Alpha is very proud to welcome this grande dame of lyric art. A great Mozartian, Veronique Gens also excels in Gluck, Berlioz and Offenbach and has sung with the greatest, from Claudio Abbado to Marc Minkowski or Frans Brüggens.

Her rich discography features numerous repertoires but, up until now, it included only one recording of mélodies, whereas she is unanimously recognized as one of the world’s most eminent ambassadresses of the French art song.

With her accomplice Susan Manoff, a connoisseur of vocal music and a tremendously sensitive pianist, she has assembled this programme devoted to songs she loves, mixing a few well-known gems and others, quite rare, such as the superb Néère, from Reynaldo Hahn’s Etudes latines.