2023-08-23 11:00:00
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From an announced disaster, the Glanum festival in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence has been able to invent an evening that the public will remember for a long time.
By Olivier Bellamy The Glanum festival in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence has kept all its promises. © Laurent Carré Published on 08/23/2023 at 11:00
She was “the” star of the Glanum 2023 festival. Everyone was waiting for her. Saint-Rémy-Fa-Sol was delighted to welcome Pretty Yende. The same day, Provence split a full page (not very up to date) to announce his arrival. We were going to be able to hear the one who grew up in a township in South Africa during apartheid, then discovered opera, studied with Mirella Freni at La Scala in Milan, won the Placido Domingo competition…
Alas, two days before, crash! The soprano who triumphed in The astray et Manon at the Paris Opera had to rush back to Johannesburg at the bedside of his dying mother. The Alpilles festival, chaired by journalist Claude Weill and directed by cellist Henri Demarquette, found itself without its diva. A blow to…
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