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.
At Salzburg Festival, Cecilia Bartoli shines as Ariodante with her dazzling coloratura in a highly a...
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Inspired by a fable by La Fontaine, [composer Jean-Philippe] Rameau produced perhaps his most brilli...
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Featurette from the Opus Arte DVD of Les Paladins by Jean-Philippe Rameau staged at the Théâtre du C...
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Live performance at the Théâtre du Châtelet in December 2004. Marc Minkowski conducting Les Musicien...
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Serse is perhaps Handel's most intriguing operas. Rediscovered at the 1924 Göttingen Handel Festival...
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At the end of 2013, the year that marked the 50th anniversary of Francis Poulenc’s death, his grippi...
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Founded in 2012 by Laurence Equilbey, the Insula Orchestra performs on period instruments and experi...
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The world premiere of composer Kaija Saariaho's opera, "Innocence", at the 2021 Aix-en-Provence Fest...
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Like Handel’s Orlando (1732) and Ariodante (1734), Alcina derives from the narrative material in Ari...
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Nothing is for forever. And people make mistakes. And yet, letting go is the hardest challenge when ...
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The 2016 Aix-en-Provence Festival presented Mozart’s Così fan tutte in a modern, provocative product...
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Since the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival was founded in 2020, the city of Bayreuth has become a mec...
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Sacred music meets the theatricality of opera in Handel's oratorio Messiah, here conducted by Lauren...
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Discover Ariodante, George Frideric Handel’s Baroque opera, a masterpiece plunging us into the ruthl...
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Prokofiev's enchantingly surreal commedia dell’arte masterwork is turned into a spectacular triumph ...
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