Chantal Santon Jeffery
Much admired for her ‘warm, flexible, magnificently sustained voice’ (Le Monde) and her stage presence, Chantal Santon Jeffery plays a wide range of roles in the opera house, from Mozart to contemporary works, by way of Wagner, Britten, Haydn, Hervé, Boismortier, Rameau, Gassmann and Purcell. She is invited to appear with the most prestigious orchestras, including Le Concert Spirituel, Les Talens Lyriques, Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, Les Siècles, Le Concert de la Loge, Opera Fuoco, the Brussels Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de France, Pygmalion, Orfeo Orchestra, and sings in today’s leading venues, among them the Salle Pleyel, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Théâtre du Châtelet, La Fenice, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Bozar, the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, and the opera houses of Versailles, Montpellier, Bordeaux, Metz and Rennes.

Her large discography (more than thirty releases) includes numerous works from the French repertory (Rameau, Campra, Lully, Mondonville, Boismortier, Grétry, Dukas, Jaëll, Catel, Delibes, Dauvergne, David, Dubois etc.) but also music by Purcell, J. C. Bach, Rovetta, Mozart, Kraus, Haydn and Martinez.