Singer

Mezzo-Soprano

Anna Giraud, Prima Donna of Vivaldi

Église de Valloire

Pastoral in three acts by Paolo Lorenzani, premiered before the king in the Galerie des Cerfs at the Château de Fontainebleau in September 1681. Staged concert version, sung in Italian, with French surtitles. 1 hour 20 minutes without intermission.

Nicandro e Fileno

Théâtre de Beaune

An intense tragédie lyrique in which love, destiny and passion meet in deeply moving music. A staged version of an opera in three acts, blending music, theatre, dance and stage machinery effects.

Dido and Aeneas

Opéra Comédie

Following the success of Medea and Jason last season, the Les Surprises ensemble continues with Pierre Lebon a new operatic adventure based on Purcell's famous Dido and Aeneas . This creation, which will have the originality of being performed by an all-female vocal team, echoes the historic first performance given in a girls' school.

Six singers, all winners of the last Clermont-Ferrand International Singing Competition, perform all the roles in a production inspired by 17th-century English "masques," combining music, theater, dance, and machinery. Purcell's score is complemented by texts by Virgil and Shakespeare ( Richard III, Macbeth, The Tempest ), creating a total spectacle in which all the artists are simultaneously singers, dancers, actors, instrumentalists, and stage managers. The sea, omnipresent, becomes the moving heart of the story, a reflection of human passions.

Singer, Mezzo-Soprano

Blandine de Sansal

Events

Past events

Jul 26, 2026

Anna Giraud, Prima Donna of Vivaldi · Festival de Valloires

Jul 17, 2026

Nicandro e Fileno · Festival international d'opéra baroque de Beaune

Future and recently performed repertoire

Didon in Dido and Aeneas by Purcell

Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier

Clori in Nicandro e Fileno by Lorenzani

Festival international d'opéra baroque de Beaune

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