Jean Teitgen studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. He has a vast repertoire that extends from the Baroque (Lully, Rameau and Monteverdi), to the music of the 20th century (Britten, Prokofiev, Berg, Enescu, Stravinsky), via Italian operas (Puccini, Rossini, Donizetti and Verdi), and French opera and comic operas, such as the roles of Arkel in Pelléas et Mélisande, Abimelech in Samson et Dalila, Brother Laurent in Roméo et Juliette, Nourabad in Les Pêcheurs de perles and Scaurus in Les Barbares.

He has performed at the Theater an der Wien, La Monnaie, the ...