Clash Pop - De Maria Callas à Freddie Mercury

When the greatest voices of opera meet pop icons. From Maria Callas to Freddie Mercury, from Bellini to ABBA, from Casta Diva to The Winner Takes It All, this Clash Diva explores the same realm: that of iconic voices, unforgettable timbres, and emotions elevated to their highest degree. For opera and great pop share the same intensity: a taste for drama, for momentum, for excess, for raw fragility. With Bellini as with Queen, with Verdi as with ABBA or Michael Jackson, singing means giving everything: making the voice a theatre, breath a tension, the word an immediate truth. These are arias and songs we know by heart, melodies that move through us, voices we recognise in a second. Here, Bizet meets Dalida, Puccini encounters Barbra Streisand, Verdi reaches out to Whitney Houston, while Madonna, Kate Bush, Björk or Amy Winehouse, each in their own way, extend the brilliance of great lyrical figures. The meeting between Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé remains the perfect emblem: that of a world where lyricism and pop converge in virtuosity, theatricality, and absolute emotion.

Performers

Théophile Alexandre • countertenor

Manon Galy • violin

Yohan Hennequin • drums

Orchestre de Chambre de Toulouse