Natalie Dessay

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Natalie Dessay at an autograph session, July 31, 2008

Natalie Dessay (born April 19, 1965 in Lyon ; actually Nathalie Dessaix ) is a French opera singer ( coloratura soprano ).

Dessay grew up in Bordeaux . Originally she wanted to be a dancer, but studied acting and singing at the conservatory in Bordeaux. In 1985 she graduated with a first prize. In 1989 she won second prize in the Concours des Voix Nouvelles, which was held for the first time, and then went on to study at the Paris Opera.

repertoire

In 1992 she sang Olympia in Hoffmann's Tales at the Opéra Bastille (she also sang the role, for example, in the production for the reopening of the Lyon Opera in 1993 and in her debut at La Scala ). The following year she had her first engagement at the Vienna State Opera (Blondchen in the Abduction from the Seraglio ). In 1994 she sang Queen of the Night in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Aix-en-Provence Festival , conducted by William Christie in a production by Robert Carsen.

In the 2001/2002 season she was canceled from most performances at the Vienna State Opera due to illness. In 2001 she sang Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor for the first time . In February 2003 she had a successful comeback in Paris and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York . In 2004 she sang Amina in La sonnambula by Bellini for the first time , and her concert recording from Lyon in 2006 was also released on CD. Also in 2004 she sang Manon von Massenet for the first time , which was released in 2007 by Virgin Classics (with Rolando Villazón ).

On April 1, 2007 she sang Marie in Gaetano Donizetti's La fille du régiment at the Vienna State Opera (premiere). For the first time she sang Violetta Valéry in the Traviata in Santa Fe under Laurent Pelly and in 2011 in Aix-en-Provence and Vienna, in 2012 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

In June 2013 Natalie Dessay announced in an interview that she would soon retire from the opera stage and would only appear as an actress in the future. The main reason she gave was that there were no longer adequate opera roles for her age and her vocal subject.

Since then she has increasingly turned to chanson . Her album Entre elle et lui (avec Michel Legrand) was released on October 20, 2013 . She gave a joint concert with Michel Legrand on June 11, 2014 in the orangery of the Palace of Versailles .

Private life

Natalie Dessay is married to the baritone Laurent Naouri . You have two children.

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Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
FR FR MOVE BE W
2000 Mozart heroines FR57 (6 weeks)
FR 		-
2002 Donizetti: Lucie de Lammermoor FR150 (1 week)
FR 		-
2003 Airs d'opéras français FR71 (9 weeks)
FR 		-
2004 Amor - Richard Strauss: Opera Scenes & Songs FR92 (11 weeks)
FR 		-
2005 Trade: Delirio - Le concert d'Astrée FR54 (13 weeks)
FR 		-
2006 Mozart: Mass In C FR102 (6 weeks)
FR 		-
with Véronique Gens , Topi Lehtipuu , Luca Pisaroni , Le Concert d'Astrée & Louis Langrée
Le miracle d'une voix FR21 (63 weeks)
FR 		BE W88 (6 weeks)
BE W
2007 Bellini - La Sonnambula FR132 (2 weeks)
FR 		-
Airs d'opéras of Italy FR30 (22 weeks)
FR 		-
2008 Bach: Cantatas FR33 (16 weeks)
FR 		-
with Emmanuelle Haïm
2009 Scenes de la folie FR65 (11 weeks)
FR 		-
2011 Cleopatra - Handel FR32 (6 weeks)
FR 		-
with Emmanuelle Haïm & Le Concert d'Astrée
Bellini Donizetti Verdi Italian Opera Arias FR172 (1 week)
FR 		-
2012 Debussy: Clair de lune FR129 (3 weeks)
FR 		-
with Philippe Cassard , Karine Deshayes, Catherine Michel & Le Jeune Chœur de Paris
2013 Entre elle et lui FR7 (21 weeks)
FR 		BE W76 (14 weeks)
BE W
2014 Rio Paris FR36 (12 weeks)
FR 		BE W113 (4 weeks)
BE W
with Agnès Jaoui , Helena Noguerra & Liat Cohen
De l'opéra à la chanson FR77 (8 weeks)
FR 		-
2015 Baroque FR145 (3 weeks)
FR 		-
2016 Pictures of America FR56 (6 weeks)
FR 		-
2017 Michel Legrand: Between Yesterday And Tomorrow FR105 (5 weeks)
FR 		-
2019 Nougaro: Sur l'écran noir de mes nuits blanches FR54 (8 weeks)
FR 		BE W136 (1 week)
BE W

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
FR FR MOVE BE W
2013 Les moulins de mon coeur FR185 (1 week)
FR 		-
with Michel Legrand

Awards

Web links

Commons : Natalie Dessay  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Natalie Dessay on 'Becoming Traviata' — French Soprano bids' Adieu' to opera stage. examiner.com on June 12, 2013, accessed June 29, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b Chart sources: FR BEW
  3. ↑ Parliamentary question regarding the award of the Austrian professional title Kammersänger . (Resolution date November 25, 2009 to November 24, 2014). Retrieved September 19, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Dessay, Natalie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dessaix, Nathalie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon , France