Jean-Paul Fouchécourt is a French tenor, mostly as an opera singer. He was born on 30 August 1958 at Blanzy in the Burgundy region. He is best known for singing French Baroque music, especially the parts called in French haute-contre, written for a very high tenor voice with no falsetto singing.
2015
Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Jennifer Larmore, Philippe Bach.
The haute-contre was the primary French operatic tenor voice, predominant in French Baroque and Classical opera, from the middle of the seventeenth century until the latter part of the eighteenth century.
Jélyotte in the title-role of Rameau's Platée, by Charles-Antoine Coypel c.1745