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Her first Mozart roles confirmed her remarkable range: Jean-Claude Malgoire directed her as both Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro and Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito. In 1998 she sung a triumphant Donna Elvira under Claudio Abbado in the Peter Brook production of Don Giovanni at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, a performance that led to appearances in major European opera houses and festivals. She has since worked with such orchestras as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de Paris, Rome’s Santa Cecilia, the Lyon Opera Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and with conductors including Claudio Abbado, Charles Dutoit, Frans Brüggen, Louis Langrée, Myung-Whun Chung, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Trevor Pinnock, Sir Neville Marriner, Marek Janowski and Marcello Viotti. Her recent performances include the Countess at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Alcina at the Hamburg State Opera, Donna Elvira in productions at Glyndebourne and at the Liceu, Barcelona, Mélisande in Munich and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Vitellia at the Semper Oper in Dresden, and Fiordiligi at the Teatro Real in Madrid and in Tokyo. She also undertakes concert tours and recitals throughout Europe, and has given recitals at New York’s Lincoln Center and at the Tanglewood Festival.
In 1999 Véronique Gens was elected Singer of the Year by the French ‘Victoires de la Musique’. She has made over sixty recordings, many of them winning international prizes. Her numerous recordings for Virgin Classics include music by Brossard, Galuppi, Pergolesi and Scarlatti with Gérard Lesne, Scarlatti’s La santissima trinità with Fabio Biondi, Orfeo with Emmanuelle Haïm, Don Giovanni with Daniel Harding, a recital of Mozart arias with Ivor Bolton, Berlioz’ Les Nuits d’été with Louis Langrée, and Nuit d’étoiles, a recital of French mélodies by Fauré, Debussy and Poulenc. Her most recent disc Tragédiennes, with Christophe Rousset, celebrates heroines of French opera from Lully to Gluck, which Gramophone has singled out as Best Recital of the year 2006. This fall, Véronique Gens features in Virgin Classics’ release of Mozart’s Mass in C minor, with Natalie Dessay and Le Concert d’Astrée, under the direction of Louis Langrée.
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