Mireille Delunsch
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Mireille Delunsch (born 2 November 1962 in Mulhouse, France) is an opera soprano. She studied musicology and voice at the conservatory in Strasbourg. Her debut was at the Opéra du Rhin in Mulhouse, in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov.

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

Among the operas Delunsch has recorded with Minkowski are:

• La Dame blanche by Boïeldieu (1996, released 1997, EMI Classics) - Jenny
• Armide by Gluck (1996, released 1999, Archiv) - Armide
• Dardanus by Rameau (1998, released 2000, Archiv) - Vénus
• Iphigénie en Tauride also by Gluck (1999, released 2001, Archiv) - Iphigénie
• Orphée et Eurydice (French version) also by Gluck (2002, released 2004, Archiv) - Eurydice

and DVD/TV broadcast

• L'incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi (2000, DVD) - Poppea
• Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss (2001, DVD) - Rosalinde
• Platée by Rameau (2002, DVD) - La Folie & Thalie
• Gala Jean-Philippe Rameau - Concert du 20ème anniversaire des Musiciens du Louvre (2003, TV)

Other recordings include:

• Nuits d'été and Herminie by Hector Berlioz, conducted by Philippe Herreweghe (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) - Mélisande
• Complete Songs by Henri Duparc (2000, Timpani)
• Cantates de Rome by Maurice Ravel (2000, EMI Classics), conducted by Michel Plasson
• Les deux journées by Luigi Cherubini, conducted by Christoph Spering (2002, Opus 111)

Delunsch has also appeared in a number of opera telecasts.

See also

• Patricia Petibon
• Véronique Gens
• Gaëlle Méchaly
• Sandrine Piau
• Natalie Dessay
• Isabelle Poulenard
• Guillemette Laurens
• Noémi Rime

External links

• Mireille Delunsch at the Internet Movie Database

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