More and more projects for Xavier de Lignerolles in contemporary music (opera, melodies...). 

Alongside his singing career, he started to conduct contemporary projects : Les Mots Fantômes, by Gérard Zinsstag, Prophéties, by Fabrice Boulanger, Lamento and Deux Motets, by Nicolas Bacri, Magnificat by Stéphane Orlando.

Last year, Xavier de Lignerolles conducted the world creation of Sospiri dei Limbi by Mariana Ungureanu, opera for 4 voices, 3 instruments and electronic, from l'Enfer by Dante. He conducted and sang too the world creation of La Belle Folie, by Denis Bosse, for accordion (Pascal Contet), four voices and narrator, in the Festival Déodat de Séverac, in the Chapelle des Carmélites in Toulouse.

Still last year, Xavier de Lignerolles sang Captain Nemo in the world creation Le Retour du Capitaine Nemo, by Bruno Letort, from the comics by François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters, at the Strasbourg Opera, Delémont BD Festival, Brussels, International BD Festival of Périgueux and at the Quartz (National stage in Brest).

Xavier created Ut Musica Poesis, to develop creations, recitals and operas, with great artists (instrumentalists and singers) : Olympiades Polyphoniques, Triangle Amoureux (with Florent Marie : Luth and theorb), O Sacrum Convivium (sacred pieces, a cappella) and Cantigas de Santa Maria (voices and instruments), in Moissac Abbey and St-Papoul Abbey.