Passion continues at the Theatre du Chatelet, Paris until 24 March. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Persuading Natalie Dessay, one of the world’s most celebrated and best-loved operatic sopranos, to play the unattractive and hysterical Fosca in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s 1994 Tony Award-winning Passion has to go down as […]
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Exclusive – soprano Natalie Dessay will star in Sondheim’s Passion at Theatre du Chatelet
The Theatre du Chatelet in Paris has pulled off quite a coup in signing the world-acclaimed French coloratura soprano Natalie Dessay to sing Fosca in their fifth Stephen Sondheim production, Passion, next spring. There was no Sondheim this year after A Little Night Music (2011), Sweeney Todd (2012), Sunday in the Park With George (2013) and Into the Woods (2014), but […]
