 At the age of 18, Guillemette Laurens joined the Opera-Studio and made her debut at Salle Favart in Paris a few years later in the role of Baba the Turkish in Stravinsky’s The Rake's Progress. She formed part of the roster of the Lyric Workshop of the Rhine before entering to Arts Florissants of William Christie. Since 1980, she sang on the major musical stages of Europe, as well as the USA, Colombia, Israel, South Africa and Japan. She interpreted there oeuvre of roles, as The Nose by Shostakovich, Dido and Aeneas by Purcell, Atys by Lully, I Puritani by Bellini, Clemenza di Tito by Mozart, L’Orfeo and L’Incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi, the Mass in B minor (BWV 232) by J S. Bach, L’enfance du Christ by Berlioz. She sang at the Festival of Aix-en-Provence in Iphigénie en Aulide, with John Eliot Gardiner, and Towards Bach concert series on London's South Bank.
Guillemette Laurens has worked with renowned ensembles: La Petite Bande directed by Gustav Leonhardt, La Chapelle Royale (Philippe Herreweghe), Les Arts Florissants (William Christie), Concerto Vocal (René Jacobs), Capriccio Stravagante (Skip Sempé), Il Giardino Armonico and Sequentia. |
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Guillemette Laurens (mezzo), Enrico Onofri (solo violin), Luca Pianca (lute) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Donna Brown, Guillemette Laurens, Howard Crook & Hervé Lamy La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Antonio Abete, Charles Daniels, Lynne Dawson, Guillemette Laurens I Barocchisti, Coro della Radio Svizzera, Diego Fasolis, Diego Fasolis | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Gemma Bertagnolli, Guillemette Laurens, Sara Mingardo, Nathalie Stutzmann, Philippe Jaroussky & Antony Rolfe Johnson Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi “The opera is well-served by a fine cast … the whole is directed with vice-like dramatic grip by Jean-Christophe Spinosi.” Gramophone | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Cyril Auvity, Guillemette Laurens, Calliopej Jan Van Elsacker & Dominique Visse Akadêmia & Fileno nuntio and ensembles, Françoise Lasserre La morte d’Orfeo is a work of its composer’s youth, dedicated in 1619 to Alessandro Mattei, a close
associate of Pope Paul V (Borghese) at Padua. We know nothing of the circumstances in which it was
performed. Similarly, the author of the libretto is unidentified; it may have been Landi himself. However, we
cannot but notice a number of major innovations unknown to his predecessors: Landi introduces genuinely
comic elements into his opera, as well as substantial choral scenes which strongly contribute to its
architecture. Yet this only heightens the drama and intensity of the tragic scenes. The style alternates
between recitatives and strophic arias. All these elements combine to make up a work that appears as the
true precursor of Baroque opera. “It's a fascinating glimpse of the beginnings of opera, beyond the towering achievements of Monteverdi.” The Guardian | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Salomé Haller (soprano), Antonella Balducci (soprano), Guillemette Laurens (mezzo-soprano), Makato Sakurada (tenor), Claudio Danuser (baritone), Philippe Huttenlocher (bass) & Arnaud Marzorati (bass) Coro della Radio Svizzera, Lugano, Coro Calicantus & I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Sandrine Piau (soprano), Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano), Paul Agnew (tenor) & Guillemette Laurens (mezzo-soprano) Modo Antiquo, Federico Maria Sardelli "This is sensational Handel singing… Pure magic."
Classical CD of the Week, The Sunday Times | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Orfeo - Nigel Rogers tenor, Euridice - Patrizia Kwella soprano, La Musica - Emma Kirkby soprano, Proserpina - Jennifer Smith soprano, Ninfa - Helena Afonso soprano, Speranza - Catherine Denley mezzo, Messagiera - Guillemette Laurens mezzo, Echo/Apollo - Mario Bolognesi tenor, Pastore II - Rogers Covey-Crump tenor, Pastore III - John Potter tenor, Plutone/Pastore - Stephen Varcoe baritone, Caronte - David Thomas bass & Spirits - Terry Edwards, Geoffrey Shaw London Baroque & London Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble, Charles Medlam & Theresa Caudle | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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Guillemette Laurens (mezzo-soprano) Le Poeme Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre Includes 2005 Alpha catalogue | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Guillemette Laurens (soprano) Vocal & instrumental ensemble Currende, Erik Van Nevel | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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