Browse: Adèle Charvet (mezzo-soprano)

In this outstandingly accomplished selection of 18th-century operatic arias, Camilla Tilling demonstrates just how rewarding such albums can be when executed with the most genuine kind of musico-dramatic... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Charvet despatches the showpieces with agility and bravura, but her velvety voice is particularly well suited to the pathos arias which are eloquently articulated; just occasionally her vibrato... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Justice cannot be done in a few words to the discoveries on this revelatory double album, with high production values, starry musicians, and crystal-clear sound. This is one to gift all your... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Much of it is beautifully done. Charvet has a warm, appealing mezzo, with a tangy lower register and fine dynamic control at the top. She’s at her best in jazz-inflected or declamatory numbers...Manoff,... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2020 More…

The two solo voices are well matched, though the mezzo’s tone is edgier than that of her soprano colleague. Violinist/director Julien Chauvin presides over a pacy account that occasionally robs... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, 3 out of 5 stars More…

As befits a composer who had undergone Neapolitan conservatoire training in the 1760s, Zingarelli’s style owes much to the transitional operatic reforms of the likes of Sacchini (one of his teachers),... — Opera, July 2022 More…

entirely up to the standard of excellence that one has come to expect from the Chateau de Versailles series. The orchestra of the Poème Harmonique is powerful yet discrete when needed…the voices... — Fanfare, March/April 2022 More…