Published on September 27, 2023 at 9:19 p.m. Modified on September 27, 2023 at 9:36 p.m.
“I have never had so many emotions in the theater.” The confession of this 84-year-old spectator, a great fan of operas and shows, is worth its weight in reference. And that’s true. When Maria Mettral, alias la Callas, evokes the burning gaze of this turning point in 1954 when the diva achieved immense success at La Scala in Milan by singing The Sleepwalker by Bellini, the Friends audience is under the spell. And in shock, because there is rage in the one who concludes this triumph with: “I won again.”
But the emotion is also light and happy in Master Class, a 1995 play by the American Terrence McNally, received its Swiss premiere in Carouge, after having been created in Paris with Fanny Ardant. Faced with Lorianne Cherpillod, Sarah Pagin and Erwan Fosset, playing the student singers who mature in pain through the advice of the star, the audience shudders with a particular emotion, that which comes from transmission and self-fulfillment. Without forgetting, of course, the opera arias, these brilliant pearls taken from The Sleepwalker, Macbeth et Tosca and sung with enthusiasm on the twirling piano of Nicolas Le Roy. Three times, joy.
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2023-09-27 19:37:32
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