony Classical in October 2022.