Mireille Delunsch (born 2 November 1962) is a French soprano. She was born in

Mulhouse Mulhouse (; Alsatian: or , ; ; meaning '' mill house'') is a city of the Haut-Rhin department, in the Grand Est region, eastern France, close to the Swiss and German borders. It is the largest city in Haut-Rhin and second largest in Alsace a ...

, and studied musicology and voice at the

Conservatoire de Strasbourg The Conservatoire de Strasbourg is a music conservatory located in Strasbourg, France. The school was created using funds given to the city of Strasbourg by arts patron Louis Apffel in 1839. The conservatoire's first day of classes began on 3 Janua ...

. Her debut was at the

Opéra national du Rhin The Opéra national du Rhin is an opera company which performs in Alsace, eastern France. It includes the Opéras in Strasbourg, in Mulhouse, where the Ballet de l'Opéra national du Rhin, also known as the Ballet Du Rhin, is based, and in Colmar, ...

in Mulhouse, in

Mussorgsky Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky ( rus, link=no, Модест Петрович Мусоргский, Modest Petrovich Musorgsky , mɐˈdɛst pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈmusərkskʲɪj, Ru-Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky version.ogg; – ) was a Russian compo ...

's '' Boris Godunov''. Her repertory is wide, from Baroque opera to 20th-century art songs, with an emphasis on French music. She is well known for the operas she has sung under the direction of French conductor Marc Minkowski.

Recordings

Among the operas Delunsch has recorded with Minkowski are: *''

La dame blanche ''La dame blanche'' ( English: ''The White Lady'') is an opéra comique in three acts by the French composer François-Adrien Boieldieu. The libretto was written by Eugène Scribe and is based on episodes from no fewer than five works of the Sc ...

'' by Boïeldieu (1996, released 1997,

EMI Classics EMI Classics was a record label founded by Thorn EMI in 1990 to reduce the need to create country-specific packaging and catalogues for internationally distributed classical music releases. After Thorn EMI demerged in 1996, its recorded mus ...

) - ''Jenny'' *'' Armide'' by

Gluck Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (; 2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both part of the Holy Roman Empire, he g ...

(1996, released 1999,

Archiv Archiv Produktion is a classical music record label of German origin. It originated in 1949 as a classical label for the Deutsche Grammophon, Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft (DGG), and in 1958 Archiv was established as a subsidiary of DGG, spec ...

) - ''Armide'' *'' Dardanus'' by

Rameau Jean-Philippe Rameau (; – ) was a French composer and music theorist. Regarded as one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century, he replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and ...

(1998, released 2000, Archiv) - ''Vénus'' *'' Iphigénie en Tauride'' by Gluck (1999, released 2001, Archiv) - ''Iphigénie'' *'' Orphée et Eurydice'' (French version) by Gluck (2002, released 2004, Archiv) - ''Eurydice'' and DVD/TV broadcast *''

L'incoronazione di Poppea ''L'incoronazione di Poppea'' ( SV 308, ''The Coronation of Poppaea'') is an Italian opera by Claudio Monteverdi. It was Monteverdi's last opera, with a libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello, and was first performed at the Teatro Santi Giovanni ...

'' by

Monteverdi Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is consider ...

(2000, DVD) - ''Poppea'' *''

Die Fledermaus ' (, ''The Flittermouse'' or ''The Bat'', sometimes called ''The Revenge of the Bat'') is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée, which premiered in 1874. Background The original li ...

'' by Johann Strauss II (2001, DVD) - ''Rosalinde'' *''

Platée ''Platée'' is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Jean-Philippe Rameau with a libretto by Adrien-Joseph Le Valois d'Orville. Rameau bought the rights to the libretto ''Platée ou Junon jalouse'' (''Plataea, or Juno Jealous'') by Jacques Au ...

'' by

(2002, DVD) - ''La Folie'' & ''Thalie'' *''Gala Jean-Philippe Rameau - Concert du 20ème anniversaire des Musiciens du Louvre'' (2003, TV) Other recordings include: *''Herminie'' by Hector Berlioz, conducted by

Philippe Herreweghe Philippe Maria François Herreweghe, Knight Herreweghe (born 2 May 1947) is a Belgian conductor and choirmaster. Herreweghe founded La Chapelle Royale and Collegium Vocale Gent and is renowned as a conductor, with a repertoire ranging from Re ...

(1995, Harmonia Mundi) *'' Elektra'' by Richard Strauss conducted by Friedemann Layer (1995, released 2001, Naïve) - ''Fünfte Magd'' *'' Pelléas et Mélisande'' by Claude Debussy conducted by Jean-Claude Casadesus (1997, Naxos Records) - ''Mélisande'' *''Complete Songs'' by Henri Duparc (2000, Timpani) *''Cantates de Rome'' by Maurice Ravel (2000, EMI Classics), conducted by

Michel Plasson Michel Plasson (born 2 October 1933, Paris, France) is a French conductor. Plasson was a student of Lazare Lévy at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1962, he was a prize-winner at the International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors. ...

*'' Les deux journées'' by Luigi Cherubini, conducted by Christoph Spering (2002, Opus 111) *'' Fisch-Ton-Kan'' by Emmanuel Chabrier, conducted by Roger Delage (1992, Arion) Delunsch has also appeared in a number of opera telecasts.

References

Naxos discography for Delunsch, accessed 21 January 2010

External links

* ttp://www.mireilledelunsch.com/ Site officiel*
Mireille Delunsch
Agence Artistique Cedelle Living people 1962 births Musicians from Mulhouse French operatic sopranos Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur 20th-century French women opera singers 21st-century French women opera singers French performers of early music Women performers of early music {{France-opera-singer-stub