The Franco-Spanish opera singer Béatrice Uria-Monzon Died on Saturday in Agen, in the southwest of France, following a long illness, at the age of 61, announced his agent on Facebook.
“A huge carmen”
She was “a huge artist, a huge Carmen,” said Thérèse Cédelle, her agent for almost 40 years, evoking a singer of a “high class”, “very frank, very sincere and very loved”.
Revealed in 1993 during his revolutionary interpretation of “Carmen” by Georges Bizet at the Paris Opera, the mezzo-soprano resumed this role on numerous occasions in the largest rooms around the world, from New York to Moscow.
“She was burning on stage,” added the agent, welcoming the “very great career to the international” of an “artist to the end of the nails”.
Evolving towards the Soprano repertoire, Béatrice Uria-Monzon has notably interpreted the “Tosca” or Lady Macbeth.
«Adieu Ma Béa»
In 2017, she played the Countess of Sérizy in the “trompe la mort” of Luca Francesconi at the Paris Opera, then “Adriana Lecouvreur” in Saint-Etienne, Margherita and Elena in “Mefistofele” at the Choregies of Orange, “La Gioconda” at the Royal de Currency Theater and Madeleine de Coigny in “Andrea Chénier”.
“What sorrow to lose a friend and a wonderful singer. Mezzo-soprano, it is the reference of the role of Carmen, ”posted on Instagram the former French Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot.
“Goodbye my béa,” reacted on Facebook the Italian tenor Roberto Alagna, who played Carmen by his side.
