“Not at your home with” Olivia Tournay Flatto Interview by AFPOB Trustee JC Agid

A moving body, notes in harmony, an emotion, a knowledge, a narrow door toward a new idea, an engine inherent to life, to the mere concept of human beings’ survival, science and art maintain an intimate relationship, two mirrors reflecting each other and focusing on the hope of creation.

A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) actually just metamorphosed Covid19 into a musical existence, similar to the work of a composer, an exceptional melody that could help science to better understand the mechanics and weaknesses of this devastating virus. Art in the service of science, science in the service of art. 

Olivia Tournay Flatto is no stranger to the crossover between these two fields. A scientist herself and President of the Pershing Square Foundation, she has developed a fund to support young researchers with bold and new ideas in the fight against cancer. Passionate about opera and ballet, she is a member of the Board of the Friends of the Paris Opera and Chairman in New York of the American Friends of the Paris Opera & Ballet (AFPOB), created 36 years ago in response to Rudolf Nureyev’s request to support a tour in the United States of the ballet company, which he directed at the time.

The halls of the Palais Garnier and the Opéra Bastille are now closed until further notice; laboratories are mostly concentrating their research on a Covid19 vaccine. Yet science and art—brain and heart—remain more than ever the essence of our lives.

Discover the full interview of “Not at your home with” Olivia Tournay Flatto by JC Agid here

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