[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":52},["ShallowReactive",2],{"\u002Fen\u002Fabout":3},{"bio":4,"interview":27},{"body":5},{"type":6,"value":7,"toc":23},"minimark",[8,17,20],[9,10,11,12,16],"p",{},"Greek-Luxembourgish mezzo-soprano ",[13,14,15],"strong",{},"Daphné Souvatzi"," has developed a distinctive artistic world at the crossroads of the Baroque repertoire and Mediterranean musical traditions. Shaped by the languages, stories, and landscapes of the South, her voice reveals the resonances that connect cultures across borders and eras.",[9,18,19],{},"An invited artist in France and internationally, she has performed at venues and festivals including the Philharmonie Luxembourg, the Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier, the Opéra de Lille, and Trinità dei Monti in Rome, as well as the Festival Classica in Montréal and the Samos Young Artists Festival in Greece. She performs both as a soloist and in cross-cultural projects that bring together the Baroque repertoire, Mediterranean traditions, and new creation.",[9,21,22],{},"A Fondation Royaumont laureate, Daphné Souvatzi seeks, through each of her projects, to reveal\nthe invisible bridges connecting the languages, memories, and sensibilities of the Mediterranean.",{"title":24,"searchDepth":25,"depth":25,"links":26},"",2,[],[28,31,34,37,40,43,46,49],{"question":29,"answer":30},"You studied biology and ecology before devoting yourself to music. What prompted this change?","I think I have always been looking for the same thing, simply using different tools. In both science and music, it is about observing, listening, and understanding the balances within living systems. I began by studying ecosystems; today, I am interested in those of sound. There is the same sense of rigour, along with an element of intuition. In the end, music became my space of freedom.",{"question":32,"answer":33},"Your Greek roots have a strong presence in your musical world. How do they inform your work?","They remind me where I come from. The Mediterranean is a way of inhabiting the world and connecting with others. I grew up with the languages, songs, flavours, and stories that travel from one shore to another. When I sing, this memory naturally comes to the surface: in my love of ornamentation, dance rhythms, and melismas. Even in the Baroque repertoire, I hear that warmth, light, and pulse of the South.",{"question":35,"answer":36},"Your repertoire is very wide-ranging: Baroque, Mediterranean music, and jazz. What connects these worlds?","Freedom, without hesitation. These are musical forms that leave room for interpretation, listening, and encounter. Each has its own codes and history, yet they all invite me to remain fully alive in the moment. I love it when music retains an element of the unexpected, when something can emerge from a shared breath or a particular energy between musicians. It is this sense of movement that moves me.",{"question":38,"answer":39},"How do you cultivate this sense of freedom on stage?","Above all, it is a matter of listening. Nothing is ever completely fixed: I let myself be carried by the audience, the musicians, and the breath of the moment. Sometimes a nuance, a silence, or a glance is enough to transform the colour of a performance. It is a form of total presence, at once fragile and intense, that leaves room for surprise and for a certain magic of the living moment.",{"question":41,"answer":42},"You often speak of the body, taste, and the texture of sound...","Yes, because singing is profoundly physical. Sound is born in the body before travelling towards others. I need to reconnect with this sensory relationship to music: to feel the sound, almost to touch it. I also love the connections with cooking, dance, and craftsmanship. They all raise the same questions of material, rhythm, gesture, and balance. All of this nourishes the way I sing.",{"question":44,"answer":45},"Teaching also seems to hold an important place in your journey.","Yes, very much so. Teaching allows me to pass on tools, of course, but also a way of listening to and inhabiting music. I enjoy accompanying each person as they discover their own voice. This work also nourishes my practice as an artist: it constantly reminds me that music is, above all, a human adventure and an act of sharing.",{"question":47,"answer":48},"How would you define your artistic identity today?","I am a classical singer deeply attached to the Baroque repertoires and Mediterranean cultures that have shaped me. I like to bring these heritages into dialogue with other horizons and create bridges between eras, languages, and sensibilities. My work probably lies somewhere in that space: between memory and movement, rootedness and openness.",{"question":50,"answer":51},"And tomorrow?","To keep searching. To deepen the connections between the repertoires that nourish me, imagine new artistic encounters, and remain faithful to what has always driven me: curiosity. To keep the door open to the unexpected, because that is often where the most beautiful emotions are born.",1788987972436]