Watch: Pianist, 95, plays at empty Paris Opéra

Watch: Pianist, 95, plays at empty Paris Opéra

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norman lebrecht

May 13, 2021

For 35 years, Odette Chaynes was senior pianist at the Paris Opéra, responsible for rehearsing singers and accompanying them in recital.

During the Covid winter she returned to give a recital of her own. Aged 95, she was filmed by her grandson, the TV chief Joel Bruandet.


photo (c) Joel Bruandet

Comments

  • christopher storey says:

    Great stuff ; and how infrequently do we hear the D minor these days ?

  • henry williams says:

    wonderful she looks well for 95. she can
    get on and off a piano stool. iam much
    younger and it is hard for me to get off
    a toilet seat.

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