Enchantresses

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Handel is one of Sandrine Piau's favorite composers, we remember her magnificent Alcina on DVD (ALPHA715): "if I once portrayed flighty and light heroines, this album offers a portrait of powerful, often wounded women."... "Queens, sorceresses, sirens, we were drawn to the musical and emotional intensity that emanates from the hopes, disappointments, and sufferings of these women, without forgetting the mischief or cruelty they also know how to deploy," continues Jérôme Correas, the soprano's longtime collaborator and conductor of Les Paladins. Through Almirena, Cleopatra, or Alcina, Handel explores all the facets of these fallen heroines, sharply defined characters that are found in Sandrine Piau's passionate interpretation.