The internet site is much better and every thing seems to have improved a lot. When I arrived from Shanghai I went to Marseille to get my subscription .
I discovered the newly finished seafront with such a wide pedestrian aria facing the sea, plus the now famous shadow roof where life is upside down !
I discovered the new season with delight, rejoicing at two concerts, one with one of my favourite sopranos, Natalie Dessay and the other one with the veterant baritone Leo Nucci !
The season nearly starts with a thrilling belcanto opera : La Straniera. I will discover an opera I only followed on the net with Great Edita Gruberova, and then see younger singers I truly enjoy both as singers and artists: Patrizia Ciofi and Karine Deshayes.
I have an idea Marseille Opera House will be packed for the dress-rehearsal.
Last season ended quite early for me as I went to China at the end of March and missed the last productions.
Patrizia Ciofi is the soprano I have seen performing regularly here.
When she starts a new role she comes to us, either Avignon opera house or Marseille opera house! She is a belcantist and a dramatic soprano with a fragile look and yet such a powerful dramatic intensity in all her renditions.
I have seen her Lucias (Orange and Marseille), her Traviata(Avignon), her Juliette (Marseille) and her unforgettable Ophélie.( Each time it is possible to find my account here.)
It all started in Saint-Denis Cathedral when I witnessed her sing Clorinda, Combattimento (Monteverdi).
Her voice in this huge vessel had celestial wings....What a nice couple they made as actors - singers with Rolando Villazon too!(seen at Orange he was Edgardo she was Lucia....Donizetti. I will see her soon at Bastille, same Lucia ..some years after.)
PHOTO from Arte rendition of Combattimento, Last word from dying Clorinda' Pace'!(many thanks to Teresa59 for uploading).
Cheers to the new season starting soon with ...VERDI, of course!!!!
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