“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 2026/27 season, Julien Ségol will perform the roles of the King of Hearts in Unsuk Chin’s Alice in Wonderland (Opéra de Nice – French premiere), conducted by Léo Warynski; Commendatore/Don Giovanni (Opéra de Lausanne) conducted by Corinna Niemeyer; Publio/La Clemenza di Tito (Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne) conducted by David Stern; Benoît and Alcindoro/La Bohème (Folkoperan Stockholm) with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra; Antinoo/Il ritorno d’Ulisse (Opéra de Massy) with Opera Fuoco; the Monster in Francesca Caccini’s Alcina (Victoria Hall, Geneva) with I Gemelli; and Bluebeard in the premiere of Stéphane Roussel’s Barbablù (II. Paura) (Abbaye de Neumünster, Luxembourg, and Teatro Toledo, Naples). He will also make his debut at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Handel’s Messiah with the Royal Seville Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Martyna Pastuszka.

Julien recently made his debut at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées with the Orchestre National de France, conducted by Clelia Cafiero, as the Duke of Verona/Roméo et Juliette. Other recent engagements include Death/Der Kaiser von Atlantis with the Luxembourg Chamber Orchestra (an ENOA co-production with the Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg); Timur/Turandot (Grand Théâtre d’Avignon); Sarastro and the Speaker/Die Zauberflöte (Opéra de Tours); Dr. Grenvil/La Traviata (Opéra de Biarritz); and Commendatore/Don Giovanni (Teatro Manzoni, Pistoia). He also is the singing voice of Sarastro in the French version of the film The Magic Flute (Florian Sigl, 2022).

In the Baroque repertoire, Julien collaborates regularly with ensembles such as I Gemelli (Emiliano Gonzalez Toro), Opera Fuoco (David Stern), and La Serenissima (Adrian Chandler). He has appeared as Pluto/L’Orfeo at Longborough Festival Opera and the Sociedad Filarmónica de Bilbao, at the Leipzig Bach Festival, and at the Cuenca Sacred Music Festival. This season, he will perform Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine with I Gemelli at the Compesières Festival (Switzerland)

Contemporary music plays a central role in Julien’s artistic activities. He collaborates with Ensemble Contrechamps for a production of Der Kaiser von Atlantis (Comédie de Genève, 2026); created the role of Takao in Butterfly Room Service at the 2024 Royaumont Festival with Ensemble Linéa under Jean-Philippe Wurtz; and portrayed Bluebeard in the world premiere of Stéphane Ghislain Roussel’s Barbablù I. Paura at Teatro Galleria Toledo in Naples (2025). A multidisciplinary artist, Julien enjoys collaborating with choreographers, notably as Wolf in Das neue Rotkäppchen (Su-eun Lee) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin(Tischlerei), and in OperaLab Berlin’s choreographic adaptation of Stockhausen’s Stimmung, presented at the Neue Musik Festival of the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar.

Julien is also a frequent concert performer. He was invited to the 2025 Leipzig Bach Festival with Opera Fuoco; sang the bass solo in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, Op. 80, under Jean-Claude Casadesus with the Orchestre National de Lille (Lille Piano Festival); and performed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 under Bar Avni with the Bayer Philharmoniker and under David Robertson with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin at the Berlin Philharmonie.

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”.