Étienne Lestringant

French opera singer

Étienne Lestringant is a contemporary French tenor specialising in the baroque repertoire.

Biography

Étienne Lestringant was one of the first members of the baroque ensemble Les Arts Florissants convened by William Christie in Autumn 1979. During the 1980s he was one of the pillars of this ensemble, which was then the spearhead of the baroqueux movement, alongside Agnès Mellon, Jill Feldman, Guillemette Laurens, Monique Zanetti, Dominique Visse, Michel Laplénie, Philippe Cantor, Gregory Reinhart, François Fauché, Antoine Sicot etc.

Étienne Lestringant then sang for 5 years with the "Groupe Vocal de France" and the Clemencic Consort [fr]. More recently, he founded the "Ensemble vocal Frédéric Chopin", a group of amateur singers open to students of the Frédéric Chopin Conservatory of Paris and adults from outside the community.^[1]

Discography (selection)

With Les Arts Florissants

1980: Filius Prodigus H.399 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
1981: Pastorale sur la Naissance de N.S. Jésus-Christ H.483 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
1981: Altri Canti by Claudio Monteverdi
1982: In nativitatem Domini Nostri Jesu Christi canticum [fr] H.414 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
1982: Oratorios (Il pecator pentito, O Cecità del misero mortale) by Luigi Rossi
1982: Antienne "O" de l'Avent by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
1983: Il ballo delle ingrate by Claudio Monteverdi
1984: Airs de cour (1689) by Michel Lambert
1986: Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell (L'Esprit)