French tenor Olivier Dumait studied singing at the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles and also at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
He has sung as a soloist under the direction of Pierre Boulez, Sir Simon Rattle, Daniel Harding, Myung-Whun Chung, Kazushi Ono, Christophe Rousset, Esa Peka Salonen and Marc Minkowski in such prestigious venues as La Monnaie in Brussels, Covent Garden in London, La Scala in Milan, the Staatsoper in Berlin, the Operas of Amsterdam, Flanders, the Theater an der Wien, the Hermitage Theater in St. Petersburg and the Concertgebouw.
In France, he has sung at the Aix en Provence Festival, the Champs Elysées and Châtelet theaters, the Pleyel hall in Paris and with the operas of Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Lyon, Avignon, Montpellier, Toulon…
He has recorded Roland de Lully with Les talens lyriques, L’Amour masqué de Messager with the Avignon orchestra, The Turn of the Screw (Harding) and From the House of the Dead (Boulez). For Channel 4, he recorded the filmed opera Armida by Judith Weir.
Among his roles: Quint and prologue (The Turn of the Screw), Agenore (Il Re Pastore), Médor (Roland de Lully), The teacher (The Cunning Little Vixen), Gastone (Traviata), Flavio (Norma), Tybalt (Roméo et Juliette), Enée (Dido and Aeneas), The dance teacher and Scaramouche (Ariadne auf Naxos), The convent chaplain (Dialogues des Carmélites), Bois-Rosé (Les Huguenots), Frère Elie (Saint-François d’Assise) and Stravinsky’s Renard, among others.
In concert, he has performed Britten’s Serenade for tenor and horn, Bach’s Mass in B minor, Magnificat and St. Matthew Passion, Mozart’s Requiem and Great Mass in C minor, Schumann’s Paradise and the Peri, Berlioz’s Romeo and Juliet, Messiah, The Creation, Elijah, The Childhood of Christ…
He combines his activities as a singer with teaching, giving singing lessons and English and French phonetics applied to singing and as a language coach (French and English) at the Teatro Real in Madrid.
Since 2022 he has been a professor of English applied to singing at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid.