The French tenor Cyril Auvity has been central in the generation of younger singers carrying forward the tradition of historical Baroque opera performance begun in Paris by the American-French conductor William Christie. Auvity was born in Montluçon in the Auvergne region in 1977 and has been involved with singing for most of his life. His first professional experiences came as a child, with the Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois, known in English as the Little Singers of Paris. He attended the University of Lille with a double major, studying physics while taking singing cou...