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Lea Desandre is the new star of the opera scene: born in 1993, the French-Italian mezzo-soprano has a beautiful timbre, a delicate style, and what Mozart once termed a “flexible throat” in his depiction of a singer, meaning coloratura skill. At the Salzburg Festival, she wowed audiences as Mozart’s Despina and Cherubino, and in Lucerne she almost stole the show from Cecilia Bartoli as Annio in La clemenza di Tito. No wonder she was named “Singer of the Year” by Opus Klassik in 2022. Her projects with the Jupiter Ensemble and the excellent British lutenist Thomas Dunford, who is also her partner in real life, are particularly impressive. The concerts are atmospherically choreographed, and you can tell that Desandre has also trained in ballet. They have now created a Vivaldi program specifically for Lucerne Festival, in which everything revolves around love, jealousy and despair, consisting of opera arias, sacred works, and concertos. And the aim? To prove that so-called early music is far from outdated but in fact highly topical.
