Colette Alliot-Lugaz [SEP] voice type
Colette Alliot-Lugaz
Colette Alliot-Lugaz (born 20 July 1947) is a French soprano, particularly associated with Mozart.
Career.
Born in Notre-Dame-de-Bellecombe, she began her musical studies in Bonneville (Haute Savoie), and later in Geneva, with Magda Fonay-Besson. She completed her training at the Paris Opéra-Studio with René Koster and Vera Rosza. She made her stage debut as Pamina, in a production of "The Magic Flute" by the Opéra-
in the same place as her military lover. So the jealous husband has to apologise for his unwarranted suspicions, and the captain finds no one hiding in the wardrobe; she sends both away, giving the furious Clavaroche a candlestick to light his way, thus leaving her alone with Fortunio, who comes out and falls into her arms.
Recordings.
John Eliot Gardiner conducted a complete recording for Erato in 1987 with Colette Alliot-Lugaz, Michel Trempont and Thierry Dran. In 1961 French EMI recorded excerpts with Liliane Berton