Marina Viotti

The young French Swiss singer Marina Viotti can already look back on an unusual background and a meteoric rise in her career: at first, she studied the flute, experimented with jazz, Gospel songs and heavy metal and graduated as Master of Philosophy and Literature. Today she is among the most successful mezzo-sopranos of her generation, inspiring public and press alike in the major roles in her vocal category. In addition, she performed at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris in July 2024.

Carmen, Rosina, Prince Orlofsky and Octavian are among her star roles, but especially the music of the Baroque era is where her heart beats fastest! Together with the violinist Andrés Gabetta and the Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal she has compiled a very personal programme and says farewell for one evening to the grand opera stage: it’s true that Antonio Vivaldi, Nicola Antonio Porpora and Giovanni Porta were among the leading opera composers of their time, but gentle and intimate vocal compositions can also be found in their oeuvres, sometimes in tones of religious fervour, sometimes amorous bliss. Andrés Gabetta sets an instrumental counterpoint with violin compositions such as Pietro Locatelli’s Concerto gross Op.1 or Vivaldi’s bizarre “Grosso Mogul” Concerto.