After his Rossini concert, Florian Sempey shares another of his passions: his enthusiasm for the world of knights and medieval tales. For him, "castles and other ancient buildings exude a mysterious power; their ancient stones have always fascinated me." Ferrum Splendidum (Latin for 'shining metal') is reminiscent of the singer's ancestors, who were blacksmiths in Périgord. Although Sempey was not part of this family tradition, he concentrated instead on forging and shaping the metal of his brilliant baritone voice. Today, he is a sought-after opera soloist at the height of his art and has devised a program that spans a wide range of heroic figures and operas, including Grétry's Richard the Lionheart, Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas, Meyerbeer's Le Pardon de Ploërmel, as well as Tchaikovsky's opera The Sorceress, Wagner's Tannhäuser, excerpts from Carl Orff's famous neo-medieval cantata Carmina Burana and even the premiere recording of a piece by Romain Dumas, Le Chevalier d'Éon, which was composed in 2019. Florian is once again working with the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine and its young maestro Victor Jacob, who was named "Revelation" in the Conductor category at the Victoires de la musique 2023.