Jérémie Schütz

Swiss-French tenor Jérémie Schütz has sung Cavaradossi in Puccini’s Tosca at Theater Erfurt, Staatstheater Cottbus, La Seine Musicale, Opéra du Rhône and the Bâtiment des Forces Motrices in Geneva. In 2025, he appeared as Rodolfo in La bohème at Erfurt’s DomStufen-Festspiele and as Calaf in a participatory version of Turandot at Opéra Grand Avignon. His engagements in 2026 include Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly in Chișinău; in August, he sang Faust in a concert performance of Berlioz’s La damnation de Faust at Festival Berlioz with Appassionato under Mathieu Herzog.

Mr. Schütz made his operatic debut at the Grand Théâtre de Genève in 2015 as Rodolphe in Rossini’s Guillaume Tell and Hélénus in Berlioz’s Les Troyens. Subsequent engagements include Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi at Opéra national de Lorraine, Jacopo Foscari in I due Foscari in St. Moritz, and Don José in Carmen in Bordeaux, Eauze and Geneva. He made his staged role debut as Hoffmann in Nancy, while his cover assignments have included Hoffmann at Opéra National de Bordeaux and Werther at Greek National Opera.

During his training at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in 2016/17, Mr. Schütz appeared in productions of Die Entführung aus dem Serail, La traviata, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and La bohème. His work has brought him into collaboration with conductors including Jesús López Cobos, Charles Dutoit, Nello Santi, Daniele Gatti, Evelino Pidò and Marc Minkowski.

On the concert stage, Mr. Schütz has performed a wide range of repertoire, including Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Mendelssohn’s Paulus, Beethoven’s Christus am Ölberge and Ninth Symphony, Mozart’s Requiem, and Ramírez’s Misa Criolla and Navidad Nuestra. His recordings include Mélodies françaises, made in 2016 with the Orchestre Symphonique de Mâcon under Eric Geneste.

Mr. Schütz completed his Master of Arts in voice with Hiroko Kawamichi at the Haute École de Musique in Lausanne in 2015 before continuing his training in Milan. He also worked with Ludovic Tézier and attended masterclasses with Béatrice Uria-Monzon and Renato Bruson. A finalist in the Vincerò Competition in 2022 and a laureate of the Weltner Stiftung in 2016, he received the Contemporary Melody Prize and Young Talent Award at the Symphonies d’Automne International Competition in Mâcon in 2014.