Véronique Gens

Véronique Gens, born in Orléans in 1966, is a French soprano. She studied at the Paris Conservatoire and began her career in the 1980s in Baroque music with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, going on to work with Marc Minkowski, René Jacobs, Christophe Rousset and Philippe Herreweghe. From that base she widened her repertoire to Mozart, notably Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, and then to the French repertoire, where she is known both on stage and as a singer of orchestral songs and mélodies by Berlioz, Fauré and Debussy. Her many recordings include Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été and Canteloube’s Chants d’Auvergne. She is a Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur.