Endearing and uninhibited.
These are, for Sabine Devieilhe, interpreter of the title role of Thérèse in
Les Mamelles de Tirésias
currently playing at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the two adjectives that come to mind when it comes to qualifying the Poulenc lyrical.
Two qualities that could, according to her, explain her timeless success.
If we put aside the UFO represented by
Saint François d'Assise
by Olivier Messiaen, the composer, who came late to the lyrical genre, indeed remains to this day the last great Frenchman whose operas have really passed to posterity.
And which remain regularly played in the four corners of the planet.
From the Vienna Opera to the Metropolitan Opera in New York, passing of course through Paris, but also some more exotic destinations such as Thessaloniki or Australia... For the 2022-2023 season alone, there are on the referencing site Operabase twenty-three productions dedicated to the one that the critic Claude Rostand immortalized...
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