Mezzo-soprano Adèle Charvet is one of the youngest voices in French opera. She comes back with me Sant’Angelo Theater », a third album that pays homage to the famous Venetian theater made famous by Antonio Vivaldi.
It seems that as a child, Adèle Charvet dreamed of becoming either a singer or Beyoncé. With a Cameroonian grandfather, Originally from Algeria and Spain, she grew up in New York and then in Montpellier with the poet Frédéric Jacques Temple, who introduced her to German song and French melody.
She studied in Paris, between the choir of the Conservatory of the 13th arrondissement, a youth steeped in jazz and a brief transition to the mastery of Radio France. Thanks to her virtuoso mezzo-soprano voice, she is alternates between operas, concerts and recordings with obvious joy and greedy eclecticism. One day she saves a performance of Handel’s “Messiah” in the Radio France auditorium by temporarily replacing the countertenor. Once again – a few days ago in Cherbourg in Normandy – she lends her voice to the “Journal d’Hélène Berr”, the new premiere of the Belgian composer Bernard Focroulle.
After a first solo CD based 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 3ththrough whom she shares her love of Italian dramatic singing, that of Vivaldi and his contemporaries.
« Sant’Angelo Theater », the new album byAdele Charvet, comprised of a dozen previously unreleased songs, is available from Alpha Classics.
