'Nico' loves Anja's voice!

Last night, nostalgia came upon me with so much strength that I had to find the voice I know so well and I miss again because fate is against us somehow!
My secret and discreet diva is not fit to face the Bastille Ballo in maschera tonight. I was meant to be in Paris and not feeling on top of the world myself I could not face to travel for another Ballo without her as Amelia. So I Emailed my ticket to good friends in Paris and cancelled train and hotel room...
My only consolation was to find her voice in this role, and going through  youtube I found a Ballo excerpt  I had not yet discovered: 'Morro,ma prima in grazia' which is in act IIIe  the most heartbreaking musical moment, as Amelia as a mother is begging her husband to have permission  to embrace her son for the last time before death, a short aria di bel canto with a cello counterpart all along the soprano part. With Zubin Mehta 's soft tempis both voice and cello  manage to really move me here. I thank 'Nico' so much for this choice and somehow remember how upset I was that night in Munich during this aria before the longer 'l'orrido campo'.

Then I realised the youtubber  'Nico'who uploaded this live aria sung by Anja Harteros the night of the première (and if it is so I was in the Staatsoper that night in 2016 too) was not unknown to me. I thought that if 'Nico' posted that precise aria was because he loved the way Anja sang it . Suddenly I looked at the little picture and quickly thought I knew this face, this smile!
 ' Nico is a wonderful young French singer : Nicolas Courjal, with a splendid warm and strong voice, a basse I heard in Marseille Opera House several times now and that I will hear in  Bastille in May. Because of his love for Anja's voice and art of singing I love him  even more! One day, they will be singing together in Don Carlo? who knows?
(photo I took in Marseille Alcazar last June during the conference 'Capuleti e i Montecchi')