Sylvie Brunet, known as Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo, is a contemporary French opera singer (

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Biography

Born to a Sicilian father and a French mother, Brunet was hired to sing the title role of Verdi's '' Aida'' in Bercy, one of her first professional engagements. She moved towards the " Falcon" mezzo-soprano repertoire, a type of voice that is not very frequent. She has performed on several international stages and takes part in recordings, notably at Sony, Dynamic, and EMI. Brunet performed Gluck's ''

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'' at

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of Milan, under the baton of Riccardo Muti, '' Samson and Delilah'' at the Teatro Regio of Turin, the title-role of ''

Carmen ''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the Carmen (novella), novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first perfo ...

'' at the Zürich Opera House, the role of Suzuki in '' Madame Butterfly'' at the

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directed by

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, Madame de Croissy in '' Dialogues des Carmélites'' at the Paris Opera and the Zürich Opera, Santuzza in '' Cavalleria Rusticana'' at the Séville Opera, Marguerite in '' La Damnation de Faust'' in Zürich and eventually the title role in Meyerbeer's '' l'Africaine'' at the Opéra national du Rhin. Noticed by Sergio Segalini,Sergio Segalini
on ForumOpera she is invited to sing Azucena in Verdi's '' Il trovatore'' at the Martina Franca Festival. On this occasion, an Italian critic wrote of her: "Verdi has finally found her Azucena, Sylvie Brunet is currently one of the rare Verdian singers, as much for her dramatic potential as for the breadth of her voice". Sylvie Brunet collaborates with the French conductor

Marc Minkowski Marc Minkowski (born 4 October 1962) is a French conductor of classical music, especially known for his interpretations of French Baroque works, and is the current general director of Opéra national de Bordeaux. His mother, Mary Anne (Wade), i ...

who invites her to sing the title role of ''Carmen'' in Paris and Grenoble as well as for productions of '' l’Incoronazione di Poppea'' at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and Vienna directed by

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, and '' The Tales of Hoffmann'' at the

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. Sylvie Brunet has sung in concert, among others Verdi's ''

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'' at Monte-Carlo under the direction of Georges Prêtre, Beethoven's '' Symphony No. 9'' with the Orchestre National de France under the direction of Kurt Masur as well as the

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Faust et Hélène ''Faust et Hélène'' is a cantata (or one-act opera) written by Lili Boulanger in 1913 to a libretto by Eugène Adenis. It is with this composition that Boulanger became the first female winner of the Prix de Rome for music, at only 19 years old, ...

'' by Lili Boulanger with the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France and the Berliner Philharmonie.

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