Caroline Casadesus

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Caroline Casadesus (born October 30, 1962 ) is a French singer.

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The daughter of the conductor Jean-Claude Casadesus turned to singing after studying history as a student of Yva Barthélémy . With the pianist Bruno Rugutto she performed a broad repertoire of songs by Johannes Brahms , Robert Schumann , Gustav Mahler , Francis Poulenc , Ernest Chausson and Joseph Guy Ropartz . She sang oratorio works by Verdi ( Requiem ), Brahms, Mozart and Fauré and appeared in the great operatic roles of Mozart, Verdi and Puccini . Her repertoire also includes works by contemporary composers such as Dominique Probst , Dominique Préchez , Xavier Goulard and Didier Lockwood . On tours through Europe, Russia and the USA, she performed programs with great opera arias, the Four Last Songs by Strauss , Wagner's Wesendonck-Lieder and the Bachianas brasileiras by Heitor Villa-Lobos .

At the age of 30 she met her future husband, the jazz violinist Didier Lockwood , with whom she worked in the field of improvisational music and, among other things, performed the Omkara program (with the Indian dancer Raghunath Manet ) at the Théâtre de la Gaîté-Montparnasse and in a trio performed with pianist Dimitri Naïditch . With actress Catherine Chevallier she created the show Bella Donna , a mixture of opera, dance, comedy and improvisational music.

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