“Full Moon in the Sun” Song Recital – Claudia Galli soprano Grégory Moulin piano in lieder by H. Duparc, G. Fauré, C. Debussy, R. Hahn, C. Koechlin
“Full moon in the sun”
Once upon a time, a young man was watching the moonlight. In a whisper, he asked the light to bring him to her kingdom since he desperately wanted to discover the secret of her mysterious and enchanting glow. He wanted to enter her court to watch the princesses he had heard about, singing and dancing in veils made of silver threads.
The moonlight smiled seamlessly, although she accepted the request of the young man under one condition. He would have the right to experience three moon cycles and three full moons in a row. After those, if he hadn’t discovered her secret, he would be thrown in a hole of burning fire where he would desappear without hope of return. The young man couldn’t stop watching the moonlight. His soul had already made its choice and dived in the her deep water.
“Come in, then”, said the silver queen, “come into me and start your journey. May you discover how to become wise and pure, your life depends on it”.
Biographical notes
Claudia Galli – Soprano
Claudia Galli, lyrical soprano, began her career in December 2006 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco in the role of a Blumenmädchen in Wagner’s Parsifal with the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Marek Janowsky.
In 2007, she received a scholarship from the Yamaha Foundation and joined the Atelier Lyrique of the Paris National Opera for two seasons.
In 2009, she won the Carpeau Prize from the Paris National Opera and in 2011 she was part of the Young Singer Program of the Salzburg festival where she sang in Le Rossignol by I. Stravinsky under the baton of Ivor Bolton and covered the role of “La Contessa” in Le Nozze di Figaro conducted by Robin Ticciati.
Claudia made her debut at the Paris National Opera in 2008 in Frau ohne Schatten
(Tote Kinderstimmen, dir. G. Kuhn) followed by Rigoletto (Contessa di Ceprano, dir. D. Oren), Idomeneo (una cretesa, dir. P. Hui) and Suor Angelica (Suor Osmina, dir. P. Jordan). Next engagements included Micaëla in Carmen at the Metz Opera and the Lorraine National Opera, Sylviane in Die lustige Witwe, Clorinda in La Cenerentola at the Paris National Opera and La princesse in L’Enfant et les sortilèges by M. Ravel, on tour with the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
Further roles on stage included Despina in Cosí fan tutte, Carolina in Il matrimonio segreto, Fatima in Abu Hassan, Mrs Ford in Falstaf (Salieri) and numerous recitals and concerts in venues like the villa Médicis in Roma, the Louis Jouvet theatre and the Louvre auditorium in Paris, the Metz Arsenal and the Luxembourg Philharmonie among many others.
Since 2013, she partners with her husband Grégory Moulin, pianist, as a duo. They performed together throughout Europe and toured in the US and Equator with Lieder and French songs programs.
Claudia teaches currently singing and opera repertoire at the conservatory of Esch sur Alzette in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
Grégory Moulin – Piano
After studying piano at the music school of Montélimar, his hometown, and at the National Music School in Valence (France) where he obtained a first price in piano interpretation, Grégory Moulin joined the opera workshop of the Paris National Opera in 2006 as pianist and pianist vocal coach. He will remain there for three seasons.
Subsequently, his engagements will take him from Paris to the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, from the Salzburg and Aix en Provence festivals to the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam and from the Grand Théâtre du Luxembourg to the Musicadhoy festival in Madrid and the Märzmusik Festival in Berlin. He will collaborate with the Klangforum Wien and the Asko Schönberg ensemble and take part in numerous opera productions with the Wiener Philharmoniker, the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, the Paris National Opera orchestra, the Musiciens du Louvre and the Bayerisches Staatsorchester under the baton of conductors such as Emilio Pomarico, Pascal Rophé, Etienne Siebens, Anthony Hermus, Sylvain Cambreling, Marc Minkowski, Ingo Metzmacher, Tomas Netopil and Kent Nagano.
In 2017 he joins the troupe of the Münster Opera and in 2019 that of the Zürich Opernhaus where he would work as Maestro Suggeritore and Korrepetitor with Gianluca Capuano, Enrique Mazzola, Fabio Luisi, Christophe Loyd, Julie Fuchs, Cecilia Bartoli and Placido Domingo. He also accompanied singing Master Classes with François Leroux and Barabara Frittoli.
Since 2013 he partners with the soprano Claudia Galli. Together they performed numerous recitals throughout Europe and toured in the US and Equator with Lieder and French songs programs.
Since 2021, he has worked as a piano accompanist at the Esch-sur-Alzette Conservatory in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.