Sandrine Piau

Sandrine Piau

Birthday: 1965-06-05

Place of Birth: Issy les Moulineaux, France

Biography: Sandrine Piau (born 5 June 1965) is a French soprano. She is particularly renowned in Baroque music although also excels in Romantic and modernist art songs. She has the versatility to perform works from Vivaldi, Handel, Mozart to Schumann, Debussy, and Poulenc. In addition to an active career in concerts and operas, she is prolific in studio recordings, primarily with Harmonia Mundi, Naïve, and Alpha since 2018.

Movies

Ariodante
Ariodante

At Salzburg Festival, Cecilia Bartoli shines as Ariodante with her dazzling coloratura in a highly a...

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Les Paladins
Les Paladins

Inspired by a fable by La Fontaine, [composer Jean-Philippe] Rameau produced perhaps his most brilli...

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Les Paladins by Jean-Philippe Rameau or Baroque that Rocks
Les Paladins by Jean-Philippe Rameau or Baroque that Rocks

Featurette from the Opus Arte DVD of Les Paladins by Jean-Philippe Rameau staged at the Théâtre du C...

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La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein
La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein

Live performance at the Théâtre du Châtelet in December 2004. Marc Minkowski conducting Les Musicien...

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Serse
Serse

Serse is perhaps Handel's most intriguing operas. Rediscovered at the 1924 Göttingen Handel Festival...

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Mozart solennel
Mozart solennel

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Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmelites
Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmelites

At the end of 2013, the year that marked the 50th anniversary of Francis Poulenc’s death, his grippi...

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Thamos, König in Ägypten
Thamos, König in Ägypten

Founded in 2012 by Laurence Equilbey, the Insula Orchestra performs on period instruments and experi...

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Kaija Saariaho: Innocence
Kaija Saariaho: Innocence

The world premiere of composer Kaija Saariaho's opera, "Innocence", at the 2021 Aix-en-Provence Fest...

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Alcina
Alcina

Like Handel’s Orlando (1732) and Ariodante (1734), Alcina derives from the narrative material in Ari...

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Così fan tutte
Così fan tutte

Nothing is for forever. And people make mistakes. And yet, letting go is the hardest challenge when ...

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Così fan tutte
Così fan tutte

The 2016 Aix-en-Provence Festival presented Mozart’s Così fan tutte in a modern, provocative product...

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Sandrine Piau & Les Talens Lyriques  Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival 2024
Sandrine Piau & Les Talens Lyriques Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival 2024

Since the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival was founded in 2020, the city of Bayreuth has become a mec...

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Handel's Messiah - Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival
Handel's Messiah - Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival

Sacred music meets the theatricality of opera in Handel's oratorio Messiah, here conducted by Lauren...

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Handel's Ariodante
Handel's Ariodante

Discover Ariodante, George Frideric Handel’s Baroque opera, a masterpiece plunging us into the ruthl...

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The Love for Three Oranges
The Love for Three Oranges

Prokofiev's enchantingly surreal commedia dell’arte masterwork is turned into a spectacular triumph ...

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