Natalie Dessay; "Salavieï"; Alexander Alabiev

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Natalie Dessay--soprano
Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester
Michael Schønwandt--conductor
1995-2005
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"Assessed by Jonathan Tolins of Opera News as "the most famous female French opera singer in the world today," Natalie Dessay has earned a reputation for charisma, dramatic conviction, and vocal versatility. A pert, diminutive woman not fitting the physical stereotype of operatic sopranos, Dessay began her career as a specialist in so-called soubrette roles, playing the parts of coquettish young women. As her career developed and she surmounted a major vocal disorder, she began to take on the central, often tragic soprano roles of Italian opera, with their accordingly more strenuous vocal demands. Whatever she sang, Dessay paid equal attention to singing and to her first love, acting. Explaining her admiration for the fiery Greek soprano Maria Callas, whose voice little resembled her own, Dessay told Neil Fisher of the Times of London that "she was one of the first to think like that-that opera is everything together, not only the voice or not only the music, or not only the acting, but a package. The whole package."
Natalie Dessay was born Nathalie Dessaix on April 19, 1965, in Lyon, France. The "Nathalie" spelling is more common in France, but Dessay chose to drop the "h" as a quiet tribute to American movie star Natalie Wood, and even during her professional life she would nurture a passion for the stars of classic Hollywood cinema. Raised in Bordeaux in southwestern France, Dessay was the daughter of an engineer father and a homemaker mother, neither of whom had any special interest in music. From the beginning, she had the desire to become a performer, but singing did not often cross her mind. She dreamed of becoming a ballet dancer, contemplated a career as a circus performer and, after enrolling as a student of German at a local university, switched to acting classes without her parents' permission. When they found out, she told Joshua Kosman of the San Francisco Chronicle, "they were not happy, but there was nothing they could do."
Moving on to Paris for further training, Dessay won several prestigious voice competitions, including the 1990 Mozart Competition in Vienna, Austria. She specialized in the light, melodic roles of Mozart and other composers during her early years as a performer, but some of them, such as that of the Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute, were among the most difficult in the entire operatic repertory, ascending to almost unsingable heights. Her voice was agile, sweet, in her words (as quoted by Tolins) a "bird voice," unusually clear at the top of the soprano

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