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V+-ronique Gens, soprano Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire John Axelrod, conductor Ondine is pleased to announce a new by famous soprano Veronique Gens, who performs Herminie and Les Nuits d'ete by Hector Berlioz and Sheherazade by Maurice Ravel with the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire under the baton of it's music director John Axelrod. Veronique Gens is internationally recognized as one of the greatest sopranos. She has made a big career with baroque repertoire and Mozart, but French repertoire, especially Berlioz and Ravel, are Inchas natural to her as the air that she breathesInch. Her French remains a model of immaculate diction, fluid and luminous. Having a very special relationship to Berlioz's Les Nuits d'ete and Herminie, Veronique Gens combines them on this with Sheherazade by Ravel, which conjures up a totally different world. On this CD Herminie is released the first time with Veronique Gens. The charismatic conductor John Axelrod is music director of the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire since 2009, following the philosophy of being Inchopen to the worldInch by extraordinarily diverse repertoire choices and innovative programming. Also internationally he is a sought after conductor both for concerts and opera productions. Founded in 1971, the Orchestra National des Pays de la Loire, a InchnationalInch orchestra since 1996, is based in two cities, Angers and Nantes. Today about 200 concerts attract yearly 200,000 listeners, among them more than 10,000 subscribers. Biographies a prominent Baroque performer in recent years, soprano Veronique Gens has also become recognized as one of the world's finest Mozart singers. She performed Don Giovanni in Barcelona, Madrid, Glyndebourne, Munich and Vienna, La clemenza di Tito in Dresden and Barcelona, Cosa fan tutte in Tokyo and Baden-Baden, Cavalli's La Calisto in Munich, Paris and London, Pe
