Rameau: Le Grand Théâtre de l'amour Sabine Devieilhe

• 1Rameau: Les Indes Galantes: 'Forêts paisibles' (Les sauvages)04:45
• 2Rameau: 'Feuillages verts naissez' (Brunette)01:54
• 3Rameau: Pygmalion: Ouverture02:58
• 4Rameau: Les Paladins: 'Est-il beau?' (Nérine)00:52
• 5Rameau: Les Fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour: Contredanse01:06
• 6Rameau: Les Indes Galantes: 'Viens, Hymen' (Phani)03:53
• 7Rameau: Naïs: 'Je ne sais quel ennui me presse' (Une bergère)03:27
• 8Rameau: Les Boréades: 'Un horizon serein' (Alphise)07:59
• 9Rameau: Les Boréades: Contredanse en rondeau03:16
• 10Rameau: Les Paladins: 'Pour voltiger' (Nérine, Atis)03:41
• 11Rameau: Hippolyte & Aricie: Ritournelle00:53
• 12Rameau: Anacréon: 'Tendre Amour' (Chloé)02:43
• 13Rameau: Zoroastre: Ballet figuré01:26
• 14Rameau: Les Indes Galantes: Scène finale de l'entrée des Incas05:54
• 15Rameau: Zaïs: 'Coulez mes pleurs' (Zélidie)03:44
• 16Rameau: Dardanus: Sommeil04:43
• 17Rameau: Les Indes Galantes: 'Vaste empire des mers' (Emilie)04:18
• 18Rameau: Zoroastre: Air tendre en rondeau01:56
• 19Rameau: Castor et Pollux: 'Tristes apprêts' (Télaïre)05:06
• 20Rameau: Les Fêtes d'Hébé: Tambourins01:40
• 21Rameau: Platée: 'Aux langueurs d'Apollon' (Air de la Folie)05:02
• 22Rameau: Les Indes Galantes: Chaconne05:35
• 23Rameau: Les Indes Galantes: 'Régnez, plaisirs et jeux' (Zima)03:17
• Total Runtime01:20:08

Info for Rameau: Le Grand Théâtre de l'amour

Sabine Devieilhe, the young French lyric-coloratura soprano, is a singer “whose upper register, like her virtuosity, appears limitless, while her verbal sense and dramatic engagement are breathtaking”. A prizewinner in the 2013 Victoires de la Musique Classique, France’s equivalent of the Grammys, she has recorded a ravishing programme of excerpts from operas by Rameau with conductor Alexis Kossenko and his ensemble Les Ambassadeurs.

„My connection with the music of Jean-Philippe Rameau dates back five years. I had just sung Aricie’s famous ‘Rossignols amoureux’ in a student concert at the conservatory when Alexis tapped me on the shoulder and asked if I would like to take part in a performance project involving the composer in whom he specialized. Alexis is well known as a flautist, a young conductor and musicologist and has done research which really brings to light the astonishing range of Rameau’s work. This program is conceived along the lines of a small-scale opera, giving me a broad range of colours to choose from and highly demanding instrumentation with which to work in the dramatic role of tearful lover. I can’t thank Alexis and Les Ambassadeurs enough for having seen the project through and for giving all their energy and musical creativity in the service of this recording.“ (Sabine Devieilhe)

Sabine Devieilhe, soprano
Les Ambassadeurs
Alexis Kossenko, conductor

Sabine Devieilhe
After having studied cello and musicology, Sabine Devieilhe received the First Price unanimously with the congratulations of the jury from the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in 2011. She studied with Jocelyne Chamonin, Martine Surais, Pierre Mervant, Malcolm Walker or Kenneth Weiss, Anne Le Bozec, Susan Manoff and Olivier Reboul.

A Member of several Ensembles like Pygmalion (cond. Raphaël Pichon) and Les Cris de Paris (cond. Geoffroy Jourdain), she performs a large repertory from ancient music to contemporary music. As a fervent of Lied and mélodie, she uses to perform recitals with Anne Le Bozec.

Sabine Devieilhe made her debut on stage as Lucia/Le Viol de Lucrèce at the Paris CNSM followed by Lauretta/Gianni Schicchi (staged by Jean-Michel Fournereau) and Yniold/Pelleas et Melisande (staged by Vincent Vittoz) at the festival Messiaen.

Two striking meetings with Jean-Claude Malgoire and Alexis Kossenko let her approach the baroque repertory from Bach to Rameau, among others at the Utrecht, Bruges Festivals, at the Atelier Lyrique in Tourcoing or at Paris Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.

The 2010-11 season is marked by a new production of L’enfant et les sortilèges with the ONDIF (dir. David Levi), a Bernstein concert at Paris Salle Pleyel with the Orchestre de Paris, a Mozart concert with the Soloists of the Montpellier National Orchestra in Nîmes, a new production of DARDANUS (Ensemble Pygmalion under Raphaël Pichon) at the Beaune International Baroque Music Festival & at the Versailles Opera etc… 2011-12 she approaches the bel canto repertoire singing her first Amina/LA SONNAMBULA with l’Atelier Lyrique in Tourcoing, makes her debut with Les Arts Florissants at Paris Cité de la Musique and performs Bach St John’s Passion with La Grande Ecurie & La Chambre du Roy.

The enthusiasm of her first engagements offers her numerous opportunities : she makes her debut at the Aix-en-Provence Festival as Serpetta/LA FINTA GIARDINIERA (staged by Vincent Boussard, July 2012), performs at the Bruges Festival a Mozart concert with Les Ambassadeurs and Alexis Kossenko…

2012-13 : debut in the title-part of LAKME at the Montpellier Opera ; an Offenbach concerts tour with Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre, Bach Magnificat & Haendel Dixit Dominus with Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel, several Bach programs with Raphaël Pichon at the head of Pygmalion, La Folie/PLATEE under Jean-Claude Malgoire, Queen of the Night/Magic Flute at Lyon National Opera…

As from 2013-14 : she returns to Lyon National Opera for Constance/DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES and make her debuts successively at Paris Opera Comique as LAKME, at Paris National Opera as Queen of the Night/DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE, as well as as Euridyce/ORPHEE ET EURIDYCE at the Brussels La Monnaie Royal Theatre… As from 2014-15, she repeats LAKME at the Toulon Opera, returns to the Opera Comique for Adèle/DIE FLEDERMAUS, makes her debut at Marseille Opera as Nanetta/FALSTAFF and at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival as Fire, Princess and Nightingale in L’ENFANT ET LES SORTILEGES etc.

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