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Duo Étrange - Rumi VI – The minute I heard my first love story…
Duo Étrange presents a bold new album highlighting the vitality and relevance of contemporary classical creation, through an intense and nuanced dialogue between voice and cello. i wish i were dead is an artistic statement celebrating living composers and affirming that the music of our time deserves to be heard, recognized, and valued now. Featured track: “Rumi VI – The minute I heard my first love story…”, from Rumi: Quatrains of Love by Luna Pearl Woolf. The piece engages Rumi’s text with a direct, focused musical language, where voice and cello interact in a finely balanced interplay of restraint and intensity. To stream, download, or purchase the album 👇 🎧https://bfan.link/i-wish-i-were-dead🎧 Director: Allen Forouhar Assistant director: Marie Fagniard ATMA Classique Website: https://atmaclassique.com/ Facebook: / atmaclassique Instagram: / atma_classique Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/mferlan... #Classicalmusic #DuoEtrange #iwishiweredead #ContemporaryClassical #LivingComposers #Rumi
Rameau: Air de la Folie (Vanessa Croome) Orchestre de l'Agora, Nicolas Ellis
Rameau: Air de la Folie "Aux langueurs d'Apollon" Vanessa Croome, soprano Orchestre de l'Agora under the direction of Nicolas Ellis
Duo Étrange — Kväll by Anders Hillborg
Duo Étrange presents a bold new album highlighting the vitality and relevance of contemporary classical creation, through an intense and nuanced dialogue between voice and cello. i wish i were dead is an artistic statement celebrating living composers and affirming that the music of our time deserves to be heard, recognized, and valued now. Featured track: “Kväll” by Anders Hillborg, in an arrangement for soprano and cello by Duo Étrange. This contemplative piece evokes the light and atmosphere of evening through a delicate musical language in which the voice and cello merge into a subtle and expressive texture. The arrangement highlights the intimacy between the two timbres, creating a suspended moment of striking poetic intensity. To stream, download, or purchase the album 👇 🎧https://bfan.link/i-wish-i-were-dead🎧 Director: Allen Forouhar Assistant director: Marie Fagniard
Vanessa Croome: Durch Zärtlichkeit und Schmeicheln |Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Recorded at Opéra de Montréal In collaboration with musicians from l'Orchestre Métropolitan under the direction of Nicolas Ellis. Durch Zärtlichkeit und Schmeicheln from Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Ah! douce enfant (Air de la fée) Massenet: Cendrillon|Vanessa Coome
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MAY 2026“Vanessa Croome possesses a remarkable and agile instrument, notably for her ability to move between registers with precision and ease, especially in the upper range.”
— Revue L'Opéra
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MAY 2026“...the impeccable and clean coloratura of Vanessa Croome"”
— Le Devoir
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MAY 2026“Striking performance by Vanessa Croome. A fluid, ethereal soprano with vigour and pleasantly brilliant high notes, capable of convincing descents into mezzo areas....A remarkable ease in evoking emotion, and an undeniable authenticity. Attention to the artistic directors of the country; Take notice!”
— PANM 360
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MAY 2026“Mahler's music makes judicious use of sonic imagery and word-painting that Vanessa Croome exploits with great talent, both through her mastery of her instrument and her tone color... and through her highly dynamic stage presence”
— Revue L'Opéra
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MAY 2026“The aria “Mein Herr Marquis” was a natural fit for Vanessa Croome . The energetic soprano showed great charisma, unforced acting and a voice that flows like a river. She also eloquently presented the concert, watch out Marc Hérvieux!”
— La Scèna
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MAY 2026“...Vanessa Croome who once again demonstrated her incredible vocal talent...the young soprano's interpretation moved us to tears.”
— Ludwig Van
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