It is always a great frustration to see the rehearsals of a forthcoming show stop overnight; frustration and disappointment for the artists, technicians and all the artistic and administrative staff of the theatres or ensembles concerned ... and of course for the audience.
This is what could have happened to the new production of Hippolyte et Aricie by Jean-Philippe Rameau, in rehearsal since the beginning of October at the Opéra Comique de Paris and which was to be given six times in November; however, thanks to the tenacity of the Opéra Comique's teams and the guest artists, we will still have the joy of discovering the show on Arte.tv, during a live broadcast on Saturday 14 November at 8 pm -then viewable for six months afterwards-, and on France Musique.
Two of our young artists are involved in this production, mezzo-soprano Séraphine Cotrez (role of Oeone) and baritone Edwin Fardini (role of Tisiphone).
Two promising and endearing young artists, concretely affected by the current crisis like all our artists, who have suffered entire months of cancelled engagements, one at the Montpellier Opera House, the other at the Glyndebourne Festival.
After studying at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon (Master's Degree in Lyric Singing in 2019) and at the Universität der Künst in Berlin, Séraphine Cotrez recently performed the roles of Clorinda (Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda by Monteverdi) and Venus (Il ballo delle ingrate by Monteverdi) at the Opéra de Reims with Les Paladins conducted by Jérôme Correas, Dardano (Handel's Amadigi) with these same Paladins, Mozart's Mass in C minor with the Orchestre de Cannes Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (conducted by Nicolas Krüger), Beethoven's Mass in C with the Orchestre de Massy (conducted by Constantin Rouits), or Rachmaninov's Vespers at the Philharmonie de Paris.
Edwin Fardini, also obtained his Master's degree in Lyric Art in 2019, but at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris; He was also named Classical Revelation of the ADAMI that same year and made his debut at the prestigious Teatro alla Scala in Milan (role of Pâris in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette), after having sung the solo baritone parts of Brahms' Requiem (conducted by Raphaël Pichon, then Patrick Davin) and Schumann's Manfred with the Orchestre de Paris conducted by Daniel Harding.
Photo credits :
Séraphine Cotrez © Nicolas Rinaldo
Edwin Fardini © Pascal Ito – Adami
Hippolyte et Aricie, J. Ph. Rameau
To be discovered on Arte.tv and France Musique, live from the Opéra Comique
