Benabdallah, Yanis
No. 9
Voice type: Tenor/Countertenor
Country: Morocco
Date of birth: 20 January, 1986
The Hungarian-Moroccan tenor was awarded an honour’s degree in Voice at the École Normale de Musique de Paris (Paris Music School) but earned his first music degree as a pianist and choir conductor at Sorbonne University. The world of opera had been quite close to him from his childhood on, as he was member of the Paris Opera Children’s Choir, where from the age of 12, he would often receive solo parts to sing. His adult career in singing began in the world of French operettas. Some years later, he entered the stage of the opera primarily in Mozart’s compositions, like Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, or Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Recently, he has been a guest in Hungarian concert halls as well: in Szeged his featured as Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore and as Don José in Carmen in Müpa, Budapest.
Competition Repertoire
Preliminary
Liszt: Im Rhein, im schönen Strome (H. Heine)
Offenbach: The Ballad of Kleinzach (Il ètait une fois à la cour
d’Eisenach) – Hoffmann’s Aria from Les contes d’Hoffmann
Mozart: Dalla sua pace – Don Ottavio’s Aria from Don Giovanni
Semi-final
Mozart: Se all’impero – Tito’s Aria from La clemenza di Tito
Donizetti: Una furtiva lagrima – Nemorino’s Romance from L’elisir
d’amore
Final
Tchaikovsky: Kuda, kuda, kuda vy udalilis (Where have you gone)
– Lensky’s Aria from Eugene Onegin
Bizet: Flower Song (La fleur que tu m’avais jetée) – Don José’s Aria
from Carmen
Gounod: L’amour! L’amour!... Ah! Lève-toi, soleil! – Roméo’s Cavatina
from Roméo et Juliette