Cesare, the Italian version of the given name Caesar, may refer to:

• Giuseppe Cesare Abba (1838-1910), Italian patriot and writer
• Cesare Battisti (disambiguation)
• Cesare Borgia (1475-1507), Italian general and statesman
• Joe Cesare Colombo, Italian industrial designer
• Cesare Emiliani (1922-1995), Italian-American scientist
• Cesare Negri, the late Renaissance dancing-master
• Cesare Pavese (1908-1950), Italian poet and novelist
• Cesare Bonizzi, Franciscan monk and heavy metal singer
• Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria (1738-1794), an Italian philosopher and politician
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Sarah Patricia Connolly CBE (born 13 June 1963,^[1] County Durham) is an English mezzo-soprano.

Sarah Connolly was educated at Queen Margaret's School, York and then studied piano and singing at the Royal College of Music, of which she is now a Fellow. She then became a member of the BBC Singers for 5 years.^[2][3]

Sarah Connolly's interest in opera and a full-time career in classical music began after she left the BBC Singers. She began her opera career in the role of Annina (Der Rosenkavalier) in 1994.^[4] Her breakthrough role was as Xerxes in the 1998 English National Opera production of Handel's Serse (Xerxes), directed by Nicholas Hytner.In 2005 she sang Giulio Cesare by Handel for Glyndebourne Festival Opera. The DVD of the production, directed by David McVicar won a Gramophone Award.^[2][5] Her debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden was in March 2009, as Dido in Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.^[6]

During the 2011 Gustav Mahler celebrations, Connolly performed all of his vocal works in the UK and abroad with The Philharmonia and Maazel, The LPO and Jurowski and Nezet Séguin, The LSO with Alsop, The OAE with Rattle and The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Chailly. Committed to promoting new music, her performances include Sir John Tavener's Tribute to Cavafy at the Symphony Hall, Birmingham and his film music to Children of Men. She also made the first commercial recording of Mark-Anthony Turnage's Twice Through the Heart with Marin Alsop and the London Philharmonic Orchestra having previously given the Belgian and Dutch premieres of the work with the Schoenberg Ensemble conducted by Oliver Knussen. She sang the role of Susie in the premiere production of Turnage's opera The Silver Tassie at English National Opera in 2000,^[7] which was subsequently released in a 2002 commercial recording.^[8]

Connolly's other commercial recordings include Schumann lieder with Eugene Asti for Chandos, "Songs of Love and Loss",^[9] Korngold lieder with Iain Burnside, the Duruflé Requiem for Signum and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment^[10] for which she raised the funds and selected the cast for the recording.^[2]

In September 2009, Sarah Connolly made her first appearance as a guest soloist at The Last Night of the Proms, singing Rule, Britannia! while wearing a replica Royal Navy uniform of Lord Nelson.^[11]

She lives with her husband, and their daughter Lily (born in 2003^[4]) in Gloucestershire, the Cotswolds.^[2][3]

Connolly was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours.^[12]

Operatic roles[link]

Royal Opera House[link]

Henry Purcell

• "Dido and Aeneas (Dido)

Welsh National Opera[link]

Richard Strauss

• "Ariadne auf Naxos" (Der Komponist)

Opera North[link]

Gaetano Donizetti

• Maria Stuarda (Maria)

Vincenzo Bellini

• "I Capuleti e i Montecchi" (Romeo)

English National Opera[link]

Vincenzo Bellini

• I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Romeo)

Hector Berlioz

• Les Troyens (Dido)

Benjamin Britten

• The Rape of Lucretia (Lucretia)

George Frideric Handel

• Alcina (Ruggiero)
• Agrippina (Agrippina)
• Ariodante (Ariodante)
• Semele (Ino)
• Xerxes (Xerxes)

Claudio Monteverdi

• L'incoronazione di Poppea (Empress Ottavia)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

• La clemenza di Tito (Sesto) – 2006 Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Opera

Henry Purcell

• Dido and Aeneas (Dido)

Richard Strauss

• Der Rosenkavalier (Octavian)

Mark-Anthony Turnage

• The Silver Tassie (Susie)

Scottish Opera[link]

• Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Octavian)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera[link]

• George Frideric Handel: Giulio Cesare (Giulio Cesare)
• Johann Sebastian Bach: St. Matthew Passion
• Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde" (Brangäne)

La Scala[link]

Henry Purcell

• Dido and Aeneas (Dido)

La Monnaie[link]

Henry Purcell

• "Dido and Aeneas" (Dido)

De Nederlandse Opera[link]

Handel

• "Giulio Cesare" (Giulio Cesare)

Liceu[link]

Monteverdi

• "L'incoronazione di Poppea"(Nerone)

Festival d'Aix-en-Provence[link]

Mozart

• "La Clemenza di Tito" (Sesto)

Roles in the USA[link]

New York City Opera

• Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Romeo)
• George Frideric Handel: Ariodante (Ariodante)
• George Frideric Handel: Xerxes (Xerxes)

Metropolitan Opera

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La clemenza di Tito (Annio)
• Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (The Composer)
• Richard Strauss: Capriccio (Clairon)

San Francisco Opera

• George Frideric Handel: Semele (Ino and Juno)

Recordings[link]

Recordings include:

• Henry Purcell "Dido and Aeneas" Chandos/OAE, 2009
• Frank Bridge Orchestral Songs Chandos/BBCNOW/Hickox, 2005
• Edward Elgar: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Simon Wright The Music Makers / Sea Pictures Naxos. GRAMMY NOMINATED 2006 (Solo Vocal category)
• Edward Elgar: The Very Best of Elgar 8.552133-34
• George Frideric Handel: Giulio Cesare (Glyndebourne, 2006) -- Glyndebourne Festival Opera – OAE / Christie/Opus Arte GRAMMOPHONE AWARD WINNER (Best Early Opera)
• George Frideric Handel: Heroes and Heroines – The Sixteen / Harry Christophers, Coro
• George Frideric Handel: Solomon (Solomon) Harmonia Mundi (2007 release)
• Gustav Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn – OCE / Herreweghe Harmonia Mundi, 2006 EDISON AWARD WINNER (Solo Vocal category)
• Felix Mendelssohn: Songs and Duets Vol. 3 Hyperion, 2004
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Mass in C Minor and Haydn – Scena di Bernice – Gabrieli Consort / McCreesh DG, 2006
• Arnold Schoenberg: BBC Voices - Blood Red Carnations: Songs by Arnold Schoenberg Black Box, 2002
• John Tavener: Children of Men
• The Exquisite Hour – Recital Disc: Songs by Brahms, Britten, Hahn, Haydn (Eugene Asti) Signum Classics, 2006^[13]
• Robert Schumann: Songs of Love and Loss (Eugene Asti) - Chandos, 2008
• Erich Korngold: Sonett für Wien: Songs of Erich Korngold Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), William Dazeley (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano) Signum Classics SIGCD160
• Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les fêtes d'Hébé (Les Arts Florissants & William Christie)- Erato, 1997

References[link]

External links[link]

• Sarah Connolly's - Official Website
• Sarah Connolly (Naxos biography)
• Sarah Connolly mezzo soprano
• Sarah Connolly (Mezzo-soprano)
• Sarah Connolly
• Sarah Connolly
• Sarah Connolly (IMDb)
• BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour - Sarah Connolly (link to radio interview RAM file)
• Mezzo of the Moment - Interview October 2008
• Music Web International article on ENO production of La Clemenza di Tito, 2005
• Music Web International article on Prom 52, 2005, Julius Caesar

Antonello Venditti
Antonello Venditti in 2008
Background information
Born	(1949-03-08) 8 March 1949 (age 63) Rome, Italy
Genres	Pop Pop rock
Occupations	Singer-songwriter
Years active	1971–present
Labels	It RCA Italiana Philips Heinz Music Buena Vista/Walt Disney
Website	www.antonellovenditti.it

Antonello Venditti (born 8 March 1949) is an Italian singer-songwriter who became famous in the 1970s for the social themes of his songs.

Biography[link]

Antonello Venditti was born in Rome, the son of a police commissioner from Molise, who would later become deputy-chief of police in Rome.

He studied piano in his youth and made his debut in the music world in the early 1970s at the Folkstudio of Rome, together with singers like Francesco De Gregori and Giorgio Lo Cascio. In duo with the former he released in 1972 his first LP, Theorius Campus. The LP scored little success, but Venditti at least made himself noted for the strength of his vocal qualities and for his attention to social issues, evidenced by pieces like Sora Rosa which is sung in Roman dialect. Also in dialect was Roma Capoccia, a declaration of love for his city, which later became one of his most famous songs. Curiously, Venditti refused to sing it for several years, as he considered it not politically or socially "engaged" enough.

Venditti subsequently moved to Milan and released L'orso bruno (1973), made in collaboration with musician Vince Tempera; this album included another song in dialect, E li ponti so' soli, but otherwise was marked by an even stronger attention to social themes. His next work, Le cose della vita ("Things of Our Life"), released the same year for the colossus RCA Music, confirmed this tendency. The following LP Quando verrà Natale ("When Christmas Comes") was similar; its even more naked arrangements emphasize the strength of Venditti's denunciation. After a live performance of the song "A Cristo" ("To Christ"), he was denounced by an Italian police officer for blasphemy. Venditti, however, was later totally acquitted.

Although Venditti's use of religious language was not typical of the culture of the left, his manner of life in the late '60s and the '70s was, as he later told the journalist Giampaolo Mattei, a "secular" one: "They were years in which the influence of the left was really strong and the life of us young people then was somewhat orphaned of God. I think it was the everyday life of the time that led me to participate in and embrace certain things. I emerged from that when I realised it was a dead end because it took away people's happiness. Maybe it did give them social growth, but about happiness it had nothing to say. Too much materialism and too little spirituality. A whole generation grew up with that materialism, with certain slogans."^[1]

Venditti's fortunes grew and peaked in 1975, with the LP Lilly. The yearning title-track was another strong accusation, this time against drugs, but it achieved an outstanding success anyway. Other famous pieces in the album were "Compagno di scuola" ("Schoolmate") and the long ballad "Lo stambecco ferito" ("The Wounded Ibex"), the story of a corrupt Northern Italian tycoon. Venditti continued to deal with front-page matters in his next LP, Ullalà (1976), whose "Canzone per Seveso" was about the industrial accident in July that year.

Political involvement, however, had side-effects on Venditti's inspiration in the late 1970s, marked in Italy by the growing menace of terrorism and by the strategia della tensione: some events (like the public booing of his friend De Gregori by politicized fans during a show) forced him to rethink his way of being a public personality. Sotto il segno dei pesci ("(Born) Under Pisces", 1978) contained more personal and intimate themes. The eponymous track scored a great success, but was largely misinterpreted as a song about a woman: it actually referred to Venditti's career, as he was in fact born "under the Pisces sign".

Success was, however, marred by his divorce from his wife Simona Izzo. She won custody of Venditti's son, Francesco Saverio. The following LP, Buona domenica (1979), was strongly marked by this difficult period. It contained, however, several classics, like the title-track and the ballad Modena, which featured Gato Barbieri on saxophone and is considered one of Venditt's finest works.

In 1982 the bitter Sotto la pioggia marked Venditti's passage to his own label, Heinz Music, and the beginning of the long-lasting collaboration with producer Alessandro Colombini. The following year A.S. Roma, his city's football team, won its long-awaited second scudetto: Venditti was therefore called upon to take part in the official celebration show, and the song that he composed for the occasion, "Grazie Roma" ("Thank You Roma"), turned into a great success, surprisingly not just in Rome. Venditti had already composed several songs about his favourite football team; some people criticized them harshly, mostly because of the strong contrast with the political-social themes of his other songs.

In the following years, and notably in the 1990s, Venditti's inspiration seemed to become more mainstream and commercial. His LPs (Cuore, In questo mondo di ladri, Benvenuti in Paradiso, Prendilo tu questo frutto amaro) were very successful, but his former themes were absent, or generally less stressed. Pieces like "Notte prima degli esami" or "Ma che bella giornata di sole" (about the Italian Liberation Day of September 1943) were anyway praised by critics. Among the songs of this period, "Dolce Enrico", from the LP Benvenuti in Paradiso (1991), was dedicated to the former leader of the Partito Comunista Italiano, Enrico Berlinguer, who died in 1984.

Antonello nel Paese delle Meraviglie ("Antonello in Wonderland") of 1997 featured his greatest hits accompanied by the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra of Sofia, directed by Renato Serio. Goodbye Novecento (1999) gave increasing attention to social and historical themes, but had a sub-par success by Venditti's standards. In 2001 A.S. Roma again won a scudetto, and Venditti played again in a free concert in the Circo Massimo for an immense audience of tifosi and lovers of his songs. His latest studio release is Che fantastica storia è la vita ("What a Fantastic Story Life Is", October 2003). Gato Barbieri played with Venditti in this release. After resolving the difficulties in his friendship with Venditti, told in the latter's 1979 song "Scusa Francesco" ("Sorry Francesco"), De Gregori is also present as singer in "Io e mio fratello" ("Me and My Brother"). The album also contains a satire of Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi ("Il Sosia").

In April 2008, in an interview with a Catholic website, Venditti spoke of his faith in Christ, his devotion to Padre Pio and his respect for Pope Benedict XVI, and also mentioned having been assaulted when he was sixteen by a malevolent entity which he identified with Satan.^[2] This led the media to class Venditti with other high-profile show-business converts like Claudia Koll (who was also attacked by a malevolent entity) and Giovanni Lindo Ferretti,^[3] although actually his conversion long predates theirs.^[1][4]

In October 2009 Venditti was criticized for asking, during a concert in Sicily, "Why did God create Calabria?" and declaring that "there is really nothing" in Calabria. Calabria is a region in South Italy. In the past it was colonized by the ancient Greeks and became the cradle of Magna Graecia, but now it is also the base of the modern crime organization 'ndrangheta. Venditti later made peace with Calabria over a cup of good coffee at his house in Rome with the mayor of Reggio Calabria, Giuseppe Scopelliti.^[5]

Soundtracks[link]

Venditti released the soundtrack for the 1985 movie Troppo forte by his friend, the Roman director Carlo Verdone. Verdone also occasionally played drums in Venditti's concerts.

Discography[link]

• Theorius Campus (1972) (With Francesco De Gregori under the collective byname of Theorius Campus)
• L'orso bruno (1973)
• Le cose della vita (1973)
• Quando verrà Natale (1974)
• Lilly (1975)
• Ullalà (1976)
• Cronach (1977)
• Sotto il segno dei pesci (1978)
• Buona domenica (1979)
• Sotto la pioggia (1982)
• Circo Massimo (1983, live)
• Cuore (1984)
• Centocittà (1985, live)
• Venditti e Segreti (1986)
• In questo mondo di ladri (1988)
• Gli anni ’80 (1990, collection)
• Diario (1991)
• Benvenuti in Paradiso (1991)
• Gli anni '70 (1992)
• Da San Siro a Samarcanda – L’amore insegna agli uomini (1992, live)
• Prendilo tu questo frutto amaro (1995)
• Antonello nel Paese delle Meraviglie (1997, live)
• Goodbye Novecento (1999)
• Se l'amore è amore... (2000, collection)
• Magic in the Streets: Parade Memories (2001, track 9 only)
• Circo Massimo 2001 (2001, live)
• Il coraggio e l’amore (2002, collection)
• Che fantastica storia è la vita (2003)
• Campus Live (2005, live)
• Diamanti (2006, collection)
• Dalla pelle al cuore (2007)
• Le donne (2009)
• Unica (2011)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Solegemello, Antonello Venditti-Solegemello-web site
• Vendittando, Venditti blog

Sandrine Piau (b. 5 June 1965 in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France) is an opera soprano. Trained as a harpist, she studied voice at the Collège Lamartine and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique du Paris.

She is best known for her roles in Baroque opera, having worked with William Christie at the Festival international d'Art Lyrique at Aix-en-Provence. She has since 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. She took part in the project of Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir to record the complete vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach.

She was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2006 by the French government.

Recordings[link]

• Les Indes galantes by Rameau conducted by William Christie (1992) Harmonia Mundi
• Castor & Pollux by Rameau conducted by William Christie (1993) Harmonia Mundi
• Messiah by Handel, conducted by William Christie (1994) Harmonia Mundi
• Les Fêtes de Paphos by Mondonville conducted by Christophe Rousset (1997) Polygram
• King Arthur by Purcell conducted by William Christie (1995) Erato
• Rodrigo by Handel, conducted by Alan Curtis (1999) EMI
• Motets by Couperin conducted by Christophe Rousset (1999) EMI
• Serse by Handel, conducted by William Christie (2004) Virgin Classics
• Aci, Galatea e Polifemo by Handel, conducted by Emmanuelle Haim (2004) Virgin Classics
• J. S. Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 15-22 by Bach, conducted by Ton Koopman (2005) Challenge Classics
• Les Illuminations by Britten, conducted by Thomas Zehetmair (2009) NMC

Recitals:

• Mozart: Opera Arias by Mozart, conducted by Gottfried von der Goltz (2002) Astrée
• Sandrine Piau - Handel Opera Seria by Handel, conducted by Christophe Rousset (2005) Naïve
• Vivaldi Edition: Arie d'Opera by Vivaldi, conducted by Federico Sardelli (2005) Naïve
• "Évocation" Songs by Chausson, Strauss, Debussy, Zemlinsky, Koechlin, with Susan Manoff, piano (2007) Naïve
• "Le Triomphe de L'amour", conducted by Jérôme Correas (2012) Naïve

Other:

• Mitridate by Mozart, conducted by Christophe Rousset (1999) Decca
• Mélodies by Debussy (2003) Naïve
• La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein by Offenbach, conducted by Marc Minkowski (2005) Virgin Classics
• The Seven Last Words of Christ by Haydn, conducted by Laurence Equilbey (2006) Naïve

External links[link]

• Radio France bio
• Barnes and Noble profile

See also[link]

• Patricia Petibon
• Mireille Delunsch
• Gaëlle Méchaly
• Natalie Dessay
• Véronique Gens
• Isabelle Poulenard
• Guillemette Laurens
• Noémi Rime

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Natalie Dessay, 2008

Natalie Dessay (French pronunciation: [na.ta.li də.sɛ]) (born Nathalie Dessaix, 19 April 1965, in Lyon) is a French coloratura soprano. She dropped the silent "h" in her first name in honor of Natalie Wood when she was in grade school and subsequently simplified the spelling of her surname outside France. Famous in her earlier career for a very high upper extension, limpid intonation and superb coloratura, Dessay became more recognized in recent years for her dramatic and comedic flair as a singing actress.

In her youth, Dessay had intended to be a ballet dancer, and then an actress.^[1] She discovered her talent for singing while taking acting classes, and shifted her artistic focus to music.^[2] Dessay was encouraged to study voice at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux and gained experience as a chorister in Toulouse. At the competition Les Voix Nouvelles, run by France Télécom, she was awarded First Prize (Premier Prix de Concours) followed by a year's study at Paris Opera's Ecole d'Art Lyrique, where she sang "Elisa" in Mozart's Il re pastore. Also, she entered the International Mozart Competition at the Vienna State Opera, winning First Prize.

She was quickly approached by a number of theatres, and subsequently sang "Blondchen", "Madame Herz" (in Der Schauspieldirektor), "Zerbinetta" and "Zaïde" at the Opéra National de Lyon and the Opéra Bastille, as well as "Adele" in Die Fledermaus in Geneva.

Career[link]

In April and May 1992 at the Opéra Bastille, she sang the role of "Olympia" in The Tales of Hoffmann with José van Dam. The Roman Polanski production was not well received, but it began the road to stardom for Dessay. Although she was soon featured in another production of Hoffmann, it would be over ten years before her return to Paris Opera in the same role. Soon after her Hoffmann run, Dessay joined the Vienna State Opera as Blondchen in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail. In December 1993, she was then asked to replace Cheryl Studer in one of the three female roles in a production of Hoffmann at the Vienna Opera. Her "Olympia" received acclaim from the Viennese audiences and praise from Plácido Domingo.^{[citation needed]}

She attended a performance where Barbara Bonney had sung Sophie in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier under Carlos Kleiber. Dessay was cast in the same role with another conductor. Her hope was to work with Kleiber, but he died before any project came to fruition.^{[citation needed]} Blondchen in Die Entführung and Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos became her best-known and most often played roles.

In October 1994, Dessay made her Metropolitan Opera debut in New York in the role of Fiakermilli in Strauss's Arabella, and returned there in September 1997 as Zerbinetta and in February 1998 as Olympia.

The Staatsoper approached Dessay with two operas: Richard Strauss's Die schweigsame Frau, and Alban Berg's unfinished Lulu. Dessay declined the latter, saying the score was too difficult for her^{[citation needed]}. She admitted that Die schweigsame Frau was already painful to learn.

At the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Dessay first performed the role of the Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute. Although she was hesitant to perform the role, saying that she didn't want to play any evil characters, director Robert Carsen convinced her that this Queen would be different, almost a sister to Pamina. Dessay agreed to do the role, claiming it would be a one-time series of performances. There followed a year-long series of final performances of the Queen of the Night.^{[citation needed]}

During the 2001–2002 season in Vienna, she began to experience vocal difficulties and had to be replaced in almost all of the performances of La sonnambula. Subsequently, she was forced to cancel several other performances, including a French version of Lucia di Lammermoor in Lyon and a Zerbinetta at the Royal Opera House in London. She withdrew from the stage and underwent surgery on one of her vocal cords in July 2002.^[3] In February 2003, she returned to live performances in a Paris concert. Later, she cancelled and had further surgery, but by mid-2005 she was back on stage.

In the summer of 2003, Dessay gave her first US recital in Santa Fe. She was so attracted to New Mexico in general, and to Santa Fe in particular, that Santa Fe Opera (SFO) quickly rearranged its schedule to feature her in SFO's 2004 production of La sonnambula.^[4][5] She returned in the 2006 SFO season as Pamina (The Magic Flute). She gave her first performances in the role of Violetta in La traviata^[1] at SFO on 3 July 2009 in a production staged by Laurent Pelly. Her husband, Laurent Naouri appeared as Germont.^[6]

The 2006/2007 season schedule included Lucia di Lammermoor and La sonnambula in Paris, La fille du régiment directed by Laurent Pelly in London and Vienna, and a Manon in Barcelona. She opened the 2007–08 season at the Met as Lucia and also repeated her role in La fille du régiment.^[7] In January 2009 she sang the part of Melisande in a much acclaimed stagione production of Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy at the Theater an der Wien, the second opera house in Vienna, alongside Laurent Naouri. On 2 March 2009, Dessay sang the title role in La Sonnambula at the New York Metropolitan Opera. It was the first new production of the opera at the Met since Joan Sutherland sang the title role in the 1960s.^[8]

In February 2012, Dessay said in an interview with Le Figaro that she would take a sabbatical from opera performance in 2015.^[9]

Personal life[link]

Dessay is married to the bass-baritone Laurent Naouri, and she converted to his Jewish faith.^[10] The couple has two children.^[1]

Recordings[link]

Dessay provided the singing voice for the character of Anna Sørensen (played by Diane Kruger) in the 2005 movie Joyeux Noël.

DVDs[link]

• The Miracle of the Voice – Greatest Moments on Stage
• Le rossignol (Stravinsky)
• La fille du régiment (Donizetti) – Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Bruno Campanella, BBC 2007
• Hamlet (Thomas)
• Manon (Massenet)
• Les contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach)
• Orphée aux enfers (Offenbach)
• Arabella (R. Strauss)
• La sonnambula (Bellini)
• Pelléas et Mélisande (Debussy)
• Ariadne auf Naxos (R. Strauss)

CDs[link]

• La sonnambula (Bellini)
• Die Zauberflöte (Mozart)
• Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti)
• Orphée aux enfers (Offenbach)
• Les contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach)
• Mass in C Minor (Mozart)^{[clarification needed Great Mass in C minor, K. 427, or Waisenhaus, K. 139 ?]}
• Lakmé (Delibes)
• Mitridate (Mozart)
• Alcina (Handel)
• L'Orfeo (Monteverdi)
• "Vocalise" (Rachmaninov)
• Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno (Handel)
• Magnificat (J. S. Bach) and Dixit Dominus (Handel)
• The Miracle of the Voice
• Delirio – Cantatas (Handel)
• Joyeux Noël (singing voice for the character Anna Sørensen)
• Mozart Heroines
• French Opera Arias
• Amor: Scenes and Lieder (R. Strauss)
• Bach: Cantatas (J. S. Bach)
• Italian Opera Arias (Bellini, Donizetti, and Verdi)
• Mad Scenes (Donizetti, Meyerbeer, Bellini, and Leonard Bernstein)

References[link]

External links[link]

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