Aix-en-Provence Festival: Elsa Dreisig as a “butterfly trapped in its chrysalis”
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French-Danish soprano Elsa Dreisig reinvents the powerful and endearing character of Louise. MONIKA RITTERSHAUS
Elsa Dreisig is back on the bill at the Aix Festival in early July, playing the title role in Charpentier's opera Louise . The young Franco-Danish soprano tells us how she reinvented this powerful, endearing, and unsettling character in a co-production with the daring director Christof Loy. A work within a work.
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I subscribeWhen Elsa Dreisig thinks of Louise, the heroine of Gustave Charpentier's eponymous opera, she feels this character in her whole body, "in need, under tension, in urgency" . It must be said that when we meet the affable soprano, mid-June, in a garden in Aix, she has been shaping this role of "butterfly locked in its chrysalis, inhabited by a thousand voices, aspiring to live her life" for four weeks. Louise, the only daughter of a working-class family, in the grip of a toxic, unhealthy relationship with her parents, who refuse to marry her to the chosen one of her heart, a young bourgeois bohemian.
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