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After discovering the theatre behind the scenes, participants will meet a top-level sportsmen and women and a professional opera singer who will explain the similarities and differences between their professions, and spoiler alert it’s not so far away as one might think.
Don’t miss this unique occassion combining lyrisme and sports!
Age : from 9 yrs old, public
Number of places are unfortunately limited, so don’t wait to register
caroline.barras@lausanne.ch
021 315 40 59
Snowboard, Vaudois
Snowboardeur professionnel et musicien
5ème aux Jeux Olympiques de PyeongChang 2018, deux fois médaillé aux Championnats du monde (2017 et 2019)
Tennis, Lausanne
Tenniswoman
Olympienne (Pékin 2008, Rio 2016)
A tenu sa première raquette à l’âge de 3 ans
Top 10 WTA à deux reprises, Vice-Championne Olympique en double (2016)
Athlétisme, Genève
Athlète internationale de Para-Dressage jusqu’en 2017 et convertie à l’athlétisme depuis 2018
Paralympienne (Rio 2016), en route pour Tokyo 2020
4ème aux Championnats du monde en 2010
Athlétisme, Lausanne
Etudiante en relations internationales
Spécialiste du 200m et 4x100m (athlétisme)
Olympienne (Rio 2016), 1ère à l’Universiade de Naples 2019, Vice-Championne d’Europe U23
Waterpolo, Leeds
Anglais (Leeds)
Post-doctorant à l’EPFL
Olympien (vice-capitaine de l’équipe de Grande-Bretagne aux JO 2012)
Champion du commonwealth 2014
Volleyball, Lausanne
Capitaine du LUC
Double champion suisse (17-18 / 18-19) ainsi que MVP (Most Valuable Player) sur la saison 2017-2018 en LNA
Adrien a été formé au Paris Volley puis a mené sa carrière professionnelle en France (1 titre de champion), en Belgique et en Suisse (Amriswil et LUC, 3 titres en tout). Il a également joué beaucoup de matchs de Coupe d’Europe.
French-Italian mezzo-soprano born in Milan, Beatrice Nani joined the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne in 2014 in Brigitte Balleys’ class and obtained her Master’s degree in 2019. She is currently perfecting her skills with Marie-Ange Todorovitch and Jeanne-Michele Charbonnet. Passionate about theater, she trained with Gaëlle Bourgeois and Fiona Chauvin in Paris, and received valuable advice from Thierry Pillon, Jean-Yves Ruf and Shin Iglesias.
On stage, she was heard in Bouche à bouche by Maurice Yvain at the Théâtre Déjazet in Paris, in Bottesini’s Requiem at the Victoria Hall in Geneva. She created the role of Ella Maillart in Le Ruisseau noir by Guy-François Leuenberger at the Théâtre du Grütli in Geneva and interpreted Lois in Kiss me Kate by Cole Porter at the Théâtre du Galpon in Geneva. During the 2020 edition of the Georges Enesco International Competition in Paris, she won a special prize that will take her to Romania for her debut in the 2020-2021 season.
Accompanied by the young pianist Emilie Roulet, she also performs in concerts with their duo Battements d’Elles.
At the Opéra de Lausanne she performed the role of Louise in La Vie Parisienne in 2016, Cricri in Le chanteur de Mexico in 2017, Armelinde in Cendrillon by Pauline Viardot in 2018 and Duchess Totoche in Les chevaliers de la table ronde by Hervé in 2019. She also gives mediation workshops as part of the Youth Olympic Games in 2020 and creates a show for children, with baritone Joël Terrin.
The Swiss baritone studied at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne in the class of Frédéric Gindraux, before joining the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London to work with Prof. Rudolf Piernay. He collaborated with Dame Felicity Lott, François Le Roux, Graham Johnson and Eugene Asti. He sings several roles for the Opéra de Lausanne (Melchior in Menotti’s Amahl et les visiteurs du soir, Maximilian in Bernstein’s Candide, Urbain in Offenbach’s La vie parisienne, and creates recitals for children as well as a workshop during the Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne in 2020. He is also heard singing Weill’s Berliner Requiem at the Opera Choir’s special concert.
He has worked with the London Symphony Orchestra on several occasions, the BBC and the Wigmore Hall. He is part of the “French Song Exchange” between the Wigmore Hall and the Salle Cortot in Paris, where he has the chance to make his debut in 2019. As a Samling Foundation Artist, Joël Terrin receives the title of Ambassador of Melody for the Oxford Lieder Festival in 2020. He enters the concert placement of the Migros Culture Percentage, of which he is also a scholarship holder, as well as the Friedl-Wald and Colette Mosetti foundations. In 2020 he won the English Song Prize.