Karine Deshayes
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Special offer. Louise Bertin: Fausto
RecommendedKarine Deshayes (Fausto), Karina Gauvin (Margarita), Ante Jerkunica (Mefistofele), Nico Darmanin (Valentino), Marie Gautrot (Catarina)
Les Talens Lyriques, Flemish Radio Choir, Christophe Rousset
Fausto may not be a masterpiece, but it is well worth encountering...There’s strong support from the Flemish Radio Choir and Les Talens Lyriques, with conductor Christophe Rousset revealing... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2024, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Opera
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International Opera Awards, 2024, Winner - Complete Recording
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winners 2024, Rediscovery
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Premiere Recordings
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Winner - Opera
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Special offer. Méhul: Uthal
RecommendedKarine Deshayes (Malvina), Yann Beuron (Uthal), Jean-Sébastien Bou (Larmor), Sébastien Droy (Ullin), Philippe-Nicolas Martin (Le Chef des Bardes / Le Troisième Barde)
Les Talens Lyriques & Choeur de Chambre de Namur, Christophe Rousset
Yann Beuron is the keenly engaged Uthal, while Jean-Sébastien Bou gives Larmor a wronged nobility and Karine Deshayes is consistently expressive as the anguished Malvina. There’s characterful... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th February 2017
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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International Opera Awards, 2018
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Special offer. Bellini: Norma
Marina Rebeka (Norma), Karine Deshayes (Adalgisa), Luciano Ganci (Pollione), Marko Mimica (Oroveso), Anta Jankovska (Clotilde), Gustavo De Gennaro (Flavio)
Orquesta y Coro del Teatro Real, Madrid, John Fiore
[Deshayes's] tone is creamy, nicely contrasting with Rebeka’s greater metal, and every word and line is etched with wonderfully expressive subtlety. It’s an outstanding performance...Rebeka’s... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Opera
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Lully: Thésée
Mathias Vidal (Thésée). Karine Deshayes (Médée), Deborah Cachet (Aeglé), Marie Lys (Cléone/Cérès), Bénédicte Tauran, (La Grande Prêtresse de Minerve), Thaïs Raï-Westphal (Dorine/Venus), Les Talens Lyriques, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Christophe Rousset
Rousset and his performers are lithe and imaginative. A well-chosen cast make much of Lully's expressive recitative. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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International Opera Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Complete Recording
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Handel: Sonya Yoncheva
Sonya Yoncheva (soprano), Karine Deshayes (mezzo)
Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro de Marchi
Yoncheva is a force of nature. Her top notes merit a gale warning, her words drip with passion, and the bloom of her lowest register equals that of her top. —
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Lucrezia (portraits of A Woman)
Sandrine Piau, Amel Brahim-Djelloul (sopranos), Karine Deshayes, Lucile Richardot (mezzos), Les Paladins, Jérôme Corréas
Beauty alone makes bearable each soloist ’s visceral enactment of female suffering. —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2025, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Voice & Ensemble
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Salieri: Tarare
Cyrille Dubois (Tarare), Jean-Sebastian Bou (Sultan Altar), Karine Deshayes (Astasie)
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
The title-role is given a strong identity by Cyrille Dubois’s bright little tenor. His wife Astasie is vibrantly delineated by soprano Karine Deshayes. Atar’s endless villainy is vividly presented... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Winner - Opera
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Special offer. David, Félicien: Herculanum
Véronique Gens (Lilia), Karine Deshayes (Olympia), Edgaras Montvidas (Hélios), Nicolas Courjal (Nicanor / Satan), Julien Véronèse (Magnus)
Flemish Radio Choir & Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, Hervé Niquet
we would listen in vain for anything approaching Berlioz's or Verdi's individuality, but the music is competently written and the soloists, especially Nicolas Coujal doubling as two baddie baritones,... —
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Special offer. Natalie Dessay - Italian Opera Arias (Standard Version)
Natalie Dessay (Soprano), Sascha Reckert (glass harmonica), Karine Deshayes (Anna), Franck Ferrari (Enrico), Matthew Rose (Raimondo) & Wolfgang Klose (Normanno), Franck Ferrari (Riccardo) & Matthew Rose (Giorgio)
Concerto Köln & Europäischer Kammerchor, Evelino Pidò
Violetta's aria at the end of Act I of La traviata demands the impossible. A lyric voice for 'Ah forse è lui' and then weight and depth and cascading coloratura in 'Sempre libera'. Natalie... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2008, Opera Choice
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Offenbach: Fables de la Fontaine
Karine Deshayes (mezzo)
Orchestre de l’Opéra de Rouen, Jean-Pierre Haeck