Patrick Bolleire has always been a music lover and trained as a pianist, but it was not until the age of 27 that he decided to devote himself to a career as a soloist.
After his debut at the Opéra-Studio de l'Opéra National du Rhin, his was called upon by many European theatres. He has performed under the baton of conductors such as Marc Albrecht, Alain Altinoglu, Daniele Callegari, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Mikko Franck, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Louis Langrée, Evelino Pidò, Daniele Rustioni, Alberto Zedda, and Daniel Oren.
Recently, he performed in Guillaume Tell in Paris and Marseille, Pelléas et Mélisande and Robert le Diable in Brussels, Anna Bolena in Bordeaux and Avignon, Le Comte Ory at the Opéra Comique, in Lyon and in Versailles, Manon and Luciadi Lammermoor in Lausanne, Semiramide in Lyon, Paris and Marseille, Macbeth, Zelmira and Guillaume Tell in Lyon, Simon Boccanegra and Hamlet in Avignon, Falstaff in Marseille and Monte-Carlo, Don Carlo in Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Marseille, Lyon and Liege, Don Giovanni in Rouen, Versailles and the Opéra national du Rhin, Der Fliegende Holländer in Lille, Samson et Dalila in Metz and Massy, Les Huguenots at the Opéra national de Paris and in Brussels, Rigoletto in Massy and Liège, Samson et Dalila at the Opéra national du Rhin, Tosca in Marseille and Lille, Roméo et Juliette at the Opéra Comique, Die Entführung aus dem Serail in Marseille, Pelléas et Mélisande in Neuchâtel, Faust in Québec.
Among his recent and future projects: Pelléas et Mélisande in Lisbon, Lille, Caen and with the Orchestre National de France, L'Amour des trois oranges at the Opéra National de Lorraine, Werther in Budapest with the Palazzetto Bru Zane, Il Trovatore in Saint-Étienne, in Marseille, Falstaff at the Nice Opera and in Antibes, Dialogues des Carmélites, Falstaff and Carmen at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège and, in concert, Les Béatitudes by César Franck with the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liege.