One privilege of being among Canada’s greatest sopranos: if you want to perform Monteverdi and jazz legend Nina Simone in the same program, that’s your prerogative. Is this genre-straddling really such a stretch? Apparently not for Measha Brueggergosman, whose towering stature rests on her career as an interpreter of both the classical tradition and the Great American Songbook. It may be Measha’s operatic virtuosity that earned her a spot on the Deutsche Grammaphon roster, but it’s her performances of African American spirituals that so often move audiences to tears.
This concert is part of Measha’s ongoing artist–in-residency with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, which allows her — and them— to explore unique pairings of repertoire suggested by Measha.
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