The mezzo-soprano Adèle Charvet is one of the youngest voices in French opera. She comes back with Teatro Sant’Angelo », a third album which pays homage to the famous Venetian theater made famous by Antonio Vivaldi. (Rebroadcast May 15, 2023)
It seems that as a child, Adèle Charvet dreamed of being either a singer or Beyoncé. With a Cameroonian grandfather, origins in Algeria and Spain, she grew up in New York then in Montpellier, alongside the poet Frédéric Jacques Temple, who introduced her to German Lied and French melody.
She studied in Paris, between the choir of the conservatory of the 13th arrondissement, an adolescence steeped in jazz, and a brief passage through the mastery of Radio France. Thanks to her virtuoso mezzo-soprano voice, she alternates operas, recitals and recordings with obvious pleasure and a gourmet eclecticism. One day in the auditorium of Radio France, she saves a performance of Handel’s Messiah by replacing the countertenor at short notice. Another – a few days ago in Cherbourg, Normandy – she lends her voice to “Journal d’Hélène Berr”, the new world premiere of Belgian composer Bernard Foccroulle.
After a first solo disc around Susan Manoff’s piano and English scores by Copland, Britten and Barber. A second to sublimate the Stabat Mater of Pergolesi. Here is the 3rd, through which she shares her love of Italian dramatic vocality, that of Vivaldi and his contemporaries.
” Teatro Sant’Angelo », the new album ofAdele Charvet, composed of a dozen previously unreleased songs, is available from Alpha Classics.