About Véronique Gens
Véronique Gens is one of France’s best-loved sopranos. She enjoys a distinguished career in opera, concert, recitals and recordings: she is recognized as one of the finest interpreters of Mozart and the French repertory.
Véronique’s recent and upcoming operatic appearances include Madame Lidoine in Dialogues des Carmélites at the Bayerische Staatsoper and at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the title role of La Fille de madame Angot at the Opéra Comique, Giulietta in Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the La Fenice, Clitemnestre in Iphigénie en Aulide at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and for the Greek National Opera, and the title role of Charpentier’s Médée with Les Arts Florissants at the Teatro Real in Madrid.
She has performed on the world’s foremost operatic stages, including the Opéra National de Paris, The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Wiener Staatsoper, the Bayerische Staatsoper, La Monnaie in Brussels, the Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatro Real
in Madrid, the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam and the Aix-en-Provence, Salzburg and Glyndebourne festivals.
Véronique Gens has been elevated to the rank of Chevalier in the French order of La Légion d’Honneur as well as Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres and Officier de l’Ordre national du Mérite.