Decidedly, the Parisian lyrical re-entry is sporty!
Fifteen days after
Fidelio
at the Opéra Comique, where the holder of the title role played back while a colleague arrived at the last minute lent her her voice, it is the
Pelléas et Mélisande
of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées who just suffered the same mishap.
Voiced by an allergy the day before the premiere, Patricia Petibon will have played the staging while Vannina Santoni, eight months pregnant, sang from the side of the stage.
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And did it superbly, with an ease and a subtlety that it did not yet have to this degree in Lille, last March, behind closed doors.
Except that it was with the same conductor, François-Xavier Roth, with whom she recorded it since.
She appeared on Saturday evening completely liberated, perhaps because she did not have to worry about either staging or acoustics: a well-spoken and well-singing Mélisande, whose restraint preserves the mystery of the character.
Perverse effect of
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