Baritone | Vocal Coach

Fady Jeanbart is a Lebanese baritone, vocal coach at the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music and Elias Rahbani Music Academy, and winner of the third prize at the Leopold Bellan Competition.

He began his vocal studies in Lebanon with Garo Jaderian and Penny Pavlakis before moving to France, where he graduated from the E.N.M. de Pantin and the E.N.M. de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Throughout his training, he worked with several acclaimed coaches, including Blandine de Saint Sauveur, Jean-Louis Dumoulin, Günther Leib, Raphael Sikorski, and Agnès de Brunhoff.

His operatic repertoire includes roles such as Piquillo in Offenbach’s La Périchole, Bob in Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief, Officer Blangy and the Khedive Representative in André Messager’s Coups du Roulis, Monsieur Loyal and Pastor Kimball in Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera, the Journalist in Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias, Monostatos in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, and John the Butcher in Vaughan Williams’ A Cotswold Romance, among many others.

As a concert soloist, he has appeared in major cantata and oratorio works including Bach’s cantatas, Schubert’s Mass in G, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Fauré’s Requiem, and Brahms’ A German Requiem. In 2022, he created the role of Judas in the Arabic oratorio From Supper to Resurrection by Elie Chahoud and Lara Jokhadar.

More recently, he performed the role of Moralès in Bizet’s Carmen at the Baalbeck International Festival in July 2025 under the baton of Toufic Maatouk. In December 2025, he created the role of Shaddad in Rahi and Tarabay’s Arabic opera Antar wa Abla at Zayed Sports City, conducted by Brian Holman. In March 2026, he appeared as Maestro Spinelloccio and Il Notaio in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi at the Al Bustan Festival, conducted by Gianluca Marcianò and featuring Bryn Terfel in the title role.

His artistic collaborations include performances alongside singers Dominique McCormick, Joyce El-Khoury, Julie Nesrallah, Lara Jokhadar, Marie Josée Matar, and Stéphane Sénéchal, as well as conductors André Malouli, Hisham Gabr, Joe Daou, Manfred Müssauer, Yasmina Sabbah, Garo Avessian, and Henri Ghoraieb. He has also performed with ensembles including the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra, Les Cordes Résonnantes, and the BA Chamber Orchestra.

Alongside his performing career, he is widely recognized for his extensive research on the rediscovered works of Wadia Sabra (1876-1952), founder of the Lebanese Conservatory and composer of the Lebanese National Anthem. In 2021, he edited and published two volumes dedicated to Sabra’s French operas and piano works, later continuing this work with Sabra’s 1927 Arabic opera The Two Kings.

He subsequently expanded his research to the archives of Wadia Sabra’s adoptive daughter, Badia Sabra Haddad (1923-2009), one of Lebanon’s most renowned singing teachers. He currently serves as Head of the Library and Music Archive at the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music.