Clash Pop - De Maria Callas à Freddie Mercury

When the greatest opera voices 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 raised to their highest degree.

For opera and great pop share the same intensity: a taste for drama, for momentum, for excess, for rawness laid bare.

In Bellini as in Queen, in Verdi as in ABBA or Michael Jackson, singing means giving everything: making the voice a theater, breath a tension, the word an immediate truth. These are airs and songs we know by heart, melodies that pass through us, voices we recognize in a second.

Here, Bizet crosses Dalida, Puccini meets Barbra Streisand, Verdi reaches out to Whitney Houston, while Madonna, Kate Bush, Björk or Amy Winehouse extend, each in their own way, 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 meet in virtuosity, theatricality and absolute emotion.

Performers Théophile Alexandre • countertenor Manon Galy • violin Yohan Hennequin • drums Toulouse Chamber Orchestra