This Is Your Mixtape

44. Talk About Another World. [Marnie Breckenridge.]


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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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