INTERVIEW – The mezzo soprano, who sang with the metal group Gojira at the opening of the Olympics, releases “Melankholia”. Between pop and classical, she recounts her fight against cancer.
It’s a completely different face that she presents this fall. After hitting the headlines with his interpretation of Carmen and revolutionary song It will be fine with the metal group Gojira during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the mezzo soprano with the metal past Marina Viotti has just published Melancholia (Naive). Between Renaissance music and contemporary pop, she reveals a dark and very intimate side.
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She also reveals an unexpected voice of a disturbing naturalness. Upsetting, even, when she appropriates the hits of Neil Young or Lana Del Rey in a spirit of uninhibited fusion, Old Man or Born to Die. Or blends into the gothic poetry of John Dowland’s melodies with the simplicity of a storyteller, as in his unclassifiable Go, Crystal Tearswith accents more folk than renaissance.
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