After receiving his degree in musicology in 1999 from the University of Nice in France, Mathias Vidal studied singing at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he graduated in 2003. This year, he is a prize-winner of the annual audition of the French Center of Lyric Promotion. In 2007, he is the Adami Classical revelation.

     He rapidly started performing works, from both contemporary and baroque eras, with prestigious ensembles throughout Europe. Since 1998 he has performed many operatic roles, including Frantz and Nathanaël in Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffman, Arnalta in The Coronation of Poppea by Monteverdi - conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm, the Knight of the Force in Les Dialogues des Carmélites by Poulenc in Budapest – conducted by Pascal Rophé, Adraste in Sémélé by Marin Marais to the Festival of Sablé with the Ricercar Consort of Philippe Pierlot. Besides his busy opera schedule, he performs in concerts with ensembles such as Gérard Lesne’s Il Seminario Musicale, Jérôme Corréas’ Les Paladins, Jordi Savall’s La Capella Rejal de Catalunya, Bernard Tétu's Les Solistes de Lyon, Jean-Claude Malgoire’s La Grande Ecurie et La Chambre du Roy, Martin Gester's Le Parlement de Musique, Patrick Cohen-Akenine's Les Folies Françoises and Hervé Niquet’s Le Concert Spirituel.

     In the concert, he notably sings conducted by Jean-Claude Casadesus, Jacques Grimbert, Pascal Verrot, Arie van Beek, Laurent Campellone and with orchestras such as the National Orchestra of Lille, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France.

      In the opera, he is regularly invited to International Festivals such as the Festival of Athens, Musikfestival im Chiemgau in Germany for whom he sang Pedrillo in Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio, Beppe in I Paggliacci by Leoncavallo. In addition, he appeared at the Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne as Sem in Noë by Bizet, Andréa Donato in Haÿdée by Auber, Gontran in Charles VI by Halévy, as well as in Les Caprices de Marianne by Sauguet, he has also performed major roles such as Tamino in the Magic Flute by Mozart in French in Avignon and Cecco in Il Mondo della Luna by Haydn in a tour with Fribourg’s Opera House throughout Switzerland and France (Besançon, Reims, Nice Opera House). In the current 2006-2007 season, he sang Alfredo in Verdi’s La Traviata, Lorenzo in Fra Diavolo by Auber in Metz, Piquillo in La Périchole by Offenbach in Dijon, Pygmalion by Rameau in Houston and Dallas (recorded in New York), Pedrillo in Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio in Saint-Etienne, Brighella in Ariadne auf Naxos by Strauss in Metz. He was chosen by Julia Migenes as being Il Conte d’Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini of his first stage setting for the Akouna’s Open-air Operas in Paris and France.

      During the season 2007/2008, having made the tours of concerts of early music with ensembles of which in Paris to the Theater of Champs Elysees with Le Concert Spirituel and sung the role titles of the Opera Zélindor of Francoeur and Rebel in Versailles and in the casket best-seller of 20 years of the Center of Early Music of Versailles, he was Cecco in a new production of Il Mondo della Luna de Haydn in Rennes, Nantes, Angers, the soloist part of counter tenor in King Arthur of Purcell to the Festival of Montpellier conducted by Hervé Niquet, Il Conte d'Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia of Rossini in Saint-Céré.

     Among his projects, he will participate at Il Barbiere di Siviglia of Rossini on tour with Opéra Eclaté , Il Mondo della Luna of Haydn to the Theater of Luxembourg, King Arthur of Purcell in the National Opera House of Montpellier, a new production of La Périchole of Offenbach in the Opera House of Lille and Macbeth of Verdi in the Opera House of Rennes. He will make one's debut in the Festival of Aix-en-Provence in Orphée aux Enfers of Offenbach conducted by Alain Altinoglu.

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