The singer Béatrice Uria-Monzon, “immense Carmen”, died at 61 years old

The singer Béatrice Uria-Monzon died this Saturday, July 19, in Agen following a long illness, at the age of 61.

Opera singer Franco-Spanish Béatrice Uria-Monzon died on Saturday in Agen from a long illness. Therefore, at the age of 61, announced her agent on Facebook.

She was “an immense artist. Furthermore, a huge Carmen,” told AFP Thérèse Cédelle, her agent for almost 40 years, evoking a singer of a “high class”, “very frank, very sincere and very loved”.

“She was burning on stage” – Singer béatrice uria-monzon, "immense carmen",

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 singer béatrice uria-monzon, “immense carmen”, towards the Soprano repertoire, Béatrice Uria-Monzon has notably interpreted the “Tosca” or Lady Macbeth.

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 Chorégies d’Orange, “La Gioconda” at the Royal de Currency Theater and Madeleine de Coigny in “Andrea Chénier”.

“What a sorrow to lose a friend. a wonderful singer,” the former Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot posted on Instagram. “Goodbye my béa”, reacted on Facebook the Italian tenor Roberto Alagna, who played Carmen by his side.

To pay tribute to him. France Télévisions announced that a special evening will be devoted to him on Tuesday on France 4, with the replay of the “Carmen” at the ancient theater of Orange, staged by Jérôme Savary, followed by the program “Orchestra armchairs” presented by Anne Sinclair which was devoted to her.