Special envoy to Bordeaux
Even more than the concert, the opera is the place of all the unexpected.
We had planned to go to the third performance of
Madame Butterfly
, by Puccini, the first lyrical production for the new director of the Bordeaux Opera, Emmanuel Hondré.
What look would be that of the director Yoshi Oïda, what musical vision that of the conductor Paul Daniel, would the distribution be homogeneous?
Questions that we ask ourselves as we approach a new show, completely eclipsed by the news of the day: suffering, the Korean soprano Karah Son, interpreter of the title role, lets it be known in the morning that she will not sing this evening.
And here comes the hunt for the rare bird.
Celine Byrne, 32-year-old Irish singer, is at home in the Republic of Ireland, she knows the role and can arrive in Bordeaux at 3 p.m.
Customary question: will she sing on the side of the stage while the titular, who knows the staging, mimes the role?…
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