Audrey Saint-Gil

Audrey Saint-Gil gave an excellent reading of Gounod’s work and skillfully unified the stage and the pit, performing an extraordinary performance at the helm of the Oviedo Filarmonía, extracting a palette of nuances and timbres that was at times captivating, but without sacrificing the power of a compact and balanced ensemble that proved to be very malleable and well-assembled.

ÓperaActual

The Oviedo Filarmonía, powerful and blended, shone under the direction of the Frenchwoman Audrey Saint-Gil , who was repeating her performance in the pit after her memorable Hamlet  from three years ago. Her reading was clear, lyrical, with a firm pulse, supporting without invading and taking care of the orchestral climaxes that Gounod carefully reserves for his score.

OperaWorld

Conductor Audrey Saint-Gil, leading the Oviedo Filarmonía, conducted the work with nerve, varied dynamic contrasts, and a smooth timbre that underlines the marked symphonic qualities and clearly highlights the fixed ideas – the first being the love theme heard at the end of the Overture – that run throughout the work. Among the most inspired orchestral moments, we highlight the nocturne in Act II and, above all, the richness of nuances and the grate ability of this young conductor to project a very continuous dramatic conception, parallel to the stage.

El Comercio

Along with Génesis Moreno, the other big winners of the night were Oviedo Filarmonía and the French conductor Audrey Saint-Gil. It is no easy task to meet the orchestral demands of this opera… Saint-Gil intelligently conducted the OFIL, balancing the stage and pit at all times, but without giving up a considerable sound, extracting from the Oviedo ensemble a suggestive and nuanced timbre and contributing both the symphony drama required in some particularly tragic moments, as well as the captivating lyricism that underlies other fragments.

La Nueva España

Having said all this, I believe, however, that the big winner of the evening was Frenchwoman Audrey Saint-Gil , who was ultimately responsible for ensuring that the evening ran on the right track. From the first resounding chord, we sensed that things were going to go well, and they did.

Platea Magazine

Without a doubt, one of the key figures in the performance’s success was French conductor Audrey Saint-Gil, whose energetic baton drew extraordinary performances from the Navarra Symphony Orchestra, which had a great evening. The conductor controlled the pit at all times with energy and rhythm, with enveloping sounds, but also nuanced ones in the parts where the score demands it, particularly in the first interlude.

Ópera Actual

Audrey Saint-Gil, conducting the Principality of Asturias Symphony Orchestra, gave her all and also achieved great heights both in her lavish reading of the score – from which she extracted all its tonal beauty and the exquisite textures that comprise it – and in the careful and tight fit with the stage from which the cast and also the Intermezzo Choir benefited in one of their best contributions since participating in the Oviedo series.

Ópera Actual

But the evening’s big experience was the French conductor, Audrey Saint-Gil. With her many skills, she is a chapter in itself. She has several distinctions on her CV – for example, she has taken a doctorate in Greek philosophy at the University of Toulouse. But more significant in a Verdi context is of course that she works as a vocal coach at several major opera houses on both sides of the Atlantic – and that she is so familiar with Verdi’s marvelous masterpiece.

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