Garden Party at the Fondation Dosne-Thiers
On Thursday, June 5, 2025, join us for a Garden Party featuring an exclusive concert in a venue filled with history and elegance: the Dosne-Thiers Foundation. This is where the Opera a Palazzo adventure began in 2021, and we are delighted to celebrate our fourth anniversary with you.
An evening dedicated to the greatest Italian and French opera arias, paying tribute to our Italian roots.
The celebration will continue with a cocktail reception, offering a special opportunity to meet the artists.
Your Evening
7:30 PM – Doors open
8:00 PM – First part of the concert
8:45 PM – Intermission with Leclerc Briant champagne
9:15 PM – Second part of the concert
10:00 PM – Cocktail reception and meet-and-greet with the artists
10:30 PM – End of the evening
10:45 PM – Doors close
Duration: 3 hours, including 1h30 of performance
Evening attire required
Limited to 60 guests to ensure an intimate and exclusive experience.
Price: €265
Talented artists
Three singers: soprano Emilie Rose Bry, tenor Christophe Poncet de Solage and baritone Marc Souchet will guide you through this immersive musical experience, performing Mozart’s most famous arias, duets and trios with passion and virtuosity, accompanied by the talented Katia Weimann on piano.
The program
With original staging
FIRST PART
Donizetti / Elisir d’amore
Ouverture
« Come Paride vezzoso »
« Caro elisir » – « In guerra ed in amore »
« Una furtiva lagrima
– Puccini / La Bohème
« Si. Mi chiamano Mimì »
« O soave fanciulla »
« In un coupé… O Mimi tu più non torni »
ENTRACTE
SECOND PART
Gounod / Roméo et Juliette
« Valse de Juliette »
« Ange adorable »
« Ah lève toi soleil »
Liszt
Liebestraum no.3
Bizet / Les pêcheurs de perles
« Au fond du temple saint »
« O Nadir, tendre ami de mon jeune âge »
« Je frémis, je chancelle de son âme cruelle »
Lehar / La veuve joyeuse
« Heure exquise »
Talented Artists
Three singers: soprano Armelle Khourdoïan, tenor Yu Shao, and baritone Benoit Gadel will be your guides in this musical experience, performing with passion and virtuosity the great arias of Italian and French opera, accompanied by the talented Yuko Osawa on piano.
Revelation Lyric Artist of the Adami in 2014, soprano Armelle Khourdoïan studied at the CNSMDP and the CRR of Marseille before joining the Atelier Lyrique of the Opéra de Paris. In 2016, she was engaged at La Scala Milan for L’Enfant et les Sortilèges by Ravel and performed the roles of L’Amour and Clarine (Platée, Rameau) in the famous production by Laurent Pelly and Marc Minkowski at the Palais Garnier. She recorded the album Rameau chez Madame de Pompadour with the ensemble Les Folies françoises. Armelle is a guest at numerous festivals, and viewers of France 3 have seen her several times at the Chorégies d’Orange in Musiques en fête, presented by Alain Duault. Whether in opera or concert, she has sung at the Philharmonie de Paris, the Auditorium of Radio France with the ONF, the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Opéra de Lille, the Opéra-Comique… alongside artists such as Laurent Korcia, Emmanuelle Haïm, Michel Portal, Ruggero Raimondi, and even Charles Aznavour.
Yu Shao obtained his music degree from the Shanghai Conservatory in 2008. The same year, the tenor chose to go to France to continue his studies. In 2012, he joined the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium to perfect his craft under the guidance of José van Dam. He won 4th prize at the 2014 Queen Elisabeth Competition, as well as 3rd prize at the Toulouse Competition. With the Academy of the Opéra national de Paris, he performed the roles of Pylade (Iphigénie en Tauride) and Ferrando (Così fan tutte), before gaining attention at the Opéra-Comique in the rediscovery of Le Timbre d’Argent by Camille Saint-Saëns. He has performed at the Opéra Bastille, the Opéra de Lille, Bordeaux, Rennes, Montpellier, Nantes, and Angers, as well as on several European stages. Yu Shao’s repertoire also includes recitals and concerts, with notable performances such as Mozart à Saint-Étienne and Bach à Strasbourg. In July 2023, he made his debut at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in Lucie de Lammermoor by Donizetti.
A graduate of the CRD of Pantin and the Schola Cantorum, where he studied under Nadine Denize, Benoît Gadel began his career with bass roles such as Colline (La Bohème, Puccini), Zuniga (Carmen, Bizet), and Ramfis (Aida, Verdi). His ease in the high register gradually led him toward the baritone repertoire. He has performed roles such as Escamillo (Carmen), Don Giovanni, Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), and Guglielmo (Così fan tutte). With characters from Rossini, Verdi, and Ravel, Benoît has also excelled in the baroque repertoire, performing works by Purcell, Monteverdi, and John Blow, as well as making some incursions into operetta. As a concert performer, he is regularly invited to interpret sacred works by Bach and Mozart, as well as pieces by Charpentier, Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Dvořák, and Brahms. Among the recent roles the baritone has performed on stage are Giorgio Germont in La Traviata by Verdi, Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, and a superb Don Giovanni by Mozart.
Yuko Osawa studied aesthetics at the University of Tokyo. She obtained a master’s degree in piano from the Musashino Academia Musicae, where her encounter with Junji Mitsuishi led her to pursue a career as a vocal coach. Her passion for the French vocal repertoire brought her to Paris in 2016. A Rotary Club scholarship recipient, she honed her skills under Irene Kudela and Sébastien Joly (Ecole Normale de Musique) and Françoise Tillard (CMA10). She was awarded the Royaumont Foundation Prize (2019/20) and contributed to the creation and tour of performances with the Stein-lein-chen company (Rencontres: Prix du OFF Festival de Granville 2018; Youkali; tour with JM France). She has participated in numerous projects, including Un concert sous vos fenêtres (Vivre dans le feu), Opéra Déconfiné (CALMS), among others. She accompanies many masterclasses, notably with Neil Shicoff, Karine Deshayes, Regina Werner, and Carola Guber, as well as the Georges Enesco International Singing Competition (since 2022) and the Les Maîtres du Chant competition (2024).
