Stéphanie d'Oustrac
Mezzo-soprano Stéphanie d'Oustrac, a protégée of early music conductor William Christie, has specialized in French Baroque opera. She has expanded her repertoire into 19th and 20th century roles as her career has developed.
Stéphanie d'Oustrac was born in Rennes, France, on June 27, 1974. She is a great-niece of Francis Poulenc and Jacques de La Presle and has performed the music of both composers. As a child, d'Oustrac sang in the Maîtrise de Bretagne Children's Choir but, at first, hoped to be an actress and was admitted to the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Rennes. Among her classmates there was Yann Tiersen. The Barbra Streisand film Yentl made her realize that singing and acting together was a possibility, and hearing a recital by mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza sealed her decision to become an opera singer. Enrolling at the Conservatoire national supérieur et de danse de Lyon, d'Oustrac won the school's first prize for song in 1998. A breakthrough in her career came when she was heard by conductor William Christie, the leader of the Baroque opera group Les Arts Florissants and a major force in French early music. Christie cast her in a production of Lully's Thésée at the Baroque Academy of Ambronay in the role of Médée. She landed several other supporting roles before appearing in the title role of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Médée in 2002. In 2005, she made her recording debut on the Eloquentia label with the album The Music of Pergolesi & Porporta.
For some years, d'Oustrac was identified with Baroque opera, especially French, but as the range of the historical performance movement has expanded, so too has d'Oustrac's, and she has performed music by Fauré, Berlioz, and Britten. She has also appeared with L'Arpeggiata, Il Seminario Musicale, Amarillis, and other Baroque chamber groups. She has given recitals around Europe, China, and the U.S. After making several recordings for the Ambronay label, d'Oustrac was signed to Harmonia Mundi and released Sirènes, featuring music by Berlioz, Liszt, and Wagner, in 2019. She followed it up later that year with the album Une Soirée chez Berlioz. In 2021, d'Oustrac moved to the Gramola label for the album La Nuit Étoilée: Hector Berlioz, Augusta Holmès. In 2022, she moved to Alpha and released a pair of albums influenced by vernacular music, Merd'v'là l'hiver: Complaintes des Gens de Rue, and the following year, Mon Amant de Saint-Jean.
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Discography
12 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Mon amant de Saint-Jean
Le Poème Harmonique, Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Vincent Dumestre
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on Aug 25, 2023
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Merd'v'là l'hiver: Complaintes des gens de rue
Les Lunaisiens, Arnaud Marzorati, Stéphanie d'Oustrac
Classical - Released by Alpha Classics on Nov 11, 2022
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Invitation au voyage
Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Pascal Jourdan
Classical - Released by Ambronay Éditions on Oct 20, 2014
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Une soirée chez Berlioz
Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Thibaut Roussel, Tanguy de Williencourt
Mélodies - Released by harmonia mundi on Nov 22, 2019
5 de Diapason24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
La nuit étoilée
Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Orchestre Pasdeloup, Wolfgang Doerner
Classical - Released by Gramola Records on Oct 15, 2021
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Ferveur et extase
Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Ensemble Amarillis, Héloïse Gaillard, Violaine Cochard
Classical - Released by Ambronay Éditions on Oct 25, 2011
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Portraits de la Folie
Héloïse Gaillard, Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Ensemble Amarillis
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on Jun 19, 2020
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Sirènes
Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Pascal Jourdan
Art Songs, Mélodies & Lieder - Released by harmonia mundi on Mar 1, 2019
5 de Diapason24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mélodies
Stéphanie d'Oustrac, François Tillard
Classical - Released by Hurricane Entertainement on Sep 23, 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Franz Joseph Haydn : Arianna a Naxos, Lieder et canzonettas
Cantatas (secular) - Released by Ambronay on Apr 20, 2010
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Maurice Ravel : Orchestral Works, Vol. 4
Opera - Released by SWR Classic on Sep 9, 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Haydn: Arianna a Naxos, Lieder & Canzonettas
Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Aline Zylberajch
Classical - Released by Ambronay Éditions on Apr 20, 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo