Paul Gaugler studied at the Strasbourg Conservatory, his native town, and graduated at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris. Afterwards he joined the Academies of Ambronay and Royaumont and perfected his skills with Ludovic Tézier, Christian Tréguier and Viorica Cortez. He won prizes in Vincenzo Bellini and Armel Opera competitions.
In 2024, Paul Gaugler was admitted as a member of the Académie d’Alsace des sciences, lettres et arts.
2024 / 2025 : Paul Gaugler sings Don José in Carmen in a China Tour, and with les Voix des Outre-Mer at the Amphithéâtre de l’Opéra de Paris, Bastille, Théâtre de Rungis and at the Sainte-Chapelle, Paris. He is the title role Werther at the Rencontres musicales du Château d’Ainay-le-Vieil. He sings at the Institut de France (hommage à Marc Bloch). He is the Tenor in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony at the Cirque d’Hiver, Paris, and also the Tenor of Earth Home, création of the 9e Symphonie of Wang Ning at UNESCO, Paris. He sings Mozart’s Requiem de Mozart at the Théâtre des Sablons à Neuilly. He gives a Recital with M. Lebègue and R. Lospied at the Auditorium du Grand Cahors. On tour with national company ARCAL, he reprised the title-role in Le Pauvre Matelot.
Paul Gaugler sang Radamès in Aïda and Pollione in Norma (Chisinau National Opera), Don José in Carmen (Lviv National Opera), Faust in La Damnation de Faust (revival at the Glyndebourne Festival), the title role Dante (Opéra de Saint-Étienne), Boris in Katia Kabanova, (Grand prix du Syndicat de la Critique) (Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris and tour), Lenski in Eugene Onegin (Festival Rencontres musicales du château d'Ainay-le-Vieil), Siegfried in an adaptation of The Ring (Opéra de Reims, Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet, Paris), the title role in Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Théâtre de Saint-Dizier), Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos (Royaumont). With the national company ARCAL, he plays the title role in Le Pauvre Matelot and Janik, hero from The Diary of the one who disappeared.
He also sang: Duca di Mantova in Rigoletto (Pilsen Opera, Szeged National Theater), Alfredo in La Traviata (Festival Les Pierres lyriques), Harlekin in Der Kaiser von Atlantis (Aix-en-Provence Grand Theater), Tamino in Die Zauberflöte (Cannes Palace of Festivals), Octavio in L'Europe galante (Ambronay Festival, Vichy, Besançon, San Sebastián opera houses), Erster Jude in Salome (Opéra de Metz), Brabantischer Edler in Lohengrin (Montpellier national opera house); Heinrich der Schreiber in Tannhäuser (Rouen opera house), Ganiet in The Demon (Prix Claude Rostand) by Rubinstein, Junger Diener in Elektra (Bordeaux national opera house).
He creates opera roles: Victor in Guru by Laurent Petitgirard (Szczecin opera house), Charles/Selim in Les Sacrifiées by Thierry Pécou (Arcal tour, Rouen, Massy, Reims opera houses…), Evezhiad in Le Royaume d’Awen by Sylvie Biaggioni (record/book). Paul Gaugler also records for the cinema, the soundtrack of the film Ténor, 2022.
In concert, he sings Verdi's Requiem and Beethoven's 9th Symphony (Saint-Etienne Opera house), la Petite Messe solennelle (Münchner Symphoniker, Les Invalides, Paris), Stravinsky’s Threni (Bastille Opera Amphitheater), the Dvorak’s Requiem (Lviv National Philharmonic), as well as galas (Lviv Philharmonic, Shanghai Symphony Hall, Bastia opera house, Institute of France etc.). He performs in Recital (Institut de France, Lviv National Philharmonic, Bordeaux national opera house, Victoria Memorial Hall in Calcutta, Shanghai Symphony Hall…).
Professional cooperation :
Paul Gaugler has worked with conductors: Gaspard Brécourt, Sylvain Cambreling, Ivan Cherednichenko, William Christie, Paul Daniel, Ayrton Desimpelaere, Nicolae Dohotaru, Pierre Dumoussaud, Samuel Jean, Nicolas Krauze, Lucie Leguay, Mihhail Gerts, David Molard-Soriano, Laurent Petitgirard, Rudolf Piehlmayer, David Reiland, Michael Schønwandt, Paul-Emmanuel Thomas, Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer, and stage directors: Róbert Alföldi, Nicola Berloffa, Dmitry Bertman, Alain Bézu, David Bobée, André Engel, Christian Gangneron, Alain Garichot, Constance-Clara Guibert, Joël Lauwers, Louise Moaty, Julien Ostini, Jean-Romain Vesperini, Halyna Volovetska, Justin Way…
