She swallows her strong coffee in two sips, talks about John Adams for twenty minutes without stopping, and ends up apologizing, with a falsely embarrassed air: “
Excuse me, I talk nonstop.
Maybe you had questions?
" The tone is set.
At 51, Valentina Carrasco imposes her own tempo.
On stage as in life.
"
Lately, it's been rather prestissimo," she quips, referring to these round trips by TGV between the
Opéra de Bordeaux
and that of Paris, where she respectively staged, in March, La Favorite by Donizetti and Nixon in China by John Adams.
Two universes so opposite that I felt like I was in a spaceship connecting two galaxies!
“, she continues.
On the one hand, “
this tremendous margin of feeling of bel canto.
On the other, “
one of the last great masterpieces of the past century.
A piece of formidable rhythmic precision, where the challenge is to find your room for maneuver in an uninterrupted pulsation.
While giving...
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