Marnie Breckenridge is an American

soprano whose repertoire extends from the baroque to the bel canto to themodern. 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’sCoronation Mass last spring. She’ll be the vocal lead inJacqueline, a new operaabout cellist Jacqueline du Pré, when it debuts here in Toronto at TapestryOpera later this month.

Marnie and Michael talk about breaking expectations, long bus rides, car

crashes, compositional techniques, and what makes contemporary classical musicso 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 BeGay” 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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