Feb 10 2020 69 mins 1
Marnie Breckenridge is an American
soprano whose repertoire extends from the baroque to the bel canto to the
modern. She’s also worked as an actor and a voice-over artist on television.
She made her Carnegie Hall debut singing the soprano solos in Mozart’s
Coronation Mass last spring. She’ll be the vocal lead in
Jacqueline, a new opera
about cellist Jacqueline du Pré, when it debuts here in Toronto at Tapestry
Opera later this month.
Marnie and Michael talk about breaking expectations, long bus rides, car
crashes, compositional techniques, and what makes contemporary classical music
so exciting and important.
Marnie’s five songs.
- Just a Piece of Sky by
Barbra Streisand (from Yentl). - I Still Believe by The
Call. - Cold by Annie Lennox.
- Final trio from Der
Rosenkavalier by Richard
Strauss. - Orphée Suite IV: Orphée and the
Princess by Philip Glass.
Show Notes.
Jacqueline at Tapestry
Opera, Feb 19–23, 2020.
Marnie’s website (includes videos of
performances, such as “Glitter and Be
Gay” from Candide, in a performance inspired by Marilyn Monroe).
Dog Days, an opera by David T.
Little.
Jersualem by Thomas
Schoenberger with Marnie Breckenridge.
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