He started in French electro. Now he’s musical director of the Olympics. He talks about playing Macron his club-banger anthem, defying the far right and sampling workers on Notre Dame
‘I feel like I’m on top of a mountain, about to jump into a lake. But naked and in front of the entire world.” So Victor le Masne told me on the eve of the Olympics opening ceremony, speaking from an undisclosed location outside of Paris, where he had been monitoring rehearsals.
It has been two years since he accepted the role as musical director for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, a journey which began, he says, “alone in the studio, jamming on the piano, searching for a theme,” and has culminated in 12 hours of music written for four national orchestras and around 600 musicians. “You don’t really have a sense of scale when you begin. Now we are here, and the reality is kicking in.”
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