PIAU, SANDRINE

Veelal is de Franse sopraan Sandrine Piau te horen in barokopera's. Mozart blijft echter voor haar een belangrijke steunpilaar. Ze zingt op deze cd niet de meest bekende of virtuoze aria's uit Mozarts opera's. Daarentegen geeft ze een podium aan tragische heldinnen zoals Giunia (Lucio Silla) en Sandrina (La finta giardiniera) en kinderlijke figuren zoals Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro). Zo komt een caleidoscoop aan vrouwen voorbij. Karakters die Piau na staan. Met haar warme en volle stem maakt ze echte personen van de rollen. Er zit een uitgebreid boekje bij met toelichting en de liedteksten.


Mozart: Desperate Heroines

L'ho perduta, me meschina (from Le Nozze di Figaro)
Non mi dir (from Don Giovanni)
Geme la tortorella (from La finta giardiniera)
Pallid’ombre (from Mitridate, re di Ponto)
Deh vieni, non tardar (from Le nozze di Figaro)
Crudeli, oh dio! (from La Finta Giardiniera)
Se il padre perdei (from Idomeneo)
Fra i pensier più funesti (from Lucio Silla)
L'amerò, sarò costante (from Il re pastore)
Sandrine Piau (soprano)
Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Ivor Bolton
Sandrine Piau talks about Desperate Heroines here.

"When Naïve offered me the chance to record a Mozart recital in 2001, it was something I hadn’t even dared to dream of, because he seemed to me to be the composer most emblematic of every kind of perfection. I made the disc with a feeling almost of transgression and a tremendous fear of not being worthy of him. Now, thirteen years later, I come back to Mozart with the experience of the roles I’ve tackled on stage in the meantime.

Donna Anna is probably the character I most wanted to include, not only because I’ve sung her in the theatre but also because the part is traditionally given to heavier voices than mine. Like any so-called ‘Baroque’ singer, I’m suspicious of traditions, and I like the idea that behind her cries of suffering she has still retained a redemptive gentleness, which one can sense in ‘Non mi dir’. The arias I’ve chosen are often tormented. I suppose this is a disc of maturity, which both reflects my trajectory over these past few years and catches me at a specific moment in my life, like a snapshot." Sandrine Piau