Patricia Petibon

Patricia Petibon, a French soprano devoted to Baroque repertoire, achieved sufficient renown to prompt a string of solo album releases once the new millennium began. She entered the world on February 27, 1970, in Montargis, Loiret, trained at the Conservatoire de Paris, and captured a distinguished award from the institution in 1995. During the closing years of the 1990s she first secured recognition as an operatic performer, taking the stage in Étienne Méhul's Stratonice (1996), Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (1997), Léo Delibes' Lakmé (1998), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1999), George Frideric Handel's Acis and Galatea (1999), and Jules Massenet's Werther (1999). Entering the 2000s she sustained her operatic presence with appearances in Joseph Haydn's Armida (2000) and Jacques Offenbach's Orphée aux Enfers (2002). At that stage her growing stature prompted the launch of solo recordings, among them Airs Baroques Français (2002), Les Fantaisies de Patricia Petibon (2004), French Touch (2004), and Amoureuses (2008), together with the DVD French Touch: Recital à la Salle Gaveau (2005).