Natalie Dessay
French coloratura soprano Natalie Dessay was born Nathalie Dessaix in Lyon in 1965. She simplified her name in homage to Natalie Wood. Dessay emerged on the international scene in the 1990s. A graduate of the Bordeaux Conservatoire, she took first prize in the Premier Prix de Concourse in the France-Telecom Les Voix Nouvelles Competition, and then entered the Paris Opéra's training program for talented young singers, the Ecole d'Art Lyric. After winning the International Mozart Competition of the Vienna State Opera in 1991, she received invitations for concert and recital appearances, most notably an all-Mozart recital on the stage of La Scala. She also made a recital recording with EMI Classics of Mozart arias that was an extraordinary success. Quickly engaged by major opera houses around the world, she sang Blondchen in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Madame Herz in Der Schauspieldirektor, the title role in Zaïde, Adele in Die Fledermaus, and Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos. In 1992, Dessay debuted as Olympia in Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, and in 1993, she sang at the opening of the New Lyon Opéra. In the same year she joined the roster of the Vienna Staatsoper with a triumphant performance as Blondchen. She sang there in an acclaimed production of Tales of Hoffmann with Plácido Domingo, and as Sophie in Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier opposite Anne Sophie von Otter. Another Strauss opera was the vehicle for her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1994, where she sang Fiakermilli in Arabella. Also that year, she added to her credits the Queen of the Night (Mozart's Magic Flute) in the Aix-en-Provence Festival, and the title role of Delibes' Lakmé at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. Dessay enlarged the scope of her repertory in the mid- to late '90s, singing Strauss' rarely heard Die Schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman) on her home stage in Vienna, Stravinsky's Nightingale at the Châtelet under Boulez, and Ophelia in Thomas' Hamlet at the Geneva Opera. Since then she has added Offenbach's Orphée aux Enfers, La Sonnambula, Lucia di Lammermoor, Massenet's Manon, and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro to her repertory. She has made a specialty of Bellini and Donizetti heroines, excelling in roles both comic (La Fille du Regiment) and tragic (Lucia). Her performances in those roles were featured in Live from the Met Simulcasts in 2008 and 2011, respectively. Her recital album, Vocalises, won a Diapason d'Or award and a Classique d'Or RTL in 1998. Despite the need for vocal cord surgery, which put her career on hold from 2002 until 2005, EMI's recording of Lakmé with Michel Plasson conducting and Dessay in the title role won the award for French Recording of the Year at the Victoires de la Musique Classique. Other releases include Offenbach's Orphée and a Mozart aria disc on Virgin. She has recorded both the original French and Italian versions of Lucia di Lammermoor. Her list of awards also includes the Opera News Award and the Laurence Olivier Award (both 2008), and her designation as a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor (2011). In 2013, Dessay retired from live operatic performance (her final role was as Massenet's Manon in Toulouse, France). But she has continued to record, taking on several projects beyond the scope of opera (something she had previously avoided). Her 2013 release, Entre elle et lui, was a duo project with veteran French film composer and jazz pianist Michel Legrand. In 2017, Dessay released Pictures of America, her first English-language album, featuring a program of selections from the Great American Songbook.© TiVo Read more
French coloratura soprano Natalie Dessay was born Nathalie Dessaix in Lyon in 1965. She simplified her name in homage to Natalie Wood. Dessay emerged on the international scene in the 1990s. A graduate of the Bordeaux Conservatoire, she took first prize in the Premier Prix de Concourse in the France-Telecom Les Voix Nouvelles Competition, and then entered the Paris Opéra's training program for talented young singers, the Ecole d'Art Lyric.
After winning the International Mozart Competition of the Vienna State Opera in 1991, she received invitations for concert and recital appearances, most notably an all-Mozart recital on the stage of La Scala. She also made a recital recording with EMI Classics of Mozart arias that was an extraordinary success.
Quickly engaged by major opera houses around the world, she sang Blondchen in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Madame Herz in Der Schauspieldirektor, the title role in Zaïde, Adele in Die Fledermaus, and Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos.
In 1992, Dessay debuted as Olympia in Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, and in 1993, she sang at the opening of the New Lyon Opéra. In the same year she joined the roster of the Vienna Staatsoper with a triumphant performance as Blondchen. She sang there in an acclaimed production of Tales of Hoffmann with Plácido Domingo, and as Sophie in Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier opposite Anne Sophie von Otter.
Another Strauss opera was the vehicle for her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1994, where she sang Fiakermilli in Arabella. Also that year, she added to her credits the Queen of the Night (Mozart's Magic Flute) in the Aix-en-Provence Festival, and the title role of Delibes' Lakmé at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
Dessay enlarged the scope of her repertory in the mid- to late '90s, singing Strauss' rarely heard Die Schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman) on her home stage in Vienna, Stravinsky's Nightingale at the Châtelet under Boulez, and Ophelia in Thomas' Hamlet at the Geneva Opera. Since then she has added Offenbach's Orphée aux Enfers, La Sonnambula, Lucia di Lammermoor, Massenet's Manon, and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro to her repertory. She has made a specialty of Bellini and Donizetti heroines, excelling in roles both comic (La Fille du Regiment) and tragic (Lucia). Her performances in those roles were featured in Live from the Met Simulcasts in 2008 and 2011, respectively.
Her recital album, Vocalises, won a Diapason d'Or award and a Classique d'Or RTL in 1998. Despite the need for vocal cord surgery, which put her career on hold from 2002 until 2005, EMI's recording of Lakmé with Michel Plasson conducting and Dessay in the title role won the award for French Recording of the Year at the Victoires de la Musique Classique. Other releases include Offenbach's Orphée and a Mozart aria disc on Virgin. She has recorded both the original French and Italian versions of Lucia di Lammermoor. Her list of awards also includes the Opera News Award and the Laurence Olivier Award (both 2008), and her designation as a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor (2011).
In 2013, Dessay retired from live operatic performance (her final role was as Massenet's Manon in Toulouse, France). But she has continued to record, taking on several projects beyond the scope of opera (something she had previously avoided). Her 2013 release, Entre elle et lui, was a duo project with veteran French film composer and jazz pianist Michel Legrand. In 2017, Dessay released Pictures of America, her first English-language album, featuring a program of selections from the Great American Songbook.
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Nougaro : Sur l'écran noir de mes nuits blanches
Natalie Dessay
French Music - Released by Sony Classical on Nov 15, 2019
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Baroque
Natalie Dessay
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Warner Classics on Nov 6, 2015
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Haendel : Arias for Cleopatra from 'Giulio Cesare'
Natalie Dessay
Opera Extracts - Released by Warner Classics on Jan 10, 2011
Hi-Res Audio5 de DiapasonThe fact that the role of Handel's Cleopatra includes enough music to fill out a CD, and that, combined with the music's demands for immense virtuosit ...
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Entre elle et lui
Natalie Dessay
Classical - Released by Warner Classics International on Oct 21, 2013
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Natalie Dessay à l'opéra
Natalie Dessay
Opera - Released by Warner Classics on Feb 26, 2021
A good retrospective anthology of Natalie Dessay's career has been needed ever since her retirement from the operatic stage in 2013, and this one fill ...
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Natalie Dessay
Classical - Released by Mariinsky on Jul 25, 2011
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Donizetti: Lucie di Lammermoor
Natalie Dessay
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on Nov 4, 2002
This recording presents a welcome opportunity to hear Donizetti's dramatic masterpiece in its French incarnation of 1839, which, although popular for ...
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La véritable histoire de l'apprenti sorcier (Une introduction à la musique classique)
Natalie Dessay
Stories and Nursery Rhymes - Released by Didier Jeunesse on Oct 7, 2016
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Mozart: Airs de Concert
Natalie Dessay
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on Oct 30, 1995
Mozart's concert arias are not really generically independent from his operas. They were mostly written for insertion into operas by a singer, often M ...
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Schubert
Natalie Dessay
Classical - Released by Sony Classical on Mar 24, 2017
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De l'opéra à la chanson
Natalie Dessay
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Erato - Warner Classics on Nov 17, 2014
French soprano Natalie Dessay has done one thing pretty much better than anyone else out there: dance around in the vocal stratosphere and keep a beau ...
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Natalie Dessay - Mozart Heroines
Natalie Dessay
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on Nov 1, 2000
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Vocalises
Natalie Dessay
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Warner Classics on Mar 15, 1998
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Between Yesterday and Tomorrow (The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary Woman)
Natalie Dessay
Secular Vocal Music - Released by Sony Classical on Nov 17, 2017
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Le lac des cygnes
Natalie Dessay
Stories and Nursery Rhymes - Released by Didier Jeunesse on Oct 18, 2017
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Mozart : Mitridate, Re di Ponte
Natalie Dessay
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on Jan 1, 1999
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Entre elle et lui
Natalie Dessay
Classical - Released by Warner Classics International on Oct 21, 2013
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Airs d'opéras francais
Natalie Dessay
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on Jan 1, 1996
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Casse-Noisette
Natalie Dessay
Stories and Nursery Rhymes - Released by Gallimard Jeunesse Musique on Nov 29, 2019
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Fiançailles pour rire (Mélodies françaises)
Natalie Dessay
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Erato - Warner Classics on Sep 18, 2015
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Histoire de Babar le petit éléphant
Natalie Dessay
Stories and Nursery Rhymes - Released by Didier Jeunesse on Oct 23, 2012
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