Gramophone Awards
2019
Finalist - Recital

Opera Choice
BBC Music Magazine
Christmas 2018

Winner - Jeune Talent
Diapason d’Or de l’Année
2018

Nominated - Recital Album
International Opera Awards
2019

Elsa Dreisig (soprano), Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie Pyrénées Méditerranée, Michael Schønwandt

Gounod: Faust: 'Les grands seigneurs ont seuls des airs... Ah! Je ris de me voir
Massenet: Ah! je suis seule, seule enfin! (Thaïs)
Puccini: In quelle trine morbide (from Manon Lescaut)
Massenet: Allons! Il le faut pour lui-même!... Adieu, notre petite table (from Manon)
Steibelt: Je vais donc usurper les droits de la nature (from Roméo et Juliette)
Gounod: Dieu! Quel frisson court dans mes veines from Romeo and Juliette
Rossini: Una voce poco fa (from Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Mozart: Porgi amor (from Le nozze di Figaro)
Massenet: Il est doux, il est bon (from Hérodiade)
Strauss, R: Ah! Du wolltest mich nicht deinen Mund küssen lassen (from Salome)

Miroirs is the debut album from the young French-Danish soprano Elsa Dresig. The winner of Plácido Domingo’s Operalia singing competition in 2016, she has performed opera in Berlin, Paris, Zurich and Aix-en-Provence and sung with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic in Berlin, Salzburg, Lucerne and Paris.

Miroirs showcases her vocal and dramatic range with different ‘reflections’ on a situation or character in arias and scenes from operas by Gounod, Massenet, Rossini, Mozart, Puccini, Richard Strauss and the rarely-heard Daniel Steibelt. The album includes two world premiere recordings.

"Now here’s a striking debut…[There Is] a pretty wide spectrum of characters on which to reflect…But Dreisig saves the real surprise for the end…the blood-drenched final scene from Strauss’s Salome. Or rather Salomé…The vocal range is extremely wide and it requires a true singing actress but Dreisig makes a most convincing case, with plenty of silvery steel as the debased teenager. [Schønwandt] is in his element." - Gramophone Magazine, December 2018.