The Ministry of Culture announced Tuesday that it had made a report to the public prosecutor after the complaint for sexual assault filed by the French soprano Chloé Briot against a baritone.
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On August 17, the soprano Chloé Briot revealed to the musical review
The letter of the musician that she
had been the victim of repeated sexual assault on the part of a singer colleague who held the male title role in the production of the contemporary opera
L flood
of Joël Pommerat.
The facts go back according to her between October 2019 and February 2020, on the stage of the Opéra-Comique in Paris where the show was created, as well as at the Operas of Rennes and Nantes, where it had been repeated.
"The Ministry of Culture has decided to file a report with the Public Prosecutor under article 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure"
, he said in a press release from rue de Valois .
One way
"to demonstrate its firm desire to take the full measure of gender-based and sexual violence in the musical environment"
, further underlines the text.
During rehearsals and spinning, I couldn't tell my colleague that I didn't like the way he touched me
Chloe Briot.
A work of alert, prevention and support for training, production and distribution structures will thus be carried out in conjunction with the National Music Center,
"by involving the representatives of the artists"
, the press release said.
"The result of this work will be presented to the Minister of Culture (Roselyne Bachelot) at the end of 2020"
.
Claiming to want to
"put an end to the law of silence that reigns in the opera"
, the singer told La lettre du musicien that
"during rehearsals and spinning, I could not tell my colleague that his manner of I didn't like touching myself ”
.
"Of course, we had to play a sex scene, but he always acted beyond the framework of the director's proposals and systematically made me look like a bitch with him"
, added the artist, who played the leading role. in the opera,
"Terrorized at the idea of making a mess in the production"
, the young woman was silent during the rehearsals before the premiere at the Opéra-Comique.
In full performance, he felt my right breast like plasticine
When the show resumed in Rennes, in January, then in Nantes, the touching recurred according to her.
"In full performance, he palpated my right breast like plasticine"
and in another scene
"he violently spread my legs by putting his head on my cock,"
she told the music magazine.
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She claims that this behavior has not changed although she reported it to the director and opera directors concerned, until Olivier Mantei, director of the Opéra-Comique, dismisses the singer. takeovers planned until 2024.