Lisandro Abadie, bass-baritone, was born in Buenos Aires. He completed his studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and the Lucerne School of Music and was honoured with the Edwin Fischer Memorial Prize in 2006. Abadie has sung under the direction of renowned conductors such as William Christie, Laurence Cummings, Francesco Corti, Rubén Dubrovsky, Andreas Reize, Václav Luks, Tōnu Kaljuste, Skip Sempé, Paul Agnew, Paul Goodwin and Vincent Dumestre. He has participated in numerous recordings and is also active as a researcher, translator and lecturer in the field of historical performance practice.
Lisandro Abadie was born in Buenos Aires, where he began his vocal studies. He continued his training in Switzerland at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and the Lucerne School of Music and was honoured with the Edwin Fischer Memorial Prize in 2006. Abadie has performed under the direction of renowned conductors such as William Christie, Laurence Cummings, Václav Luks, Francesco Corti, Rubén Dubrovsky, Tōnu Kaljuste, Andreas Reize, Jordi Savall, Paul Agnew, Skip Sempé, Vincent Dumestre and Geoffroy Jourdain.
He has worked with numerous important ensembles, including Les Arts Florissants, Collegium 1704, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Les Talens Lyriques, Le Poème Harmonique, La Tempête, Ensemble Inégal, La Risonanza and a nocte temporis. He has collaborated with the lutenist Mónica Pustilnik and the pianist and composer Paul Suits and has performed several stage projects with the director Benjamin Lazar.
His most recent stage productions include Charpentier's ‘Médée’, Rossini's ‘La Cenerentola’, ‘Arsilda’, Monteverdi's trilogy, ‘Alcione’, ‘Phaëton’, ‘L'Europe Galante’ and ‘Les Fées du Rhin’. Recordings of his interpretations include Handel's ‘Siroe’, Lully's ‘Phaëton’ and ‘Cadmus et Hermione’, Handel's ‘Music for Queen Caroline’, Pasquini's ‘L'ombra di Solimano’ (bass cantatas), Monteverdi's madrigals, ‘Vespro’ and ‘L'incoronazione di Poppea’. A total of around 60 CD and DVD recordings as well as numerous TV and internet broadcasts of his work as a soloist have been documented.
In addition to his stage career, Abadie also devotes himself to research and writing on the history of singing and vocal technique. He is intensively involved in teaching and gives masterclasses with William Christie in Thiré, at the Balthasar Neumann Academy in Fontainebleau and La Habana as well as at conservatories in France and Germany. He is also active at the Monteverdi Madrigal Week in Venice. In 2024, he made his debut at the Opéra de Paris and the Teatro Real in Madrid in Charpentier's ‘Médée’ under the direction of William Christie. He has been teaching at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis since 2019.