“Plutone (an excellent Julien Ségol) was particularly strong and subtle as played by this talented singing actor.”
Plays to See, 07.2023
“The rich timbre of bass-baritone Julien Ségol is ideal in his three roles: amiable as Berger, imposing as Spirit, it is in the service of Pluto that the young man uses his highly distinctive voice with the greatest impact.”
Anaclase, 07.2023
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This year Julien made his debut at the Longborough Festival Opera as Pluto (L'Orfeo) with the ensemble La Serenissima, directed by Oliva Fuchs, and as Sarastro (The Magic Flute) directed by Jean-François Sivadier and conducted by Emmanuel Olivier (Abbaye de Royaumont), which he also performed with the Labopéra Bretagne and the Orchestre de chambre des Côtés d'Armor conducted by Sébastien Taillard. Other recent stage roles include Death (Der Kaiser von Atlantis) at the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg in an ENOA project conducted by Corinna Niemeyer with the Orchestre de Chambre du Luxembourg, and Baron Gondremark (La Vie Parisienne) at the Nouveau Siècle (Lille) with the Orchestre de Douai.
Julien also performs regularly in concert: as bass soloist in Beethoven's Fantaisie op. 80 under the baton of Jean-Claude Casadesus with the Orchestre de Picardie (Lille Piano Festival), in Beethoven's 9th Symphony conducted by Bar Avni with the Bayer-philharmoniker (Altenberger Dom), under David Robertson with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester (Berlin Philharmonic), in Rossini's Petite Messe solennelle with the Chœur Régional des Hauts-de-France, and in Monteverdi's Vth Book of Madrigals under Geoffroy Jourdain at the Abbaye de Royaumont.
The lied and mélodie repertoire holds an important place for Julien: he is regularly invited in recital with the musicians of the Orchestre de Paris at the Festival 8 de Montcabrier and collaborates with the string quartet of the Tonhain.Kollektiv (Berlin). A multidisciplinary artist with a passion for dance, Julien works with choreographers on contemporary creations, notably the role of Wolf in Das neue Rotkäppchen (Su-eun Lee) at the Berlin Deutsche Oper (Tischlerei), or in the creation by Margaux Marielle-Trehoüart and the OperaLab company of a choreographic version of Stimmung(Stockausen), presented as part of the Neue Musik festival at Deutsches Nationaltheater (Weimar).
Julien is a laureate of the Fondation Royaumont (2023) where he will return in 2024 as a member of the Académie Voix nouvelle; he is also part of the 6th Generation of Opéra Fuoco. He has been awarded several international prizes (Bach Prize from the Académie Internationale de Chant de Saxe, 3rd UFAM Schola Cantorum Prize, FLAME Paris finalist) and has won various scholarships, notably from the Oxenfoord International Summer School, the Académie Vocalis Robert Holl, and the Académie Bel Canto (Wildbad).
After teaching philosophy at university, Julien devoted himself fully to his first passion: the opera stage. Parallel to his academic curiculum at Sciences-Po Paris and the EHESS, he entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Danse et de Musique de Paris (musicology) and continued his vocal training at the Musikhochschule Felix Mendelssohn (Leipzig).
