![]() ![]() The unaccompanied start of Heggie’s “Music” (setting a text by Dead Man Walking’s Sister Helen Prejean about giving a man on death row a Walkman) is absolutely exposed – music cut through to the bone.īarton took us right down with her. ![]() Vocally very much the real deal, with a velvet-and-steel instrument and the technique to deploy it, she’s also an outspoken campaigner and advocate for all things marginalised, queer and body-positive, smashing the classical patriarchy one operatic ending at a time.Ī gender-fluid Carmen in Chicago was a recent sensation and there’s a big new opera from Heggie himself in Houston ahead, but here it was all about song, taking advantage of a Sunday-night slot to drag the classical recital out of the church and into the cabaret – chatting, joking, back-and-forthing with an audience whooping before she’d even sung a note.īut then she did.
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