Véronique Gens is one of France’s best loved sopranos, enjoying a distinguished career in opera, concert, recitals and recordings: she is recognised as one of the finest interpreters of Mozart and the French repertory.
Véronqiue’s recent and upcoming operatic appearances include: The Marschallin Der Rosenkavalier (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées); Madame Lidoine Dialogues des Carmélites (Bayerische Staatsoper and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées); the title role of La Fille de Madame Angot (Opéra Comique); Giulietta Les Contes d’Hoffmann (La Fenice); Clitemestre Iphigénie en Aulide (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Greek National Opera), and the title role of Charpentier’s Médée with Les Arts Florissants at the Teatro Real in Madrid.
One of the flagship roles of her career, Donna Elvira in the production of Don Giovanni by Peter Brook conducted by Claudio Abbado at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, brought her worldwide recognition. Her repertory comprises the leading Mozart roles (Contessa Almaviva, Vitellia, Fiordiligi) and the great roles of tragédie lyrique (including Iphigénie en Tauride, Iphigénie en Aulide and Alceste) but also heroines of a later period including: Alice Ford Falstaff; Eva Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Madame Lidoine Dialogues des Carmélites and Hanna Glawari Die Lustige Witwe. Véronique Gens also gives numerous concerts and recitals in a wide-ranging repertory all over the world, notably in Paris, Dresden, Berlin, Beijing, Vienna, Prague, London, Tanglewood, Stockholm, Moscow, Geneva and Edinburgh.
She has performed on the world’s foremost operatic stages, among them the Opéra National de Paris, The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Wiener Staatsoper, the Bayerische Staatsoper, La Monnaie in Brussels, the Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatro Real in Madrid, Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam and the Aix-en-Provence, Salzburg and Glyndebourne festivals.
