Thibault de Damas began playing the flute at an early age. It was during his musicology studies that he discovered opera and vocal music.

Fascinated by this encounter between music, text and theater, he decided to devote himself fully to it. He then joined the Studio de l’Opéra National de Lyon, and became a laureate of the Fondation Royaumont and the Académie de la voix-Fondation des Treilles.

His current engagements take him through a vast repertoire, from Baroque music, which he loves, to contemporary opera, including the operettas of Jacques Offenbach and the Rossinian bouffe repertoire, whose theatrical dimension he particularly appreciates.

These include Count Oscar in Offenbach’s Barbe-bleue at Opéra National de Lyon, Don Bartolo in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Opéra National de Bordeaux, Don Profondo in Il Viaggio a Reims during the Radio Classique « Viva Rossini! » concert at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Lully’s Les Amants magnifiques at Opéra de Limoges under Hervé Niquet, Brander in La Damnation de Faust under François-Xavier Roth.

Recently, Bartolo in Les Fourberies de Figaro at L’Opéra de Nantes and Opéra d’Angers (recording), Dulcamara in Un Elixir d’amour at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (recording), the Doctor in Pelléas et Mélisande at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and in Cologne, conducted by F. X Roth, Polonius in Hamlet at the Opéra de Saint-Etienne, L’Arbre et le Fauteuil in L’Enfant et les sortilèges at the Opéra de Lille, Snug in Midsummer night’s dream at the Opéra de Lille, directed by Laurent Pelly, Wagner in Faust at Opéra de Limoges and Opéra de Vichy, Le Prieur in Massenet’s Grisélidis at Corum de Montpellier and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Wagner and Un Banditore in Louise Bertin’s Fausto at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, conducted by Christophe Rousset, Count Oscar in Offenbach’s Barbe Bleue at the Opéra National de Lyon, Laurent Pelly staging, Agamemnon in La Belle Hélène on tour with Opéra éclaté.

Last season, Fiorello in The Barber of Seville at the Lille Opera, directed by JF. Sivadier, Agamemnon in La Belle Hélène with Opéra éclaté, directed by E. Perez, Snug in Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Lausanne Opera, directed by L. Pelly, the bass part in Schubert’s Mass in A minorwith the Orchestre National d’Ile de France at the Philharmonie de Paris and on tour.

This season, Thibault de Damas is Count Oscar in Offenbach’s Bluebeard at the Lausanne Opera, the Grand Mogol in Offenbach’s Barkouf with Opera rara under the direction of Paul Daniel in Manchester, and Snug in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Seville Opera (directed by Laurent Pelly).

2025-2026