Opera Lafayette - Ann Monoyios

Tony Boutté enjoys a growing career as a performer of music from the Baroque to the present. In the past several years, Tony has debuted with three important European conductors: William Christie of Les Arts Florissants; Christophe Rousset of Les Talens Lyriques; and Hervé Niquet of Concert Spirituel. He has sung with many of North America’s premiere ensembles, including Opera Lafayette, New York Collegium, Washington Bach Consort, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and Tafelmusik. Boutté has also performed at the Salzburg Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Santa Fe Opera, Bard Festival, Skylight Opera Theater, Schleswig-Holstein Festival and Tage Alte Muzik Regensberg.

In recent years, Mr. Boutté has created roles in six world premieres, including Michael Gordon’s Chaos at The Kitchen (New York City). Boutté has recorded Bach’s St. John Passion with Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra, Carbon Copy Building with Bang on a Can, and has sung in documentaries for the BBC and PBS. He can also be heard on two upcoming recordings: one with Julianne Baird of music from the Jane Austen Songbook; the other of music by Purcell with Brandywine Baroque. Last season Boutté ’s performances included the Bach masterworks B Minor Mass, St. John Passion and St. Matthew Passion with ensembles in New York, New Jersey and Washington DC. He also appeared as soloist in Bach’s Easter and Ascenion Oratorios in a Canadian tour with Les Violons Du Roy. Recent opera projects include Handel’s Acis and Galatea in Ithaca, and roles in Lully’s Acis et Galatée and Sacchini’s Oedipe à Colone with Opera Lafayette.

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