Appreciated for her "warm and supple voice, magnificently sustained" (Le Monde) and her stage presence, Chantal Santon Jeffery deploys technical qualities that have been unanimously acclaimed and that enable her to tackle many repertoires, and in particular, in opera, the most diverse roles: from Mozart (Donna Anna, Elvira, Fiordiligi, the Countess, Sandrina... ), Wagner (Senta in the French version of Le Vaisseau fantôme), Britten (Governess in The turn of the screw), Haydn (title role in Armida) and contemporary creations (Lolo Ferrari by Fourgon, Hochzeitvorbereitungen by Strasnoy), Hervé (Mélusine in Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde), Boismortier (Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse), Campra (Tancrède), Rameau (La Folie in Platée, Temple of Glory), Gassman (Opera Seria) or Purcell (King Arthur, title role in Dido and Aeneas... ).

 

Regularly invited by prestigious orchestras such as Le Concert Spirituel, Les Talens Lyriques, Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, Les Siècles, le Concert de la loge, Opera Fuoco, the Brussels Philarmonic, the NFB, the ONDIF, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Pygmalion, the Orfeo Orchestra, Les Ambassadeurs, I Barocchisti or the Philarmonia Baroque Orchestra, She performs on the most beautiful European stages (Salle Pleyel, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Théâtre du Châtelet, Cité de la Musique, La Fenice, Palais Bozar, Palau de la Musica Catalana, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Bruges, Konzerthaus in Vienna, Rudolfinum in Prague, opera houses in Versailles, Bordeaux, Rennes, Avignon, Metz, Reims... ), in America (Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Herbst Theatre in San Francisco...) or in Asia (Hong Kong Philharmonic, Yokohama Opera...).

 

Among his projects for the 21/22 season, let's mention, on stage: Dido and Aeneas at the Avignon and Reims opera houses; Debussy's Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian at the Bologna opera house, directed by Fura dels Baus; Lully's Phaëton at the Nice opera house; in concert: Colin de Blamont's Erato's Caprice in Helsinki, Mozart's Mass in C, Rameau's Adonis in Budapest, Paisiello's Coronation Mass and Mozart's Requiem in Brussels and Metz, a Handel recital in Rome conducted by Jérôme Corréas, a Mozart recital with Julien Chauvin's Concert de la Loge...

 

His extensive discography includes a large number of rare French works (notably in association with the Palazzetto Bru Zane or the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles). Recent releases include Offenbach's Maître Péronilla with the Orcheste National de France conducted by Markus Poschner (role of Alvarez), Montéclair's Jephté (role of Iphise); Boismortier's Voyages de l'amour (Amour), Messager's Passionément with the Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchester, Rameau's Dardanus (Venus) with György Vasheghi's Orfeo Orchestra, with whom she also recorded her latest recital, Brillez Astres nouveaux, which met with great international critical success.

 

Forthcoming recordings include Rameau's Les Fêtes d'Hébé, Cardonne's Omphale, Massenet's mélodies with orchestra with the Orchestre de chambre de Paris and Mayr's Amor Conjugale conducted by David Stern.