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Delphine Haidan is a accomplished artist whose career spans both opera and recital. She has participated in numerous productions at the Paris Opera, including Carmen (Mercédès), The Tales of Hoffmann (The Muse and Nicklausse), Don Giovanni (Zerlina), and The Child and the Spells (The Cat – The Squirrel). She has also been heard at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Opéra Comique, Capitole de Toulouse, Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, Opéra National du Rhin, and Grand Théâtre de Tours. Her career has also developed abroad, including performances at the Glyndebourne Festival, Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, Maestranza de Sevilla, Royal Albert Hall in London, Dresden, Tel Aviv, Lisbon, Barcelona, Ghent, Antwerp, Brussels, Rotterdam, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Moscow, Tokyo, Bogota, and recently Seattle and La Scala in Milan. Among her recent engagements are Madama Butterfly (Suzuki) in Tours and Avignon, La Vie Parisienne (Métella) in Strasbourg, The Tales of Hoffmann (The Muse and Nicklausse) in Zurich, The Damnation of Faust (Marguerite) in Moscow, Ariane and Bluebeard (The Nurse) at Salle Pleyel and Auditorium de Dijon, Pelléas and Mélisande (Geneviève) in Tokyo, and most recently The Child and the Spells (the Mother, the Chinese Cup, and the Dragonfly) at La Scala in Milan with Marc Minkowski and in Seattle with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Ludovic Morlot, as well as Iolanta (Marta) and Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She has worked with conductors such as Michel Plasson, James Conlon, Neeme Järvi, John Nelson, Ivor Bolton, Myung-Whun Chung, Kent Nagano, Jesús López Cobos, Emmanuel Krivine, Vladimir Fedosseiev, Edo de Waart, Christophe Rousset, Emmanuelle Haïm, William Christie, Charles Dutoit, Alain Lombard, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Christian Arming, and Ludovic Morlot. In concert, she has recently sung Mozart’s Requiem at the Philharmonie de Paris, André Caplet’s The Mirror of Jesus at Notre-Dame de Paris with the Orchestre Philharmonique and the Maîtrise de Radio France conducted by Sofi Jeannin, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle at the Corum de Montpellier, The Childhood of Christ in Nantes and Moscow conducted by Vladimir Fedosseiev. She has also sung Les Nuits d’Été at the Festival de l’Epau, as well as Ravel’s Shéhérazade, Le Poème de l’Amour et de la Mer, and Das Lied von der Erde. More recently, she has performed in recital, including at the Musée d’Orsay, before singing the Wesendonk Lieder at the Nuits Romantiques du Bourget with the Orchestra of Baden-Baden, Mozart’s Requiem at the Arsenal de Metz and at the Invalides, and the Kindertotenlieder with the Ensemble Appassionato conducted by Mathieu Herzog. Delphine Haidan holds a master’s degree in musicology from the Sorbonne, a Prize from the CNSM in Paris, and numerous awards from various international competitions. Nominated for the Victoires de la Musique, she has participated in several recordings, including Lakmé released by EMI under the direction of Michel Plasson and Carmen recorded for Decca with Myung-Whun Chung. Among her projects are Rossini’s Stabat Mater at the Salle Gaveau with the Lamoureux Orchestra, Mahler’s Third Symphony at the Philharmonie de Paris, and The Damnation of Faust in Kiev, among others. She is also a vocal patron and administrator of the Music’O Seniors Association. She has participated in several Master Classes and Juries: Opera Master Class in Lille, Classical Festival in the Green and the National Orchestra of Pays de la Loire, among others.