After his debut in 2003 at the Opéra de Nancy in Luigi Dallapiccola’s Il prigioniero, Christophe Gay quickly made a name for himself on the main French and international stages: Opéra Comique in Paris, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the opera houses of Lyon, Lille, Nantes, Rouen, Toulon, Avignon and Strasbourg, and also in Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Brussels and at the Glyndebourne Festival.

His broad repertoire includes numerous roles in baroque operas such as Iphigénie en Tauride, L’Orfeo, Platée, Castor et Pollux, Dido and Aeneas, as well as many Mozart operas (Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, Die Zauberflöte). Gay is in demand for 19th and 20th century repertoire including Carmen, Rigoletto, Lakmé, Madama Butterfly, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Wozzeck, Candide, L’Étoile and Les Mamelles de Tirésias.

He appeared recently in La traviata, Yvonne, Princesse de Bourgogne and Iphigénie en Tauride at the Opéra National de Paris, Madame Butterfly in Orange and at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Offenbach’s Barbe-Bleue in Lyon, Carmen at the Opéra National du Rhin, Ariadne auf Naxos in Limoges, Les Mamelles de Tirésias at the Glyndebourne Festival, L’Heure espagnole in Tel Aviv and Roméo et Juliette in Québec.