Véronique Gens
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Biography
French soprano Véronique Gens is one of the great Baroque singers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Born in Orléans on April 19, 1966, she studied singing at the Conservatoire and met the American conductor William Christie, who integrated her into his baroque ensemble Les Arts Florissants. Collaborating with Hervé Niquet in the ensemble Le Concert Spirituel, Gérard Lesne with Il Seminario Musicale, Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques and Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre, she tackled the Mozart repertoire with Jean-Claude Malgoire and his orchestra La Grande Ãcurie et la Chambre du Roy in the opera Don Giovanni (1998), then in her first recital Mozart: Airs de Concert et d'Opéras (1998). Alongside her roles in Baroque operas, Véronique Gens, who in 1999 won the Victoire de la musique classique as "Lyric Artist of the Year", recorded for Virgin Classics the albums Handel: Lucrezia - Cantatas (1999), Nuits d'Ãtoiles - Mélodies Françaises (2000), Berlioz: Les Nuits d'Ãté - La Mort de Cléopatre (2001) and the triptych Tragédiennes (2006-2011). In addition to a volume of Canteloube's Chants d'Auvergne for the Naxos label (2005) and a Berlioz - Ravel recital for Ondine (2012), the Orléans-based soprano collaborates with pianist Susan Manoff on Néère (2015), which brings together melodies by Duparc, Chausson and Hahn. This first recording for the Alpha Classics label is followed by Visions (2017), Nuits (2020) and Passion (2021), among multiple productions of operas by Rameau, Saint-Saëns or Gounod. In 2022, the two great Baroque divas Véronique Gens and Sandrine Piau are reunited for the recital Rivales, followed by the premiere of Cantates pour le Prix de Rome and Massenet: Songs with Orchestra. With Hervé Niquet, she records Poulenc's monodrama La Voix humaine, Marais's Ariane et Bacchus (released in 2023), Charpentier's Médée (2024), Desmarest and Campra's Iphigénie en Tauride and Offenbach's recital Les Divas in 2025.
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- Couperin: Laetentur coeli (Motet de Saint Bartélemy) featuring Christophe Rousset
- King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: Song. "No Part of My Dominion" featuring Les Arts Florissants
- King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: Song. "Great Love, I Know Thee Now" featuring Les Arts Florissants
- King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: Song. "Thou Doting Fool" featuring Les Arts Florissants
- King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Chaconne featuring Les Arts Florissants
- Trois Leçons de Ténèbres: Incipit Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae featuring Christophe Rousset
- King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Chorus. "Our Natives not Alone Appear" featuring Les Arts Florissants
- King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: Prelude While Cold Genius Rises - Song. "What Power Art Thou" featuring Les Arts Florissants
- King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Song. "Saint George" featuring Les Arts Florissants
- King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 3: Song. "What Ho! Thou Genius of This Isle" featuring Les Arts Florissants
- King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Trumpet Tune. Warlike Consort featuring Les Arts Florissants
- King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Duet. "You Say 'tis Love" featuring Les Arts Florissants
- King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Song. "Fairest Isle" featuring Les Arts Florissants
- King Arthur : Act 3 Prelude featuring Les Arts Florissants
- King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Song and Chorus. "Your Hay It Is Mow'd" featuring Les Arts Florissants
- King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Trio. "For Folded Flocks, and Fruitful Plains" featuring Les Arts Florissants
- King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: Chorus. "Come, Shepherds, Lead up a Lively Measure" - Hornpipe featuring Les Arts Florissants
- King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Song and Chorus. "Round Thy Coast" featuring Les Arts Florissants
- King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: Duet. "Shepherd, Shepherd, Leave Decoying" featuring Les Arts Florissants
- King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Symphony featuring Les Arts Florissants
- King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: Song and Chorus. "How Blest Are Shepherds" featuring Les Arts Florissants
- King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Song. "Ye Blust'ring Brethren of the Skies" featuring Les Arts Florissants
- King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2: Song and Chorus. "Come, Follow Me" featuring Les Arts Florissants
- King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 5: Trumpet Tune featuring Les Arts Florissants
