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Renowned opera houses in Europe regularly cast bass-baritone Werner van Mechelen, including Opera Vlaanderen, La Monnaie, Opéra de Wallonie, La Fenice, and many more. He has sung under the baton of Jeffrey Tate, Antonio Pappano, Marc Minkowski, and Hartmut Haenchen. In lieder, his repertoire is inexhaustible; it includes all major composers of lied and all major cycles, as well as works by lesser-known composers both past and present. Among his accompanists are Jozef de Beenhouwer, Eric Schneider, Lucas Blondeel, Inge Spinette, and Peter Vanhove, who is featured on this new CD.