She admits it while laughing:
“I didn't see the time pass.
In my head, moreover, I am still 25 years old.
And it's always a conservatory atmosphere and an opera troupe!”
A troupe spirit that the famous French mezzo-soprano will summon this Sunday, on the stage of the Opéra Comique, in Paris.
At the invitation of Instant Lyrique, of which she is the godmother, Karine Deshayes will celebrate her twenty-five-year career there.
Surrounded by some of her most faithful friends.
Singers, of course.
Natalie Dessay, whom she likes to describe as her
"big sister"
with grateful affection.
Delphine Haidan, a
"thirty-year-old friend"
, with whom she forms a duo on record and on stage (Two mezzos or nothing).
The baritone Paul Gay (
"We started together as a troupe at the Lyon Opera"
).
The counter-tenor Philippe Jaroussky or the tenor Cyrille Dubois,
“with whom I shared so many irresistible memories of productions and concerts…”
.
But also instrumentalists of all…
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