Clémence de Grandval: Mazeppa Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Mihhail Gerts

• Clémence de Grandval (1828 - 1907): Mazeppa, Act I:
• 1 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act I: Prélude 03:41
• 2 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act I: Ah ! 03:24
• 3 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act I: Ah ! L’aurore se lève 01:41
• 4 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act I: Oui, c’est un cri déchirant 03:03
• 5 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act I: Gloire au vaillant ! 01:51
• 6 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act I: Je suis né dans la Podolie 02:24
• 7 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act I: La Pologne est notre ennemie 05:06
• 8 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act I: Choisir un étranger ! 05:14
• Mazeppa, Act II Premier tableau:
• 9 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act II Premier tableau: Prélude 01:16
• 10 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act II Premier tableau: Veille sur nous 03:20
• 11 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act II Premier tableau: Jeunes filles 03:28
• 12 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act II Premier tableau: Il ne soupçonne rien 02:32
• 13 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act II Premier tableau: Iskra ! près de moi !... 03:27
• 14 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act II Premier tableau: Tu te trompes !... 03:04
• 15 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act II Premier tableau: Eh bien !... oui, je l’aimais ! 02:48
• 16 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act II Deuxième tableau: Marche et Chant triomphal. Gloire à toi, Mazeppa ! 03:57
• 17 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act II Deuxième tableau: Salut ! Salut, ô peuple bien-aimé ! 01:18
• 18 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act II Deuxième tableau: Ô chef, il nous est doux 02:37
• 19 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act II Deuxième tableau: Mais ce n’est pas en roi 02:38
• 20 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act II Deuxième tableau: Il triomphe au milieu du peuple 03:57
• 21 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act II Deuxième tableau: Ah ! que de malheurs 02:15
• 22 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act II Deuxième tableau: Amis, l’on vous trahit ! 02:29
• 23 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act II Deuxième tableau: Frappez ! 02:34
• 24 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act II Deuxième tableau: Oui, Mazeppa nous aime ! 05:03
• Mazeppa, Act III:
• 25 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act III: Prélude 04:21
• 26 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act III: Quelle paisible nuit ! 04:23
• 27 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act III: Quand tu viens m’apparaître 03:17
• 28 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act III: Qu’il est doux d’être unis ! 03:01
• 29 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act III: Fuir, pour toujours ! 02:28
• 30 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act III: Et maintenant, veux-tu toujours 03:09
• Mazeppa, Act IV:
• 31 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act IV: Buvons à nos amours farouches 05:54
• 32 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act IV: Chanson russe. Près de la steppe en fleurs 04:03
• 33 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act IV: Divertissement: I. Entrée 01:04
• 34 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act IV: Divertissement: II. Mazurka 03:06
• 35 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act IV: Divertissement: III. Danse ukrainienne 02:28
• 36 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act IV: Divertissement: IV. La Niéga (Valse) 02:15
• 37 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act IV: Divertissement: V. Finale 01:29
• 38 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act IV: Seigneur, daignez nous secourir ! 02:32
• 39 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act IV: Honte sur vous 03:41
• 40 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act IV: Arrêtez !... 02:29
• 41 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act IV: Anathème. N’appelle pas le peuple ! 04:25
• Mazeppa, Act V:
• 42 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act V: Prélude 01:20
• 43 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act V: La brise est plus douce 03:59
• 44 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act V: Les bluets sont bleus 08:18
• Total Runtime 02:20:49

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Tassis Christoyannis
is highly sought after for roles in Italian and French opera repertoire. He has also built up an outstanding reputation as a French Melody performer.

Born in Athens, he studied piano, singing, conducting and composition at the Athens Conservatoire.

As a member of the Greek National Opera company, he sang Belcore (l’Elisir d’amore), Don Carlos (Ernani), Papageno, Conte Di Luna (Il Trovatore), Figaro (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Guglielmo (Cosi fan Tutte), Eugene Onegin etc…

He worked with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Düsseldorf) singing Posa (Don Carlos), Germont (La Traviata), Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor), Il Conte (Le nozze di Figaro), Don Giovanni, Figaro (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Dandini (La Cenerentola), Taddeo (l’Italiana in Algeri), Silvio (I Pagliacci), Guglielmo (Cosi fan Tutte), Ulisse (Il ritorno di Ulisse in Patria), Pelléas, Oreste (Iphigenie en Tauride), Eugene Onegin, Hamlet.

Performances in recent years include Germont (La Traviata) at La Monnaie in Brussels, Düsseldorf, Nantes, Geneva and at the Glyndebourne Festival, Figaro at the Staatsoper Berlin, Rouen, Geneva, Vienna and Paris, Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor) in Düsseldorf, Tours and Amsterdam, Don Giovanni in Tours and Budapest (cond. Ivan Fischer), Alfonso (La Favorita) in Montpellier, Guglielmo in Las Palmas and Budapest (cond. Ivan Fischer), Posa in Frankfurt and Athens, Ford (Falstaff) in Glyndebourne (V.Jurowski / R.Jones) and Nantes, Oreste (Grétry’s Andromaque) at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and in Brussels, Monfort (Les Vêpres Siciliennes) in Geneva, Valentin (Faust) at the Paris Opera, Macbeth in Bordeaux and Athens, Silvio (I Pagliacci) in Paris, Renato (Un Ballo in Maschera) in Tours, Egée (Gossec’s Thésée) in Liège and Versailles, Danaüs (Salieri’s Les Danaïdes) in Versailles, Marcello (La Bohème) in Paris, Cinq-Mars by Gounod in Munich, Vienna and Versailles, Michele and Gianni Schicchi (Il Trittico) in Tours, Duparquet (Ciboulette) in Paris Opéra-Comique, Yeletsky (The Queen of Spades) in Strasbourg, Chorèbe (Les Troyens) in Geneva, Posa (Don Carlo) and Simon Boccanegra, title role, in Bordeaux, Germont (La Traviata) at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and Athens, Posa (Don Carlo) in Strasbourg, Macbeth in Athens, Le Timbre d’argent (Saint-Saens) at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, Luna (Il Trovatore) in Frankfurt, Gounod’s Le tribut de Zamora in concert in Munich and Versailles, Ford (Falstaff) on tour with the BFO and Ivan Fisher, a concert tour with Saint-Saens’ mélodies in Switzerland and in Italy, Enrico (Lucia), Simone Boccanegra in Athens, Tarare with Les Talents Lyriques at the Theater an der Wien, Versailles, Philharmonie de Paris, Caen, Jephté with the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles in Budapest, Armide with Le Concert Spirituel in Paris, Metz and Bruxelles, Dardanus at the Müpa Budapest, Massenet’s Le Portrait de Manon and Puccini’s Le Villi in concert in Limoges, Don Giovanni in Athènes.

Over the past few seasons, he has sung Wozzeck in Athens, Sharpless (Madame Butterfly) at the Opéra national du Rhin, Campra‘s Idoménée in Lille and at the Staatsoper Berlin, Iago (Otello) in Athens, Abramane (Zoroastre) with Les Ambassadeurs in Namur, Anvers and Tourcoing, Don Andrès de Rebeira (La Périchole) at the Opéra-Comique-Paris, Hilpérick (Saint-Saëns‘ Frédégonde) in Tours, Scarpia (Tosca) in Athens, Polydore by Jean-Baptiste Stuck (title role) and Werther (title role) in Budapest, Agamemnon (Iphigénie en Aulide) and Abramane (Zoroastre) at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Berlioz‘s La Scène héroïque with the Freiburger Kammerorchester, Pollux (Castor et Pollux) in Budapest, Amsterdam and at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Le Diable (Massenet’s Grisélidis) in Montpellier, Nabucco (title role) in Athens, Falstaff (title role) in Lille, Golaud (Pelléas et Mélisande) in Spoleto, Budapest, Hamburg and Vicenza with the Budapest Festival Orchestra (cond. Iván Fischer), Adamas et Apollon (Les Boréades) in Budapest, Paris-Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Helsinki and Amsterdam, Coelénus (Atys) in Avignon, Tourcoing and Paris-Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Golaud (Pelléas et Mélisande) in Toulouse, Agamemnon (Iphigénie en Aulide), Aleko (title role) and Rigoletto (title role in Athens, Mazeppa by Grandval (title role) in concert with Münchner Rundfunkorchester in Munich, Mercure (Psyché by Thomas) à Budapest, Sharpless (Madame Butterfly) at the Festspielhaus Baden Baden and Berliner Philharmonie, Germont (La Traviata) in Geneva…

Tassis Christoyannis has performed in a number of French Melody concerts throughout Europe.

In collaboration with the Palazetto Bru Zane, he has recorded melodies by Camille Saint-Saens, Benjamin Godard, Charles Gounod, Félicien David, Edouard Lalo, and Reynaldo Hahn and César Franck (complete melodies).

His projects for the 2025/26 season and the following ones : Athanaël (Thaïs) IN Toulouse, Scarpia (Tosca), Falstaff (rôle-titre), Germont (La Traviata) and Creonte. (Medea) in Athens, Le Comte de Charolais (Jean de Nivelle by Delibes) in Budapest, Aslar (La Montagne noire by Holmès) in Bordeaux…

Nicole Car
has established herself as one of the leading sopranos of her generation and has become a fixture at many of the top houses around the world. Often praised for her beautiful, rich timbre and her unique musicality, Nicole was recently made a Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres de la république de France.

During the 25/26 season Nicole debuts all three leading heroines in Puccini’s Il Trittico with Wiener Staatsoper and after her successful role debut as Dvořák’s Rusalka at Opera Australia this summer, she brings the title heroine to Opéra National de Paris as well as Wiener Staatsoper. Nicole also returns to her Verdian repertoire by reappearing at The Dallas Opera for Elisabetta in Don Carlo and Deutsche Oper Berlin for Amelia in Simon Boccanegra. She also brings her signature role of Mimì in La bohème to Opéra National de Paris and Wiener Staatsoper. On the concert stage she will be heard as Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes at the Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, as a soloist for a gala concert honoring the memory of Jodie Devos with the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège and will perform Berlioz's Les Nuits d'été with The Finnish National Opera Orchestra.

Career highlights on the operatic stage include Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes for her recent debut with Teatro alla Scala, Amelia in Simon Boccanegra, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni and Elisabetta in Don Carlo at Opéra National de Paris, Desdemona in Otello, Elisabetta in Don Carlo, Antonia in Les Contes d’Hoffman, Blanche in Dialogue des Carmélites and Marguerite in Faust at Wiener Staatsoper, Fiordiligi in Così fan Tutte, Mimì in La bohème and Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes at The Metropolitan Opera, Tatyana in Eugene Onegin and Mimì in La bohème at both the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and the Bayerische Staatsoper, Amelia in Un ballo in maschera at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Elisabetta in Don Carlo & Salomé in Hérodiade at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, as well as Contessa Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro and the title role in Luisa Miller at Opera Australia. Concert highlights include Faure’s La bonne chanson and Chausson’s Chanson perpétuelle with the Ensemble Wien at the Musikverein, Matréna in Mazeppa with the Münchner Rundfunk Orchester, Chausson’s Poème de l'amour et de la mer with the Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by Philippe Jordan and Mimì in La bohème in concert with The Philadelphia Orchestra and The Bravo! Vail Music Festival under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin. In her home country of Australia, her concert appearances have included Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Ah! Perfido, Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, Mahler’s Das klagende Lied and works by Strauss with the Melbourne, Sydney and Queensland Symphony Orchestras as well as to Opera Australia for a Puccini Gala Concert and a Verdi Gala Concert with the Orchestra Victoria in Melbourne.

Nicole’s discography includes two solo albums The Kiss (ABC Classics) with The Australian Opera & Ballet Orchestra and Heroines (ABC Classics) with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. She has also recorded André Messager’s Passionnément (Palazzetto Bru Zane), Massenet: Songs with Orchestra (Palazzetto Bru Zane) and Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem (ABC Classics).

Nicole was the first prize recipient of the 2013 Neue Stimmen Competition and the 2012 Australia Opera Awards and was nominated for Best Young Singer at the 2015 International Opera Awards. She won the Best Female Performer in an Opera category at the 2018 Helpmann Awards. She is currently the co-artistic director of L’Institut Canadien d'Art Vocal (ICAV) alongside her husband, operatic baritone Etienne Dupuis.

Julien Dran
Grandson and son of opera singers, Julien Dran began his musical training at an early age. He studied piano and horn, then voice at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux with Malcolm Walker, Pierre Catala and Lionel Sarrazin, before intergrating the CNIPAL in Marseille for the 2007/2008 season, where he made his stage debut.

He is a prizewinner in several competitions, including the Concours international de chant de Clermont-Ferrand in 2009 and the Julian Gayarre Singing Competition in Pamplona in 2011. He was also honored at the Paris Opera Awards in 2012.

He then went on to perform on numerous French and European stages: Ferrando (Così fan tutte) at the Clermont Auvergne Opéra and the Opéra de Massy, Fenton (Falstaff) at the Opéra de Metz, Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) at the Opéra de Corte, Il Conte Almaviva (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) at the Opéra National de Bordeaux, Edmondo (Manon Lescaut), Ruodi (Guillaume Tell), Bénédict (Béatrice et Bénédict), Antinoüs (Pénélope) and Cinna (La Vestale) at La Monnaie, the title role in Fra Diavolo at the Opéra de Limoges, Matteo Borsa (Rigoletto) at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Lindoro (L'Italiana in Algeri), Nadir (Les Pêcheurs de perles), Arturo (Lucia di Lammermoor) and Kudrias (Katia Kabanova) at the Opéra d'Avignon, Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor) at the Clermont Auvergne Opéra and the Opéra de Massy, Gastone (La Traviata), Matteo Borsa (Rigoletto) and Le Comte de Lerme (Don Carlos) at the Opéra de Paris, Alfred (La Chauve-souris) and Tebaldo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) at the Opéra de Marseille, Alfredo (La Traviata) with Opéra Éclaté, Jeune Horace (Les Horaces de Salieri) in Versailles and at the Theater an der Wien with Les Siècles, Gérald (Lakmé) at the Opéra de Tours, Nadir (Les Pêcheurs de perles) in Limoges and Reims. He also created the role of Tiberius in Dominique Gesseney-Rappo's Carlotta ou la Vaticane in Freiburg.

More recently, he has appeared in Robert le Diable (Raimbaut) at la Monnaie, La Belle Hélène (Pâris) and Orphée aux enfers (Aristée/Pluton) at the Opéra de Lausanne, La Fille du régiment (Tonio) at the Folies d’Ô, the Opéra d'Avignon and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Le Soulier de Satin (Le vice-roi de Naples, Saint-Boniface, Don Ramire) at the Opéra National de Paris, Mireille (Vincent) at the Opéra de Metz, L'Elisir d'amore (Nemorino) and Lucie de Lammermoor (Edgar) at the Opéra de Québec, La Traviata (Alfredo) at the Opéra du Capitole de Toulouse, Faust (title role) and La Dame blanche (Georges Brown) at the Opéra de Limoges, Lakmé (Gérald), Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Belmonte) and Elisabetta Regina d’Inghilterra (Leicester) and La Traviata (Alfredo) at the Opéra de Marseille, L’Éclair by Halévy (George) at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, La Chauve-souris (Alfred) and Faust (title role) at the Opéra de Lille, Guillaume Tell (Arnold) at the Opéra de Lausanne, Les Pêcheurs de perles (Nadir) et the Opéra de Dijon and Faust (title role) at the Opéra Comique.

Among his upcoming projects: Dialogues des Carmélites (Chevalier de la Force) at the Semperoper Dresden, Otello (Cassio) at the Opéra du Capitole de Toulouse, La Bohème (Rodolfo) at the Opéra de Québec, Faust (title part) at La Scala in Milan and in concert, Zampa by Herold in Munich, La Damnation de Faust with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

Mihhail Gerts
Combining expressive charm, clear technique and meticulous attention to detail, Mihhail Gerts has recently drawn attention for successful debuts with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Staatskapelle Dresden, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.

With a passion for the music of his native Estonia, Gerts is Founder and Artistic Director of the TubIN Festival, honouring the work and legacy of Estonian refugee Eduard Tubin. 2025 marks the 120th anniversary of Tubin’s birth and in celebration, Gerts and the festival will explore the composer’s earlier works. Other engagements this season include with Munich Radio Orchestra, Opéra de Saint Étienne and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Last season Gerts conducted RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Munich Radio, Estonian National Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony and Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestras. Other recent highlights include with Latvian National Symphony, Gulbenkian, Ulster and Odense Symphony Orchestras, George Enescu Philharmonic, Dortmunder Philharmoniker and Orchestre National de Pays de la Loire, in repertoire ranging from Monteverdi to world premieres by Signe Lykke and Tovio Tulev, via Bach, Brahms, Ravel, Prokofiev and Arvo Pärt.

Gerts spent his formative years as Resident Conductor of Estonian National Opera (2007–14) during which time he conducted over 40 different productions, followed by a period as Deputy GMD of the Hagen Theater (2015–17). As a guest he has conducted opera productions at Teatro la Fenice, Teatro delle Muse, Opera de St-Etienne and Belarus National Opera, with repertoire ranging from Mozart and Verdi to lesser-known works such as Clémence de Grandval’s Mazeppa.

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