Sandrine Piau Soprano

Gramophone -Editor’s Choice, January 2005 -Händel ‘Opera Seria’

““Piau and Rousset achieve the perfect synthesis of elegance, extravagance and emotion. I yearned for them to continue with the rest of the opera after each cruelly brief extract. This is without a doubt the finest recital of Handel arias I have heard.” – David Vickers, Gramophone.

A renowned figure in the world of baroque music, French soprano Sandrine Piau performs regularly with such celebrated conductors as William Christie, Philippe Herreweghe, Christophe Rousset, Gustav Leonhardt, Sigiswald Kuijken, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Paul McCreesh, Tom Koopman, René Jacobs, Marc Minkowski, Fabio Biondi, Michel Corboz, Josep Pons and Louis Langrée.

She embraces both the lyric and Baroque repertoire, and performs roles such as Pamina from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Titania from Britten's A Midsummer Nights Dream, Cleopatra from Handel’s Gulio Cesare as well as Servilia from Gluck’s La Clemenza di Tito.

Concert engagements take her around the world. Recent invitations include the Mostly Mozart Festival, Lincoln Center New York, the Berliner Philharmoniker, l’Orchestre de Paris…

Her stage projects include new productions of Pelléas et Mélisande and Der Rosenkavlier as well as invitations for Handel and Mozart.

Sandrine records exclusively for Naïve records. Her award winning Handel and Mozart recitals met with universal critical acclaim. Her first recital disc with piano was dedicated to Debussy’s melodies and her most recent release titled, Evocations is an eclectic Franco-German programme picked from melodies and lieder evoking women in various guises.

Ms Piau records exclusively for Naïve records.

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