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Karina Gauvin

ss, *1966 CA, Montreal
Singer of Classical

Karina Gauvin is a Canadian soprano who has made several recordings and is especially recognised for her interpretation of Baroque music. Opera News stated that, "Gauvin knows how to rivet an audience in opera and concert. She has been a queen of Baroque opera for years. Her personality is big enough to dominate her elaborate wigs and costumes, and her soprano voice is like a clear, refreshing and inexhaustible spring that darts and sparkles around any ornamental obstacle in its way."

     
Instruments
  • Soprano sax
  • Vocals
Genres
  • Classical
  • Soundtrack
  • Spoken Word
Popular Tracks   
Alcina, HWV 34 / Act 1: Oh Dei! Quivi non scorgo on Handel: Alcina by George Frideric Handel, Joyce DiDonato, Maite Beaumont, Karina Gauvin, Sonia Prina, Kobie Van Rensburg, Laura Cherici, Vito Priante, Il Complesso Barocco & Alan Curtis
Belle rose du printemps (Arr. for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble by Claude Lapalme) on Anonymous: Belle rose du printemps by Anonymous, Karina Gauvin, Valérie Milot, Étienne Lafrance, Quatuor Molinari, Pentaèdre & Claude Lapalme
Alcina: V. Aria 'Tornami' (Morgana) on Handel: Arias and Dances, Excerpts from Agrippina and Alcina by George Frideric Handel, Karina Gauvin, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra & Jeanne Lamon
Alcina, HWV 34 / Act 3: Credete al mio dolore on Handel: Alcina by George Frideric Handel, Joyce DiDonato, Maite Beaumont, Karina Gauvin, Sonia Prina, Kobie Van Rensburg, Laura Cherici, Vito Priante, Il Complesso Barocco & Alan Curtis
Alcina, HWV 34 / Act 1: Tornami a vagheggiar on Handel: Alcina by George Frideric Handel, Joyce DiDonato, Maite Beaumont, Karina Gauvin, Sonia Prina, Kobie Van Rensburg, Laura Cherici, Vito Priante, Il Complesso Barocco & Alan Curtis
Bist du bei mir, BWV 508 on Bach: Little Notebook for Anna-Magdalena Bach by Luc Beauséjour
Symphony No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 52, MWV A 18 - "Hymn Of Praise": IIb. Molto più moderato ma con fuoco "Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele" - Live on Mendelssohn: Symphonies 1-5 by Felix Mendelssohn, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, RIAS Kammerchor & Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Symphony No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 52, MWV A 18 - "Hymn Of Praise": V. Duet & Chorus. Andante. "Ich harrete des Herrn" - "Wohl dem, der seine Hoffnung setzt!" - Live on Mendelssohn: Symphonies 1-5 by Felix Mendelssohn, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, RIAS Kammerchor & Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Fausto, Act II: Cavatina. Palpita nel seno gelido il cor on Louise Bertin: Fausto by Louise Bertin, Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset & Flemish Radio Choir
Alcina, HWV 34 / Act 1: O s'apre al riso on Handel: Alcina by George Frideric Handel, Joyce DiDonato, Maite Beaumont, Karina Gauvin, Sonia Prina, Kobie Van Rensburg, Laura Cherici, Vito Priante, Il Complesso Barocco & Alan Curtis

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Band Members
Discography


Title Artist Year Type
Divine KarinaKarina Gauvin2016Compil.
Don GiovanniWolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Teodor Currentzis, Musica Aeterna, Dimitris Tiliakos, Vito Priante, Mika Kares, Myrtò Papatanasiu, Kenneth Tarver, Karina Gauvin, Guido Loconsolo, Christina Gansch, Musicaeterna2016Album
TamerlanoGeorg Friedrich Händel – Xavier Sabata, Max Emanuel Cencic, John Mark Ainsley, Karina Gauvin, Ruxandra Donose, Pavel Kudinov, Il Pomo d'Oro, Riccardo Minasi2014Album
Prima DonnaKarina Gauvin, Arion Orchestre Baroque, Alexander Weimann2012Album
AriodanteGeorg Friedrich Händel, Joyce DiDonato . Karina Gauvin, Sabina Puértolas, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Topi Lehtipuu, Matthew Brook, Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis2011Album
Fête GalanteKarina Gauvin, Marc-André Hamelin2011Album
Farnace (1738 Version)Antonio Vivaldi – Max Emanuel Cencic / Ruxandra Donose / Mary-Ellen Nesi / Ann Hallenberg / Karina Gauvin / Daniel Behle / Emiliano Gonzalez Toro / I Barocchisti / Diego Fasolis2011Album
AlcinaGeorg Friedrich Händel, Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis, Joyce DiDonato, Maite Beaumont, Karina Gauvin, Sonia Prina, Kobie Van Rensburg, Laura Cherici, Vito Priante2009Album
TolomeoGeorg Friedrich Händel2008Album
Hear My Prayer (Hymns And Anthems)Sir Edward Elgar • Charles Villiers Stanford • Gerald Finzi • Herbert Howells • Henry Purcell - Karina Gauvin • Matthew Larkin • Choir Of St John's, Elora • Noel Edison2006Album
Tito ManlioAntonio Vivaldi, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone, Nicola Ulivieri, Karina Gauvin, Ann Hallenberg, Marijana Mijanovic, Debora Beronesi2006Album
Psaume 51 / Cantate 82Johann Sebastian Bach, Bernard Labadie, Les Violons du Roy, Karina Gauvin, Daniel Taylor2005Album
Mahler 4Gustav Mahler, Karina Gauvin, Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal, Yannick Nézet-Séguin2004Album
Knoxville: Summer Of 1915 / Essays For Orchestra Nos. 2 And 3Samuel Barber, Karina Gauvin • Thomas Trotter • Royal Scottish National Orchestra • Marin Alsop2004Album
CelebrationLes Violons du Roy, Bernard Labadie, La Chapelle De Québec, Dorothea Röschmann, Karina Gauvin, Russell Braun2003Album
Chants D'AuvergneJoseph Canteloube, Karina Gauvin, Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian2002Album
Apollo E Dafne & Silete VentiGeorg Friedrich Händel, Karina Gauvin, Russell Braun, Les Violons du Roy, Bernard Labadie2000Album
Arias And Dances: Excerpts From Agrippina And AlcinaGeorg Friedrich Händel - Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Karina Gauvin1999Album
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