2023-09-30 16:14:52
An appearance worthy of the stars of post-war Italian cinema! In her most beautiful red dress, draped with a matching scarf, her face hidden by sunglasses, Marina Viotti, aka Angelina, shines brightly. On the stage of the Dresden Opera in Germany, she played her first Cinderella (Cinderella) by Rossini, a role that she will reprise in a few days at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (1). “ A character that took a while to be offered to me even though I felt it suited my voice well. As a mezzo, I have little opportunity to slip into the shoes of gentle and good women: I tend to sing about villains or seductresses! » If Angelina has a noble character and knows how to forgive those who have despised and mistreated her, she nevertheless demonstrates, in the production signed by director Damiano Michieletto, an assertive and sunny personality, magnified by the charisma of Marina Viotti .
Born in Switzerland but considering Paris as one of her “homes”, the artist has followed a whimsical path to lyrical art, which she readily likes to place in dialogue with other disciplines: music current in writing, as evidenced by What if the world was an opera? work that she has just published (1) with the philosopher Gabrielle Halpern. Crucible of emotions and dreams, of fantasies and multiple possibilities, place of hybridization between the sexes and reflection of the struggles between good and evil, power and servitude, laughter and tears, lyrical art there appears to be a codified art which, however, says the truth about so many things.
“You are the master!” »
«Being a singer requires sacrifices, intense preparation, an awareness of one’s strengths and limits. details this sportswoman who has tried rugby as well as paddle, cycling and running. But let’s not count on her to focus morbidly on her voice or the “overprotect”. “I tell my students, it’s not your voice that guides you, you are the master! “, pleads this former literature professor driven by a passion for teaching, to which she would like “ devote more and more ».
Marina Viotti appreciates tragic roles as much as “that she sings in a bubble of emotion until the curtain falls”that the comic characters «who need interaction with the public. A room that doesn’t laugh cuts your wings…» But she also regularly abandons the theater of others to become “director of herself” during recitals. «Accompanied on the piano or by an entire orchestra, I enjoy total freedom, moving from atmosphere to atmosphere, according to the program that I have concocted and which I defend as a storyteller would a story that is close to her. heart. »
A “hybrid” project
This spirit of anticipation also permeates his recording projects, such as «this very gothic CD around melancholy, for which the Aparté label gives me carte blanche”, rejoices the one who, in her younger years, immersed herself in the “extreme” world of metal. From John Dowland (1563-1626, Editor’s note) up to current songs, by combining the voice, the baroque lute and electronic music, here is another creation as I like them: hybrid! »
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