“Bass Julien Ségol lends Timur the noble authority of age and experience, whether in the depth of his timbre or the dignity of his posture.”

Ô Lyrix, 01.2025

“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 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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For the 2025/26 season, Julien will make his debut at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées with the Orchestre National de France(conducted by Clelia Cafiero) in the role of the Duke of Verona (Roméo et Juliette). He will also sing Count Capulet (Roméo et Juliette) at the Opera de Oviedo, the Bass part in a staged version of The Messiah at the Opéra de Limoges and Clermont-Ferrand, Pluto (L’Orfeo) with I Gemelli at the Sociedad Filarmónica de Bilbao, The Death (Der Kaiser von Atlantis) at the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg and the Grand Théâtre de Genève, as well as Benoît and Alcindoro (La Bohème) with the ensemble Opera Fuoco (Paris)

Julien was recently acclaimed for at the Longborough Festival Opera in the role of Pluto (L’Orfeo) with the ensemble La Serenissima, in a production directed by Olivia Fuchs, as well as in the role of Death (Der Kaiser von Atlantis) at the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg in an ENOA project staged by Stéphane Roussel, conducted by Corinna Niemeyer with the Luxembourg Chamber Orchestra. He has also been heard as Dr. Grenvil (La Traviata, Gare du Midi, Biarritz), Timur (Turandot, Grand Théâtre d’Avignon), Sarastro and the Speaker (Die Zauberflöte, Opéra de Tours), Publio (La Clemenza di Tito, Opéra de Massy), and the Commendatore (Don Giovanni, Teatro Manzoni, Pistoia). He is the vocal double for Sarastro in the French version of the film The Magic Flute (Florian Sigl, 2022).

Julien regularly performs in concert: he appeared in the 2025 edition of the Bachfest Leipzig with Opera Fuoco, sang the bass solo in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy under Jean-Claude Casadesus with the Orchestre National de Lille (Lille Piano Festival), in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony under Bar Avni with the Bayer-Philharmoniker, and under David Robertson with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester at the Berlin Philharmonie. Lied and art song hold an important place for Julien: he is a regular guest in recital with musicians of the Orchestre de Paris at the Festival 8 de Montcabrier and collaborates with the Tonhain.Kollektiv string quartet (Berlin).

Contemporary music also plays a major role in Julien’s artistic activity. He created the role of Takao in Butterfly Room Service at the 2024 Royaumont Festival with Ensemble Linéa (conducted by Jean-Philippe Wurtz); he sang Bluebeard in the premiere of Barbablù I. Paura by Stéphane Ghislain Roussel at the Teatro Galleria Toledo in Naples (2025). A multidisciplinary artist, Julien enjoys collaborating with choreographers, notably as the Wolf in Das neue Rotkäppchen (Su-eun Lee) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Tischlerei), or in the choreographic version of Stockhausen’s Stimmung created by Margaux Marielle-Trehoüart and the OperaLab company, presented at the Neue Musik Festival of the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar. This season, under the direction of Lodie Kardouss, he takes part in a choreographed version of Handel’s Messiah at the Opéra de Limoges.

After teaching philosophy at university, Julien Ségol has devoted himself fully to his first passion: the operatic stage. Alongside his academic studies at Sciences-Po Paris and the EHESS, he entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (musicology), and continued his vocal training at the Musikhochschule Felix Mendelssohn (Leipzig). A multiple laureate of the Fondation Royaumont, Julien Ségol is a member of the Académie Voix Nouvelles 2024 and joined the 6th generation of Opera Fuoco’s Atelier Lyrique. He has received distinctions in various international competitions (3rd Prize UFAM Schola Cantorum, FLAME Paris finalist…) and has benefited from numerous scholarships, including the International Academy of Oxenfoord (Malcolm Martineau), the Vocalis Academy (Robert Holl), and the Bel Canto Academy (Wildbad). He holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Paris Diderot and the Marc Bloch Centre (Berlin), entitled “The malleable Body: a symbolic Revolution. Aesthetic and social Transformations of the Body in France and Germany, 1900-1933”.