Sisters Karine Deshayes, Delphine Haidan, Orchestre national Avignon-Provence & Debora Waldman

• Gioachino Rossini (1792 - 1868): Otello:
• 1 Rossini: Otello: Sinfonia 08:09
• La Donna del Lago, Act I:
• 2 Rossini: La Donna del Lago, Act I: Vivere io non potrò (Elena, Malcolm) 03:26
• Pauline Viardot (1821 - 1910): Le dernier sorcier, VWV 2002, Act II:
• 3 Viardot: Le dernier sorcier, VWV 2002, Act II: Pourrais-je jamais aimer une autre femme? 02:35
• Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 - 1787): Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30, Act I Scene 4:
• 4 Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30, Act I Scene 4: Amour, viens rendre à mon âme (Orphée) 05:35
• Pauline Viardot: Les Monts de Géorgie, VWV 1037:
• 5 Viardot: Les Monts de Géorgie, VWV 1037: No. 2, Dans les plaines de Géorgie 02:14
• Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869): Les Troyens, H. 133, Act I Scene 4:
• 6 Berlioz: Les Troyens, H. 133, Act I Scene 4: Les chants joyeux (Didon, Anna) 09:54
• Louise Bertin (1805 - 1877): Fausto:
• 7 Bertin: Fausto: Ouverture 09:35
• Gioachino Rossini: Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra, Act II:
• 8 Rossini: Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra, Act II: No. 8, Non bastan quelle lagrime (Elisabetta, Matilde) 03:16
• Vincenzo Bellini (1801 - 1835): I puritani, Act II Scene 7:
• 9 Bellini: I puritani, Act II Scene 7: Qui la voce sua soave (Elvíra) 06:08
• Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30, Act III Scene 1:
• 10 Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30, Act III Scene 1: J'ai perdu mon Euridice (Orphée) 03:43
• Clémence de Grandval (1828 - 1907): Mazeppa, Act III:
• 11 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act III: Entracte. Le Jardin de Kotchoubey 04:11
• 12 Grandval: Mazeppa, Act III: Divertissement No. 3, Danse Ukrainienne 02:05
• Gioachino Rossini: Semiramide, Act II Scene 7:
• 13 Rossini: Semiramide, Act II Scene 7: Giorno d'orror (Semiramide, Arsace) 07:11
• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921): El Desdichado - Boléro:
• 14 Saint-Saëns: El Desdichado - Boléro 03:24
• Total Runtime 01:11:26

Info for Sisters

Maria Malibran nicknamed ‘La Malibran’, and Pauline Viardot, two exceptional sisters, left an indelible mark on the history of classical music. This album, a true celebration of their legacy, invites you to rediscover the works and influences of these visionary artists who illuminated the 19th century with their genius and passion. ‘Sisters’, a vibrant tribute to two timeless icons of opera, is performed by Karine Deshayes and Delphine Haidan, accompanied by the Orchestre national Avignon Provence and its conductor Debora Waldman.

Karine Deshayes, mezzo-soprano
Delphine Haidan, mezzo-soprano
Avignon-Provence National Orchestra
Deborah Waldman, conductor

Karine Deshayes
Considered as one of the best singers of her generation, three times awarded best “Singer of the year” at the Victoire de la Musique, Karine Deshayes first joined the troupe of the Lyon Opera before to be invited by the more important opera houses. At the Paris Opera she successfully sang Mozart roles (Cherubino, Dorabella, Donna Elvira), Rossini roles (Angelina, Rosina, Elena), but also Poppea (Incoronazione di Poppea), Romeo (I Capuleti e I Montecchi), Charlotte (Werther), Carmen and Urbain (Les Huguenots). She sang the title-roles of Rossini’s Armida (at the Montpellier Opera) and Semiramide (at the Saint-Etienne Opera), Gluck’s Alceste at the Lyon Opera, Elvira (Malibran version of Puritani) at the Festival of Radio France and Montpellier, Marguerite (Damnation de Faust) in Nice Opera and at the Paris Philharmonie.

Outside France, she sang at the Salzburg Festival (Die Zauberflöte under Riccardo Muti), Theâtre de La Monnaie (Marie de l’Incarnation in Dialogues des Carmélites), the Liceu in Barcelona (the title role of Massenet’s Cendrillon), the Teatro Real Madrid (Adalgisa in Norma) in San Francisco (La Cenerentola) and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (Siébel in Faust, Isolier in Le Comte Ory, Nicklausse/La Muse in Les Contes d’Hoffmann under James Levine and Stéphano in Roméo et Juliette).

More recently she sang Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) at the Chorégies d’Orange, Charlotte (Werther) at the Toulouse Théâtre du Capitole, Adalgisa (Norma) at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Elena (La Donna del Lago) and Balkis (Gounod’s Reine de Saba) at the Marseille Opera, Angelina (Cenerentola) at the Paris Theâtre des Champs Elysées, Liege royal Opera and the Theatro Real Madrid.

She also has a huge success in the title role of Rossini’s Elisabetta Regina d’Inghilterra at the Pesaro Festival, Giovanna Seymour (Anna Bolena) at the Zürich Opera and in concert at the Paris Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Valentine (Les Huguenots) at the Royal Theater of la Monnaie and in the title role of Norma at the Festival of Aix-en-Provence, Elisabetta (Elisabetta Regina d’Inghilterra) in Marseille.

Among her future projects, la Comtessa (Nozze di Figaro) at the Toulouse Theatre du Capitole, Médée (Lully’s Thésée) in concert at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées the Brussels Bozar and at the Theater an der Wien, Adalgisa (Norma) in Hamburg, Valentine (Les Huguenots) at the Marseille Opera.

Delphine Haidan
is a accomplished artist whose career spans both opera and recital. She has participated in numerous productions at the Paris Opera, including Carmen (Mercédès), The Tales of Hoffmann (The Muse and Nicklausse), Don Giovanni (Zerlina), and The Child and the Spells (The Cat – The Squirrel). She has also been heard at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Opéra Comique, Capitole de Toulouse, Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, Opéra National du Rhin, and Grand Théâtre de Tours. Her career has also developed abroad, including performances at the Glyndebourne Festival, Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, Maestranza de Sevilla, Royal Albert Hall in London, Dresden, Tel Aviv, Lisbon, Barcelona, Ghent, Antwerp, Brussels, Rotterdam, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Moscow, Tokyo, Bogota, and recently Seattle and La Scala in Milan. Among her recent engagements are Madama Butterfly (Suzuki) in Tours and Avignon, La Vie Parisienne (Métella) in Strasbourg, The Tales of Hoffmann (The Muse and Nicklausse) in Zurich, The Damnation of Faust (Marguerite) in Moscow, Ariane and Bluebeard (The Nurse) at Salle Pleyel and Auditorium de Dijon, Pelléas and Mélisande (Geneviève) in Tokyo, and most recently The Child and the Spells (the Mother, the Chinese Cup, and the Dragonfly) at La Scala in Milan with Marc Minkowski and in Seattle with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Ludovic Morlot, as well as Iolanta (Marta) and Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She has worked with conductors such as Michel Plasson, James Conlon, Neeme Järvi, John Nelson, Ivor Bolton, Myung-Whun Chung, Kent Nagano, Jesús López Cobos, Emmanuel Krivine, Vladimir Fedosseiev, Edo de Waart, Christophe Rousset, Emmanuelle Haïm, William Christie, Charles Dutoit, Alain Lombard, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Christian Arming, and Ludovic Morlot. In concert, she has recently sung Mozart’s Requiem at the Philharmonie de Paris, André Caplet’s The Mirror of Jesus at Notre-Dame de Paris with the Orchestre Philharmonique and the Maîtrise de Radio France conducted by Sofi Jeannin, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle at the Corum de Montpellier, The Childhood of Christ in Nantes and Moscow conducted by Vladimir Fedosseiev. She has also sung Les Nuits d’Été at the Festival de l’Epau, as well as Ravel’s Shéhérazade, Le Poème de l’Amour et de la Mer, and Das Lied von der Erde. More recently, she has performed in recital, including at the Musée d’Orsay, before singing the Wesendonk Lieder at the Nuits Romantiques du Bourget with the Orchestra of Baden-Baden, Mozart’s Requiem at the Arsenal de Metz and at the Invalides, and the Kindertotenlieder with the Ensemble Appassionato conducted by Mathieu Herzog. Delphine Haidan holds a master’s degree in musicology from the Sorbonne, a Prize from the CNSM in Paris, and numerous awards from various international competitions. Nominated for the Victoires de la Musique, she has participated in several recordings, including Lakmé released by EMI under the direction of Michel Plasson and Carmen recorded for Decca with Myung-Whun Chung. Among her projects are Rossini’s Stabat Mater at the Salle Gaveau with the Lamoureux Orchestra, Mahler’s Third Symphony at the Philharmonie de Paris, and The Damnation of Faust in Kiev, among others. She is also a vocal patron and administrator of the Music’O Seniors Association. She has participated in several Master Classes and Juries: Opera Master Class in Lille, Classical Festival in the Green and the National Orchestra of Pays de la Loire, among others.

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