Nicolas Rigas is a French contemporary theatre director,^[1][2] actor, and baritone.^[3][4][5]

Distinguished at the Talents Cannes [fr]^[1][6] in 2002, Rigas plays with Alexandra Lamy in Au suivant!^[7] and Artus de Penguern's Gregoire Moulin vs. Humanity.^[8]

In 2009, on the occasion of years of the Théâtre du petit monde,^[9] he directed Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire amoureux with Delphine Depardieu.^[10] Strengthened by this success and recognized for giving "modernity to the Classics",^[11][1] he set up Le Malade imaginaire at the Grandes Écuries du Château de Versailles [fr]^[12][13][14] from where he will make all his new creations: The Barber of Seville (adaptation of Beaumarchais by Rossini)^[15][16] Les Précieuses ridicules^[17][11] and L'École des femmes by Molière associated with Offenbach's the Tales of Hoffmann.^{[18][19][1][20]}

For the reopening of the Algiers Opera House, he staged Don Giovanni^[21][22] which he also sang. He is Haly in L'italiana in Algeri at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées with Marie-Nicole Lemieux under the direction of Roger Norrington^[23] of which the musicology website says:

Nicolas Rigas's excellent Haly - a very beautiful bass baritone voice well conducted - composes a character of a falsely obsessive and amusingly funny butler.^[24]

He was "Les Quatre Diables" in The Tales of Hoffmann directed by Julie Depardieu^[25][26][27] for Opéra en plein air produced by Tristan Duval [fr], and sang the title role of contemporary opera in The Secret Agent by Michael Dellaira^[28] at the Center for Contemporary Opera in New York and Szeged and the Opéra d'Avignon^{[29][30][31][32][33]}

A multi-faceted lyrical artist, he sings in both operettas, operas bouffe and classical operas in Paris, London, Montreal, New York and Montreal.^{[33][34][35][36][37][38]} and created with Martin Loizillon [fr] and female singer friends, a humorous clip on the circumflex that will make the "buzz" on the Internet and in newspapers, in response to the recommended spelling reform.^{[39][40][41][42][43][44]}

• Nicolas Rigas Archived 2018-03-08 at the Wayback Machine on Opera Musica
• Nicolas Rigas on Opera Online
• Nicolas Rigas chante les 4 diables dans les contes d'Hoffmann d'Offenbach, mise en scène par Julie Depardieu. on YouTube