24 Facts About Sandrine Piau

Sandrine Piau was born on 5 June 1965 and is a French soprano.

Sandrine Piau is particularly renowned in Baroque music although excels in Romantic and modernist art songs.

Sandrine Piau has the versatility to perform works from Vivaldi, Handel, Mozart to Schumann, Debussy, and Poulenc.

Sandrine Piau proceeded further vocal studies with Rachel Yakar and Rene Jacobs.

Sandrine Piau collaborated with many of the leading European conductors of the Baroque revival, including Marc Minkowski, Philippe Herreweghe, Paul McCreesh, Alan Curtis, Christophe Rousset, Rene Jacobs, and Fabio Biondi.

Sandrine Piau has sung Mozart roles such as Pamina in The Magic Flute, Servilla in La clemenza di Tito, Konstanze in Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni.

Sandrine Piau has taken up French roles such as Melisande in Pelleas et Melisande, Sister Constance in Dialogues des Carmelites, and made forays into romantic roles including Annchen in Weber's Der Freischutz, Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff, Wanda in Offenbach's La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein, and Sophie in Massenet's Werther.

Sandrine Piau participated in an opening concert of the Elbphilharmonie on 12 January 2017, where she sang Berg's Seven Early Songs.

Sandrine Piau was named a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2006 by the French government.

Sandrine Piau won the "Singer of the year" in the Victoires de la musique classique in 2009.

Sandrine Piau appeared in other recordings, which include Andre Caplet: Conte fantastique, Septuor prieres, Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream conducted by Philippe Herreweghe, and Frank Martin's Le Vin herbe conducted by Daniel Reuss.

Sandrine Piau's earliest recording on Virgin Classics was Rameau's Pygmalion with Herve Niquet and his ensemble Le Concert Spirituel.

Sandrine Piau collaborated with Gerard Lesne and his ensemble Il Seminario Musicale in sacred music, including Charpentier: Lecons de tenebres, motets by Alessandro Stradella, Alessandro Scarlatti's cantatas, and his other works such as Stabat Mater.

Sandrine Piau worked with various conductors, including Christophe Coin, Alan Curtis, Christophe Rousset, William Christie, Emmanuelle Haim, Marc Minkowski.

Sandrine Piau has made discography on Naive Records the most, in genres across operas, sacred works, and art songs.

Sandrine Piau appeared in several releases on the Vivaldi Edition: Arie d'Opera, In furore, Laudate pueri, Concerti sacri, Atenaide, La fida ninfa.

Sandrine Piau recorded her first art song solo recital Melodies by Debussy accompanied by Jos Van Immerseel.

Sandrine Piau was featured in mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter's baroque album Sogno Barocco, and cellist Anne Gastinel's Americas, where she sang No 1 and 5 of Villa-Lobos' Bachianas Brasileiras.

Sandrine Piau provided vocals in film soundtracks of The First Cry and Home, both composed by Armand Amar.

Sandrine Piau made occasional appearances on labels such as Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Saphir Productions.

Sandrine Piau can be seen on Opera Rara's 2000 release of Viardot's Cendrillon.

Sandrine Piau collaborated with Paul McCreesh in Haydn's Die Schopfung, released on Archiv Produktion in 2008.

Sandrine Piau interpreted Britten's Les Illuminations in Unknown Britten, joined by Northern Sinfonia conducted by Thomas Zehetmair, released by NMC Recordings in 2009.

Sandrine Piau was featured in "Chagall Duet" on Jon Anderson's 1994 album Change We Must.