PORTRAIT – She hesitated for a long time between Saint-Cyr and a metal group, before becoming an opera singer. This is how Marina Viotti is, who was seen singing Bizet at the window of the Conciergerie for the Olympic Games. In September, she will be in Faust at the Paris Opera.
This article comes from Figaro Magazine
Even Instagram’s sophisticated algorithms get lost and freak out when it comes to her. She is certainly unpredictable, eclectic, surely versatile and perhaps a bit of a jack-of-all-trades, although she doesn’t like the word. And yet, what opera singer can claim to have started her career in metal? Her father was a conductor, her mother a violinist and little Marina, while playing the flute, amused herself by parodying female singers.
Today, she no longer imitates them: the whole world saw her, during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, at the window of the Conciergerie, singing the famous Ah! it will be fine, it will be fine, it will be fine accompanied by the French metal group Gojira. That same day, the whole world applauded her in her interpretation of Bizet’s famous Habanera, as an insolent and splendid Carmen in her “love is a rebellious bird”, which suits him so well. And yet, before this triumph, the road was long.
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