Anne-Lise Polochlopek et Federico Tibone

“I imagined this recital as a gift, a great love letter to say thank you. This musical journey is a hymn to life, a universal song, bringing people together.” This is how mezzo-soprano Anne-Lise Polchlopek introduces her first album. “A moving record,” wrote Le Monde. She is accompanied by conductor and pianist Federico Tibone, who has already worked as assistant to Lawrence Foster and Michele Spotti at the Marseille Opera. The duo builds bridges rather than walls. Mozart meets Violeta Parra, and Bernstein winks at Cécile Chaminade over Fauré's shoulder. Opera rubs shoulders with song. Brel's Les Vieux amants becomes classical when Cherubino's aria sounds popular.

PROGRAM Works by Leonard Bernstein, Richard Strauss, Eduard Toldrà, Cécile Chaminade, Hubert Giraud, Manuel de Falla, Gabriel Fauré, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Michel Polnareff, Gerónimo Giménez, Gérard Jouannest/Jacques Brel, Olivier Messiaen, Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, Georges Bizet and Maurice Ravel.