Diva au bord de la crise de nerf

Live performance of the one woman show by irrepressable soprano Julia Migenes. Here she draws on her experiences in opera to invite us to look afresh at the genre she loves. And with audacious anecdotes she sketches out the life of an opera singer, using her iconoclastic and earthly humour to throw open the gates to the world of opera in all its preposterousness. JULIA MIGENES DIVA ON THE VERGE Drawing on her own experiences as a star of the opera, the irrepressible soprano Julia Migenes invites us to look afresh at the genre she loves, with an irreverent one-woman show which cuts a swathe through operatic preconceptions. For many, the world of opera is stuffy and exclusive: there are the incomprehensible lyrics; the improbable plots; the starving artists; lovelorn teenagers and consumptive leading ladies, played by large, decidedly middle-aged, singers, with very powerful lungs. Aimed at those who would not go to the opera and those who would not go back, Migeness iconoclastic and earthy humour, throws open the gates to the world of opera in all its splendour and preposterousness.