Michèle Lagrange

Michèle Lagrange

Birth : 1947-05-29, Couches, Saône-et-Loire, France

History

Michèle Lagrange (born 29 May 1947) is a contemporary French operatic soprano. Born in Couches (Burgundy), Lagrange studied at the Conservatoire de Paris (rue de Madrid) in 1972-74 and at the Opéra Studio from 1974 to 1977. She began her career in the troupe of the Opéra de Lyon then, from 1984, was frequently invited to play at the Opéra de Paris. Between 1978 and 1983 Lagrange performed the title role of Gounod's Mireille, Fiordiligi in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, Agathe in Weber's Freischütz at the Opéra de Lyon. She began in 1972 at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in Rossini's Il turco in Italia, sang in Buenos Aires in Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini and made her debut in 1984 at the Paris Opera in Verdi's Jérusalem. She played the role of Elvira in Bellini's I puritani, Elisabeth in Verdi's Don Carlos, Manon in Puccini's Manon Lescaut, Alice in Meyerbeer's Robert le diable, Norma in Bellini's Norma, Imogène in Il pirata by Bellini, Esclarmonde in Massenet's Esclarmonde, Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Julie in Spontini's La vestale. Source: Article "Michèle Lagrange" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Michèle Lagrange

Movies

Les Brigands
Les Brigands
Princesse de Grenade
“Everyone steals according to one’s position in society.” A social critique, a credo to live by, and a recipe for the hilarious satire of Jacques Offenbach’s Les Brigands! The Opéra Comique’s rollicking 2011 production took full advantage of the talents of stage directors Macha Makeïeff and Jérôme Deschamps (members of the wildly successful French comedy troupe Les Deschiens) and the accomplished music director François-Xavier Roth.
The Cunning Little Vixen
The Cunning Little Vixen
His Wife / The Owl
In the forest, the animals and insects are playing and dancing. The Forester enters and lies down against a tree for a nap. A curious Vixen Cub inquisitively chases a frog right into the lap of the surprised forester who forcibly takes the vixen home as a pet. Time passes and we see the Vixen, now grown up into a young adult tied up in the forester's yard with the conservative old dachshund. Fed up with life in confinement, the vixen chews through her rope and runs off to freedom.