The Belgian tenor Guy de Mey studied with Erna Spoorenberg, Sir Peter Pears and Eric Tappy. It all began in 1975 when he won the first prize at the Belgian National Pro Civitate competition. Since then he can look back on an impressive international career with hundreds of concerts and opera performances throughout Europe, the United States, Canada, Israël and Japan. Meanwhile he made his debut at ROH COVENT GARDEN (in Cavalli’s “la Calisto”) and at LA SCALA in Milano in “Katia Kabanova/Tichon” under J.E. Gardiner and “Ariadne auf Naxos” under Jeffrey Tate.
Other engagements since 2006 included guest performances in Zürich (first under J.E. Gardiner in "L'Etoile"/Chabrier and later under Chr. Von Dohnanyi as "Tanzmeister" in “Ariadne auf Naxos” ; at Bavarian State Opera Munich, he appeared in the wolrdcreation of "Alice in Wonderland" by Unsuk Chin, as “Monsieur Triquet” in Kr. Warlikowski’s sensational production "Onegin", in “Idomeneo” and “Ariadne auf Naxos” all under the direction of Kent Nagano and Bertrand de Billy; at Teatro Real de Madrid “Katia Kabanova/Tichon” under Jiri Belohlavek, at De Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam in the “Affaire Makropulos/as Vitek” under Yannick Nézet-Séguin and at Gran Teatro del Liceu, Barcelona in Monteverdi's "Poppea" under Harry Bicket.
More recently, Guy de Mey took part in productions at Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg (Ariadne), at the Grand Théâtre de Genève (Alice in Wonderland, new production directed by Mira Bartov), the Flanders Opera (Onegin), the Opera de Oviedo (Kat’s Kabanova) and returned to ROH Covent Garden to sing the part of “Guillot de Morfontaine” under Antonio Pappano in Manon next to Anna Netrebko and Vittorio Grigolo and on tour to Japan.
In 2011 he appeared amongst others at Opéra natinonal du Rhin in “The Makropulos Case” (as Vitek) directed Robert Carsen and in “Onegin” (as Triquet) at DNO Amsterdam, as well as in concert in Munich and Lucerne under the baton of Mariss Jansons.
Upcoming he will sing “Frick” in Laurent Pelly’s successful production “La vie Parisienne” at Opéra de Lyon, “Tichon” at ONR Strasbourg and “Guilot de Morfontaine” in Opéra de Wallonie, Liège.
He has made more than 50 recordings with reputated conductors (John Eliot Gardiner, Ton Koopman, Roger Norrington, Michel Corboz, William Christie, Jordi Savall, Nicholas McGegan, René Jacobs, Marc Minkowski...). Several of these recordings were distinguished with international prizes (Grand Prix du Disque, Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, Caecilia Axard, Diapason d’Or).
Other highlights in his career are certainly his appearances in Mozart’s “Zauberflöte” and Monteverdi’s “Orfeo” under Roger Norrington at the London Proms and at the English National Opera; Lully’s “Atys” under William Christie at the Paris Opera, in Firenze and New York; Berg’s “Lulu” with Teresa Stratas in a production by Ruth Berghaus, and “Boris Godunov” with José Van Dam at the Brussels Opera La Monnaie; Händel’s “Judas Maccabaeus” with the San Francisco Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; Bach’s “Matthäus Passion” with the Concertgebouw orkest Amsterdam ; Berlioz’ “L’Enfance du Christ” at the Festival of Aix-en-Provence; Scarlatti’s “Mitridate” at the Schwetzinger Festspiele; Debussy’s “Pelléas et Mélisande” at the Nantes Opera ; Berg’s “Lulu” and Janacek’s “The cunning little Vixen” and "Katja Kabanova" at the Flemish Opera (Antwerp/Ghent). Furthermore Guy de Mey appeared with major operas by Monteverdi and Cavalli at New Israeli Opera Tel Aviv, Spoleto Festival USA/Charleston, Bavarian Opera as well as at the Operahouses of Paris and Copenhagen.
Guy de Mey is also well known as a lieder singer. He appeared in recital in Belgium a.o. at the Operas in Brussels and Antwerp, in Germany, France, the Netherlands, in Israel and the USA. Memorable were his interpretations of Schubert’s “Die schöne Müllerin” at the Franz Schubert Festival in Denmark and Schubert’s “Winterreise” at the Flanders Festival.
Since 1995 Guy de Mey has been teaching at the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp.
Cv-update season 2011/2012
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