Julien Debreuil

Baritone

In February 2008, Julien Debreuil covers the role of Devilshoof, Chief of the Gypsies, in The Bohemian Girl.

Julien Debreuil received his musical education as a chorister at Chichester Cathedral, and then through lessons with Henry Herford at School. He went on to study with Adrian Thompson at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and with Peter Savidge at the Royal College of Music. He was a member of the Welsh National Opera Company Chorus directly after college, and performed in Don Carlos, Der Fliegende Holländer, Tosca, Mazeppa, Don Giovanni and La Damnation de Faust. During this time he studied with Ryland Davies.

Upon leaving WNO in Summer 2006, Julien started a career as a baritone soloist and has since sung in opera, concert, and recital in the Stockholm City Concert Hall, Eglise St. Marie Pau-Pyrérées, St. John Smith Square, The Wigmore Hall, Truro Cathedral, Southwark Cathedral, Petersfield Music Festival, Aberdeen Festival Hall, Christ Church Cathedral, Blenheim Palace, Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Birmingham Hippodrome, Welsh Millienium Centre, Buxton Opera Festival, on BBC4 for the Buxton Music Festival, Dartington Opera School, St. Andrew’s Holborn, St. Stephen’s Gloucester Road, St. Georges Beckenham, St. Mary’s Brighton, St. Paul’s Covent Garden, St. Andrew’s Toulson and St. James’ Sussex Gardens in London. Julien currently studies with Patrick MacGuigan.