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2021-03-27 12:00:12
The great French soprano takes her leave of the stage with a glittering three-disc retrospective. Elsewhere, moths, musk and birdsong • The French singer and actor Natalie Dessay has stepped away from the operatic stage, alas, but stands out as one of the greatest coloratura sopranos of recent times, especially in the 1990s and 2000s. À l’opéra (Erato) is a three-CD set from across her career, with different companies from the Royal Opera House to Les Arts Florissants to Le Concert d’Astrée. One disc is of French repertoire (Gounod, Meyerbeer, Offenbach), one Italian (Bellini, Verdi, Donizetti) and the last is the rest: including Mozart, Richard Strauss and Stravinsky. Distinguished by a bright, gleaming tone, fiery energy, nimble ornamentation and crisp, verbal dexterity, Dessay excels especially in the three Cleopatra arias from Handel’s Giulio Cesare. Her Chanson d’Olympia from Les contes d’Hoffmann, recorded in 1996, remains a showstopper, as does Caro […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2021-02-23 15:23:24
French ensemble suffers second tragedy in a month
A month ago, the conductor Emmanuelle Haim posted a notice of mourning for the development director of Le Concert d’Astrée, Céline Foucaut, young mother who died of cancer. Today Emmanuelle and Le Concert mourn Jean-Paul Ruault, husband of Patricia Faulon-Ruault, their Executive Director. They say: Ses idées étaient innovantes, singulières, audacieuses, et son enthousiasme ne […]
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2021-01-13 18:12:10
Emmanuelle Haim laments tragic loss
The conductor Emmanuelle Haim has posted a notice of mourning for the development director of Le Concert d’Astrée, Céline Foucaut. Emmanuelle writes: Since 2009, Céline has been making invisible connections between people and creating beautiful, new encounters. Without her, the Concert d’Astrée would not be the same. We think of all her loved ones, her […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2020-06-08 22:09:53
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