Bachelot advises the prosecution after complaint for sexual assault at the Opera

Roselyne Bachelot in July 2020 -

To "put an end to the law of silence that reigns in the opera".

The Ministry of Culture announced on Tuesday that it had made a report to the public prosecutor after the complaint for sexual assault filed by Chloé Briot against a baritone.

On August 17, the French soprano revealed to the musical review

 had been the victim of repeated sexual assault by a fellow singer who played the male title role in the production of the contemporary opera

by Joël Pommerat.

Facts dating back to 2019

The facts go back according to her between October 2019 and February 2020, on the set of the Opéra-Comique, in Paris, where the show was created, as well as at the Operas of Rennes and Nantes, where it had been repeated.

"The Ministry of Culture has decided to file a report with the Public Prosecutor under article 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure," he said in a statement.

It "intends, more generally, to show its firm desire to take the full measure of gender-based and sexual violence in the musical world", underlines the text.

A work of alert, prevention and support for training, production and distribution structures will thus be carried out in conjunction with the National Music Center, "by involving the representatives of the artists", he explains. .

"The result of this work will be presented to the Minister of Culture (Roselyne Bachelot) at the end of 2020".

"He felt my right breast"

The singer told

 that “during rehearsals and spinning, I couldn't tell my colleague that I didn't like the way he touched me”.

“Of course, we had to play a sex scene, but he always acted beyond the framework of the director's proposals and systematically made me pass for a 'boring' with the latter”, added the artist, who held the first role in the opera,

"Terrorized at the idea of ​​making a mess in the production", the young woman was silent during the rehearsals before the premiere at the Opéra-Comique.

When the show resumed in Rennes in January, then in Nantes, the touching recurred, according to her.

"In full performance, he palpated my right breast like plasticine" and in another scene "he violently spread my legs by putting his head on my cock," she told the music magazine.

She claims that this behavior has not changed although she reported it to the director and opera directors concerned, until Olivier Mantei, director of the Opéra-Comique, dismisses the singer. takeovers planned until 2024.

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