Roberto Alagna was Emilie Mazoyer's guest on Friday in the program "Musique!"
for his new album, "Le chanteur", in which he moves away from opera for French song.
But the tenor explains that he now also has other projects in new fields: cinema and musicals.
INTERVIEW
With his new French song album,
Le chanteur
, Roberto Alagna continues to navigate between opera and variety.
Despite the postponement of his representation of
Carmen
at the Stade de France, he multiplies new projects.
The most famous of French tenors is indeed on the verge of exploring more distant artistic horizons, as he explains on Friday in the program
Musique!
on Europe 1. The spectators should find it in particular in a musical and in the cinema.
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The musical is a genre that Roberto Alagna had not tackled until now, although he sang "a few extracts, including
West Side Story
and
I Love Paris
".
For his premiere, the tenor will not embody a stranger.
"I'm not going to dance, because I'll be Al Capone, who didn't dance. But he sang because he loved opera. And there will be some kind of operatic surprises in it."
The mafia around the corner
The project is well advanced since 150 dates are already planned.
"It's a new world that is opening up to me", rejoices Roberto Alagna.
His fans will also find him at the cinema.
If he's already appeared in a few films, the tenor's new projects should generate interest.
"I was offered 2-3 films, including one where I would have to play my own role," he explains.
"And then another, where I know where I'll be the teacher of, hold on tight, Franck Sinatra. It'll be a small role but it's still fun. We'll see if it all comes together."
His two projects on Frank Sinatra and Al Capone are therefore not very far from the history of the mafia.
A mafia for which Roberto Alagna had sung at the beginning of his career.
The circle is complete.