EVENT LINK: https://tinyurl.com/sing-sistah-sing
October 26th, 8pm EST, Virtual, Free
Sing Sistah Sing!
Andrea Baker - Mezzo
Albert Horne - Piano
About:
Sing Sistah Sing! is the first work conceived and written by internationally renowned Mezzo Soprano Andrea Baker. Andrea began her operatic career with the San Francisco Opera, and now resides in Scotland. The show is both a celebration of the sound and extraordinary breadth of the African American female voice, and a heartfelt retelling of some of their most incredible life stories.
Sing Sistah Sing! brilliantly weaves together these women’s brave struggles both in the civil rights movement and in their fight for artistic freedom both at home and abroad. Some have chosen opera, jazz or blues to express themselves. Celebrated artists include Leontyne Price, Marian Anderson, Donna Summer, Nina Simone and Billie Holiday.
Andrea Baker, herself an artistic trailblazer, is the first African American to sing Fricka, Waltraute, Erda and 2nd Norn in Wagner’s great Ring Cycle in the Chinese premiere of the work at the Beijing Arts Festival, the first African American Carmen in Australia at the Sydney Opera House and the first African American to sing the role of Ortrud in the South Korean premiere of Wagner’s Lohengrin at the Daegu Opera Festival. In 2020 Andrea became an Ambassador for The Nevis Ensemble, Scotland’s Street Orchestra, bringing music to everyone everywhere.
With the award-winning Sing Sistah Sing! Andrea Baker tells her own deeply personal story and pays joyful, soulful and varied musical homage to many of the women who courageously paved the way. Andrea began to discover that their stories were also her story and that she too would continue to lay the path for the next generation.
Andrea is joined by South African pianist and specialist chorus master Albert Horne.
About the livestream
This livestream is FREE and will be available only during the concert as it happens and will not be available after the concert ends. You can only gain access to watch our livestream by signing up to this event page.
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