He is a winner of international competitions in Barcelona ("Maria Canals"), and Rio de Janeiro. He has been a guest with all the major European opera houses and festivals, such as the Glyndebourne Festival (Ramiro in Ravel's L'Heure Espagnole), in Hamburg and Oslo (Marcello in Puccini's La Bohême), in Frankfurt (Orestes in Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride), at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London (among other parts Lescaut in Massenet's Manon, Papageno in Mozart's Magic Flute conducted by Colin Davis, Figaro in Rossini's Barbiere di Siviglia). In 1987, the role of Don Giovanni played at the Paris Opera-Comique brought him the French critics' award. For the first time in 1985 he was cast in the role of Pelleas in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, and at once was appointed by critics "the greatest Pelleas of his generation". His wide repertoire covers all Mozart baritone parts, a range of parts from the Italian repertoire (Figaro, Dandini, Malatesta, Marcello), and also baroque opera (title roles of Monteverdi’s Orfeo and Ulisse, Campra's Tancrède and Rameau's Pollux in Castor et Pollux), as well as contemporary opera (Henze's Der Prinz von Homburg in Munich, and World premieres of Birtwistle's Gawain at Covent Garden, and many more). He has recorded EMI, Erato, BMG-RCA, Hyperion and Decca. François Le Roux is artistic Director of the "Académie Francis Poulenc in Tours", and has been artistic director of the "French Song Concert Season of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France" in Paris between 1997 and 2002. His first Book “Le Chant intime”, published by Fayard, about the interpretation of French Song, has been awarded the 2004 René Dumesnil Award by the French National Académie des Beaux Arts. He has been awarded the grade of "Chevalier" in the French National Order of "Les Arts et Lettres"in 1996, and chosen "Musical Personality of the year 1997" by the French Critics Union.