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Sandrine Piau--soprano
Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg,
Ivor Bolton--conductor
2014
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"Sandrine Piau (born 5 June 1965) is a French soprano. She is particularly renowned in Baroque music although also excels in Romantic and modernist art songs. She has the versatility to perform works from Vivaldi, Handel, Mozart to Schumann, Debussy, and Poulenc. In addition to an active career in concerts and operas, she is prolific in studio recordings, primarily with Harmonia Mundi, Naïve, and Alpha since 2018.
Biography
Born in Issy-les-Moulineaux, she initially studied harp and turned to singing at the Conservatoire de Paris. After meeting William Christie, she commenced her exposure to Baroque music and their collaboration notably at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. She proceeded further vocal studies with Rachel Yakar and René Jacobs.
She collaborated with many of the leading European conductors of the Baroque revival, including Marc Minkowski, Philippe Herreweghe, Paul McCreesh, Alan Curtis, Christophe Rousset, René Jacobs, and Fabio Biondi.
Piau also excels in operatic roles in other eras. She has sung Mozart roles such as Pamina in The Magic Flute, Servilla in La clemenza di Tito, Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail,[1] Donna Anna in Don Giovanni. She has taken up French roles such as Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande, Sister Constance in Dialogues des Carmelites, and made forays into romantic roles including Ännchen in Weber's Der Freischütz, Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff, Wanda in Offenbach's La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, and Sophie in Massenet's Werther.
She participated in an opening concert of the Elbphilharmonie on 12 January 2017, where she sang Berg's Seven Early Songs.[2]
She was named a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2006 by the French government.[3] She won the "Singer of the year" (Artiste lyrique de l'année) in the Victoires de la musique classique in 2009.[4]"; Wikipedia
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