[1] From age eight to seventeen he sang with the Petits Chanteurs de Bordeaux [fr], a youth choir devoted to church music.
In 2004, in his first class with Lionel Sarrazin, himself a new teacher, was thunderstruck to discovery a repertoire and range of possibilities that immediately convinced him that he would become a singer.
He speaks of his experience in that program with enthusiasm: "I feel like a sort of spokesperson, proud to say that I come from a house that trained me and to which I owe a lot."
He has credited his two years there for providing him with an intensive training and practical experience in many small roles that proved critical to launching his career.
[6][7] He has received consistently high praise for his work in Paris, for example as Lyonnel in Chausson's Le roi Arthus in May 2015.
Le Point later wrote that his opening in the Chausson made the audience forget the starring singers (Thomas Hampson and Roberto Alagna) who were yet to appear: "In five minutes of quietly sighing chivalrous ideals, Stanislas de Barbeyrac established himself in the big leagues.
He obviously had what we notice and will no longer forget, a timbre, a well-spoken manner, a color of sensitivity which comes immediately into the voice, a personality.