Dessay

Dessay is the one very strong reason to see this production.

Out on the moors 2008

Dessay is the one very strong reason to see this production.

Archive 2008-06-01 2008

Natalie Dessay is engaging as Amina, and I felt for her in a situation where she’s rejected by her lover and demonized by the townsfolk.

We're Desperate, Get Used To It 2009

In this case, it is New York's Met Opera which finds itself without an Ophélie after Natalie Dessay falls ill.

Tonight's TV highlights Jonathan Wright 2010

Here in Chicago Natalie Dessay gave us a Lucia which for me was the best since Joan Sutherland - and Dessay joined with Jonas Kaufman in Manon to give a heart stopping performance that I will never forget.

Brian Dickie: That was the decade that was! Brian Dickie 2011

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France—After a powerful "La Traviata," with soprano Natalie Dessay making her European debut as Violetta, the Aix Festival rounded out its opening week with a stellar performance by mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly in Mozart's "La Clemenza di Tito," a rollicking production of Shostakovich's "The Nose" and a disappointing attempt at Handel's "Acis and Galatea."

An Ingeniously Staged 'Nose' Judy Fayard 2011

Here in Chicago Natalie Dessay gave us a Lucia which for me was the best since Joan Sutherland - and Dessay joined with Jonas Kaufman in Manon to give a heart stopping performance that I will never forget.

Brian Dickie: That was the decade that was! Brian Dickie 2011

So does soprano Natalie Dessay in the title role, although at times she seems stretched.

In 'Manon,' Best to Close Your Eyes Judy Fayard 2012

French soprano Natalia Dessay and Lithuanian soprano Violeta Urmana were invited to perform.

Bolshoi gala: a night in true Russian style, minus Putin 2011

When eventually Dessay releases her celebrity fitness DVD, as surely she must, it will involve much immaculately timed, aerobic ironing – an entire regiment has many shirts – while singing "Chacun le Sait, Chacun le Dit" in roof-raising top voice.

Tosca; La fille du régiment; Takacs Quartet 2010