Benoît Déchelotte

French baritone Benoît Déchelotte has played Moralès and Dancaïre in Carmen,
Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte (Les Escales lyriques), Escamillo in Carmen (St Pauls Opera),
Belcore in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore (Longhope opera), Chairman Walsingham in A feast
in time of Plague by César Cui (Oxford Opera Society), Le Cicérone in Paris, à nous deux! by
Jean Françaix (Guildhall), Ben in Le Téléphone by Menotti and Valentin in Le Petit Faust by
Hervé. Upcoming roles are Count in Le Nozze di Figaro, and Scapin in a new staging of l’île
de Merlin by Gluck, with the Opéra-Comique in Paris.

He is an Oxford International Song festival young artist alongside pianist Sarah Murer,
he also took part in the Philippe Jaroussky Academy in 2022-2023.

Grand prize at the 2023 competition les maîtres du chant, he won the 2nd prize for men
at the Concours international de Canari and 2nd prize at the Edith Poulsen Competition in 2023
; 2nd prize for young artist at the 2022 Concours international des jeunes talents in Normandy.
He was a finalist in the Vivonne competition in 2021.
 

Currently in Artist diploma at the Ecole normale de musique, he trained at the Guildhall
School of Music and Drama in London where he graduated with a MPerf with Samantha Malk
and Stephan Loges, after having studied with Marcin Habela. Various masterclasses have
allowed him to meet Tobias Truniger, Kamal Khan, Julia Bullock, Richard Hetherington, David
Gowland and Craig Terry. During his studies, he was a recipient of the prestigious bursary by
the International Opera Awards Foundation.
Benoît began studying piano at the age of 5 and then the organ with François Ménissier
at the Rouen Conservatory, where he graduated in 2013. Finalist in 2017 at the Grand Prix Jean-
Louis Florentz, he graduated with honors the same year in Eric Lebrun’s studio. He now
performs regularly as a soloist or accompanist.