Promoting the name of Monsegur Vaillant, soprano & concert pianist, at present the only one , in the musical world, to sing to her own accompaniment opera arias, lieder, ‘mélodies’, songs in the Provençal language and in the language of Gascony.

Charles Gounod’s opera Mireille / Mirèio  that she created in the Provençal language in 1980 -Frédéric Mistral’s 150th Anniversary - translation in the Provençal language by Claude d’Esplas, Maillane, Christmas 1978. Cf : Concert Extraordinar - Scene e Aria de La Crau (Gounod Mirèio Mistral) - Opera Nationala Romana, Cluj Napoca, Romania   15/11/1982

- Audio

	Opera Arias : La Contessa (Mozart), Juliette (Gounod), Marguerite (Gounod), Violetta (Verdi), Norma (Bellini) , Isolde (Wagner) ,  recording 1980, Paris (Finnvox / CD 1999)
Arièjo Moun Pais, Lou Cant dóu Soulèu, Gounod Mirèio Mistral
	Die schöne Müllerin / Bicentenary Franz Schubert (Franz Schubert),  piano Förster
	Verlaine Fauré / les Mélodies de Venise, La Bonne Chanson  (Gabriel Fauré -Verlaine) piano Förster
	Liederkreis - Dichterliebe  (Robert Schumann),  piano Förster
	Winterreise  (Franz Schubert) non stop recording  06/05/1999, Paris Conservatoire Rachmaninoff
	Salle Gabriel Fauré Concert Live. Conservatoire rue de Madrid, Paris 14 May 1991) - Piano Steinway
	Rachmaninov at Ivanovka  (Serguei Rachmaninov) 24 Romances in russian Conservatoire Rachmaninoff, Paris  2000
	Schwanengesang  (Franz Schubert) - piano Förster
	An die Musik - Schubert / Gounod / Berlioz / Debussy
	An die Musik - Schumann

- Video : Monsegur Vaillant in Moscow

• Maly and Rachmaninoff Halls, Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, Moscow 1993.
• Richard Wagner Tristan und Isolde’s  Liebestod – sung with overwhelming beauty to her  own accompaniment. (Cf. Video Maly Hall, Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, Moscow   1993 and  Franz Schubert's Erlkönig, Rachmaninoff Hall, Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, Moscow 1993).

http://www.monsegur-vaillant.com

Promoting the name of Claude d’Esplas, a native speaker of the Lingua d’Oc and a specialist in romance philology. Claude d’Esplas has deciphered the famous ’trobar clus’ of the medieval Troubadours. Member of the MHRA (Cambridge), writer.

- Books

Mireille / Mirèio 80, Michel Carré's libretto of Charles Gounod's opera Mireille - Frédéric Mistral’s 150th Anniversary - translation in the Provençal language by Claude d’Esplas, Maillane, Christmas 1978
Tristan & Isolt from Bayreuth to Monsegur The story of Tristan & Iseut – ‘a man, a woman’ – creatures of clay garbed in flesh by Beroul, Thomas, Gottfried and others. It was the glory of Richard Wagner to have united in an eternel embrace – with the help of the singer – the couplet and the song, the ivy and the vine, the draught and the cup.
The Music Lesson / La Leçon de Musique / Die Musikstunde (french, english, german)     Scene of The Barbier of Seville by Rossini Did Victor Hugo like music ? Richard Wagner, Musician of Meudon La Canso from Gasto Febus to Gabriel Fauré and Frédéric Mistral ’lyrical Koïné’ or Voice of a People ? (Oc language) Bicentenary Schubert / Die schöne Müllerin Gabriel Fauré, Musician of Verlaine Robert Schumann, Musician of Zwickau Franz Peter Schubert, Musician of Vienna Gabriel Fauré, Musician of the Ariège (France) The  last recital of the hall Gabriel Fauré Rachmaninov at Ivanovka Tony Poncet, tenor The Violetta of the Century Schwanengesang (Schubert)   An die Musik (CD1, CD2)   Homage to Yves Nat (1890 -1956)   Tourgueniev - Gounod - Mireille
Les Merlufleaux ’Once more unto  the breach,  dear friends’  and now let us  go up to the  common Room  and have coffee.
Le Petit Train d'Auteuil From Le Voyage au bout de la nuit (Céline) to La Bête Humaine (Zola) via Verlaine  and the Goncourts...  All aboard !
Le Parcellaire No mere matter  of gauloiserie, in that savage return to the Albigeois country  and its feuds against  ’the Forty Kings  who made France’.

 http://www.claudedesplas.com