Natalie Dessay is giving it all up
OperaThe French soprano has told France Musique that she will end her richly varied career in 2025, when she turns 60.
A rising talent at the Vienna Opera she was propelled by Pavarotti’s pugnacious manager Herbert Breslin to the Met where she enjoyed four or five seasons of a very particulaar stardom – getting the full diva treatment while remaining unfathomably herself.
She took spontaneous breaks from opera to act in French plays and to sing popular chansons.
Never quite a world star, Natalie Dessay was a unique art object and tremendous fun. We shall miss her.
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