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Guillemette Laurens
Guillemette Laurens (born 6 November 1957 in Fontainebleau, France) is a French operatic mezzo-soprano.
Guillemette trained at the Academy of Toulouse and debuted as Baba in "The Rake's Progress" at Salle Favart. She took part in the premiere recording of Lully's "Atys" conducted by William Christie. She is a highly respected singer of Baroque music, both as a soprano and a mezzo-soprano. She has made notable recordings of Monteverdi operas.
Antoine Sicot
Antoine Sicot is a contemporary French soloist singer specialising in the baroque repertoire for bass voice.
Biography.
Born in Saint-Ouen-de-Sécherouvre in Orne, Sicot worked a lot during the 1980s with the Baroque music ensemble Les Arts Florissants, spearhead of the "baroqueux" movement directed by William Christie.
He was then one of the pillars of this ensemble alongside Agnès Mellon, Jill Feldman, Monique Zanetti, Guillemette Laurens, Dominique Visse, Michel Laplénie, Étienne Lestringant, Philippe Cantor,