{{Short description|French mezzo-soprano (born 1943)}} '''Nadine Denize''' (born 6 November 1943) is a French mezzo-soprano.
== Career == Born in Rouen, Denize studied at the {{ill|conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Rouen|fr}}, in Marie-Louise Christol's class<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lesamisdarthur.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1785&Itemid=157&lang= |title=''Nadine Denize, chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur'' |access-date=2018-02-16 |archive-date=2018-02-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180216205231/http://www.lesamisdarthur.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1785&Itemid=157&lang= |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://odb-opera.com/joomfinal/index.php/les-dossiers/46-les-chanteuses/71-nadine-denize-noble-mezzo ''Nadine Denize, noble mezzo''] on ODB-opera.com.</ref> and entered the Conservatoire de Paris (rue de Madrid) in Camille Maurane's class at age eighteen. She won a First prize and was hired by the Paris opera. She made her debut as Cassandra in Berlioz's ''Les Troyens'' and Marguerite in ''La Damnation de Faust''.
She was also a Wagnerian singer.<ref>[http://www.cnrw-paris.org/archives/1630 Nadine Denize] on Cercle national Richard Wagner</ref>
== Discography == * ''Mors et vita'' by Charles Gounod with the orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse directed by Michel Plasson * ''Pelléas et Mélisande'' by Claude Debussy with the Berlin Philharmonic directed by Herbert von Karajan 1978 EMI * ''Guercoeur'' by Alberic Magnard with the orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse directed by Michel Plasson 1987 EMI
== See also == * Debussy: ''Pelléas et Mélisande'' (Herbert von Karajan recording)
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [http://www.nadinedenize.com Personal website] * {{Allmusic|class=artist|id=q20392}} * [https://www.discogs.com/fr/artist/1634765-Nadine-Denize Nadine Denize] on Discogs * [https://www.francemusique.fr/emissions/les-traverses-du-temps/nadine-denize-mezzo-soprano-22542 Nadine Denize] on France Musique * [http://www.nadinedenize.com/biographie Biography of Nadine Denise] * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4dlXZ8zUlc Nadine Denize as Cassandra, in Les Troyens-1978] on YouTube * [http://www.bruceduffie.com/denize.html Interview with Nadine Denize] October, 1982
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