Stéphanie d'Oustrac
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Special offer. Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea
Sonya Yoncheva (Poppea), Kate Lindsey (Nerone), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
Cognitive dissonance reigns as gorgeous music engulfs a drama about moral implosion. —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2019, Opera Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Nominee – Baroque Vocal
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee – Conductor of the Year
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D’Oustrac’s artistry is compelling throughout but the Wagner owes something of its impact to the fact that her voice is at its freshest…[her] smoky tone, careful dynamic shading and wonderful... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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Special offer. Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide
Judith van Wanroij (Iphigénie), Stéphanie d'Oustrac (Clytemnestre), Tassis Christoyannis (Agamemnon), Cyrille Dubois (Achille), Jean-Sébastien Bou (Calchas); Le Concert de La Loge, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles Julien Chauvin
for their mingled musical insight and unflinching dramatic intensity, Chauvin and his superb forces now become the prime recommendation for what is arguably the most unjustly neglected opera... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Opera
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D’Oustrac is dazzling across these various personae, to which she brings not only luscious vocalism but also a blistering intensity. No less impressive is the Ensemble Amarillis…for zest and... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Pergolesi & Porpora: Stabat Mater & Salve Regina
RecommendedMaria Grazia Schiavo (soprano) & Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo)
La Cappella de' Turchini, Antonio Florio
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Building a Library, April 2010, First Choice
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Weird but distinctly wonderful, this programme exploring the connections between the emerging early music and cabaret scenes in early twentieth-century Paris finds d'Oustrac not so much chewing... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2023
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Special offer. Invitation Au Voyage
Melodies by Duparc, Jacques de le Presle, Debussy, Hahn & Boulanger
Stéphanie d’Oustrac (mezzo-soprano) & Pascal Jourdan (piano)
d'Oustrac has a warm, flexible mezzo voice which rises us easily as far as top Gs and which she can float to great effect. Like many French female singers of the past, she has a fastish vibrato...Jourdan's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Editor's Choice
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Anne Sofie von Otter sings Offenbach
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Choir and Orchestra of Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2003, Disc of the Month
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Haydn - Arianna a Naxos, Lieder & Canzonettas
Stephanie d'Oustrac (mezzo-soprano) & Aline Zylberajch (fortepiano)
She combines a warm, flavoursome mezzo with a fiery dramatic temperament...to each of these songs, even the most guileless, she brings an intense personal involvement...Throughout [Arianna a... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2010, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Lully: Armide
Stéphanie d'Oustrac (Armide), Cyril Auvity (Renaud), Eva Zaïcik (La Gloire/Sidonie/Lucinde), Marie Perbost (La Sagesse/Phénice/Mélisse), Timothée Varon (Artémidore/La Haine), David Tricou (Le Chevalier danois/Un Amant fortuné)
Le Poème Harmonique, Chœur de l'Opéra de Dijon, Vincent Dumestre
Obvious as it may seem, it’s worth stressing that the opera belongs to Armide. She is not a wicked witch but a fallible, sensitive woman whom Quinault shows from every angle. The part is a perfect... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Opera
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