Nicholas Teste, bass-baritone, was born in France. His repertoire includes Giorgio in I puritani (Bellini), Colline in La boheme (Puccini), Abimelech in Samson et Dalila (Saint-Saens), Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti), Mephistopheles in Faust (Gounod), Alvise in La gioconda (Ponchielli), Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Marcel in Les Huguenots (Meyerbeer), Nourabad in Les Pecheurs de Perles Bizet and others. He performs at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and in the opera houses of Paris, Munich, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Berlin, Naples, Geneva, Venice and others. This is his Israeli Opera debut.