Julien Dran
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Special offer. Charles Silver: La Belle Au Bois Dormant
Thomas Dolié (Le Roi), Guylaine Girard (Aurore/La Reine), Kate Aldrich (La Fée Urgèle/Dame Gudule), Adrien Fournaison, Julien Dran (Le Prince/Le Chevalier errant), Matthieu Lécroart (Barnabé); Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Hungarian National Choir, György Vashegyi
There are some pretty Wagnerian heroics in the orchestra as the prince defeats fire-breathing monsters blocking his path to the princess, the Hungarian National Philharmonic and György Vashegyi... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Clémence de Grandval: Mazeppa
Tassis Christoyannis (Mazeppa), Nicole Car (Matréna), Ante Jerkunica (Kotchoubey), Paweł Trojak ( L’Archimandrite), Julien Dran (Iskra), Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mihhail Gerts
Performances and recording quality are up to Bru Zane's polished standards, even with the leading singers sometimes stretched to their dramatic limits but not beyond. In the substantial baritone... —
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Special offer. Saint-Saëns: Déjanire
Kate Aldrich (Déjanire), Anaïs Constans (Iole), Julien Dran (Hercule), Jérôme Boutillier (Philoctète), Anna Dowsley (Phénice)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Chœur de l’Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Kazuki Yamada
Here the principals are well up to its vocal and dramatic demands...Kate Aldrich's Déjanire is a great performance equalled in dramatic emphasis by Julien Dran's Hercule...The austere tragedy... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Premiere Recordings
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Georges Bizet: Djamileh, Vasco de Gama, Cantates, Musique chorale, Mélodies & Musique pour piano
Mélissa Petit (soprano), Isabelle Druet (mezzo), Cyrille Dubois (tenor), Thomas Dolié (baritone), Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth, Orchestre national de Metz Grand Est, David Reiland et al
As always with Bru Zane, the production values are high, both in terms of the immaculate recorded sound and the beautifully illustrated accompanying book with its scholarly articles. It all... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2025, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Opera
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Special offer. Jules Massenet: Grisélidis
Vannina Santoni (Grisélidis), Julien Dran (Alain), Thomas Dolié (Le Marquis), Tassis Christoyannis (Le Diable), Adèle Charvet (Bertrade); Orchestre et Chœur Opéra national Montpellier Occitanie, Jean-Marie Zeitouni
The opera fuses comedy with sentiment and is shaped around the vocally and dramatically demanding title role. In this, soprano Vannina Santoni is especially well cast. Her timbre and articulation... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Opera
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Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, Prométhée (Excerpts), Shylock & Songs
Tara Erraught (mezzo-soprano), Ruth Rosique (soprano), Julien Dran (tenor),
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Choir Ireland, Jean-Luc Tingaud
With its famous ‘Sicilienne’, the Pelléas et Mélisande Suite will be familiar to many, but it is the sumptuous beauty of songs such as ‘La Chanson du pêcheur’ and ‘Les Roses d’Ispahan’ that... —
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Special offer. Sacchini, G: Renaud
Marie Kalinine, Julien Dran, Jean-Sébastien Bou, Pierrick Boisseau, Julie Fuchs, Katia Velletaz, Chantal Santon, Jennifer Borghi, Cyrille Dubois & Pascal Bourgeois
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
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Par amour
Vannina Santoni (soprano), Julien Dran (tenor), Albane Carrère (mezzo-soprano), Orchestre National de Lille, Jean-Marie Zeitouni
Santoni may be young, but she has a remarkable instinct for the drama of the moment and consummate technique. —
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Massenet: Le Mage
Catherine Hunold (Anahita), Kate Aldrich (Varedha), Luca Lombardo (Zarâstra), Jean-François Lapointe (Amrou), Marcel Vanaud (Le Roi d’Iran), Julien Dran (Un Prisonnier touranien, Un Chef iranien) & Florian Sempey (Un Chef touranien, Le Héraut)
Choeur lyrique et Orchestre symphonique Saint-Étienne...
Le mage is well worth hearing. The orchestra plays excellently for Laurent Campellone, who whips up the passion where required but relishes the more sentimental passages too. Catherine Hunold,... —
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Dukas: Velléda, Polyeucte
Chantal Santon, Julien Dran (tenor), Jean-Manuel Candenot, Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
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