8th March

Concert will begin at 19:00 hours GMT

7th Overseas Voices Competition Final from Paris

7th Overseas Voices Competition – 2025 Final at the Opéra Bastille. Finalists Giovanni Bernabé, baritone (originaire de la Martinique / Île de France), Thalia Garson, soprano (Guadeloupe), Noémie Collumeau, soprano (Saint-Pierre et Miquelon), Cédric Barabas, countertenor (Martinique), Oksana Mesmin, mezzo-soprano (Guyane), Cassandra Bortalis, soprano (Guadeloupe/ Île de France), Mytsuru Kato, mezzo-soprano (Polynésie française), Livio Heafala, tenor tenor (Nouvelle-Calédonie), Orléonne Divo Prince, soprano (La Réunion), Helena Lopez, soprano (Mayotte), Laetitia Volcey, soprano (La Réunion / Île de France), and Alice You-Seen, soprano (La Réunion / Île de France), perform with Kazuko Iwashima, piano.

During the Jury deliberation, former winners of the competition perform:

BIZET: Carmen: Chanson bohémienne 'Les tringles des sistres'. Winona Berry: Carmen.

PUCCINI: Lauretta 'O mio babino caro¡. Livia Louis-Joseph Dogué: Lauretta.

GERSHWIN: Porgy and Bess: Medley. Ludivine Turinay, soprano, Julienne Mahailet, soprano, Auguste Truel: baritone, Joseph Cange, bass-baritone. Ensemble Voix des Outre-mer.

PUCCINI: Turandot: Liu 'Signore ascolta'. Aïda Telhine: Liu.

OFFENBACH: La Belle Hélène: Le jugement de Pâris 'Au mont Ida'. Vanel Djoko: Pâris.

Ambroise THOMAS: Mignon: Mignon 'Connais tu le pays où fleurit l'oranger'. Axelle Saint-Cirel: Mignon.

Recorded 8 January.