Ute Lemper Tickets

After sell-out Opera House concerts in 2000, charismatic German chanteuse Ute Lemper, famed for her interpretation of works by Kurt Weill, Marlene Dietrich and Edith Piaf returns to the Concert Hall to perform songs from her much-loved cabaret repertoire, selected from a career spanning Berlin to Broadway. In addition, the award-winning singer and actress will perform a very special song cycle of love poems by acclaimed Latin poet Pablo Neruda.
 
Celebrated for her performances of luminary works by Berthold Brecht, the French Chanson Book and poems of Charles Bukowski, Lemper collaborated with Argentinian bandoneonist Marcelo Nisinman to create the delicate and beautiful song cycle, performing them in Spanish, French and English. 
 
Nobel prize-winning Neruda, who wrote the sensual poems on the Chilean Isla Negra while in exile, is widely considered “the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language" according to Colombian novelist Gabriel Garca Mrquez.

Lemper’s breathtakingly vocal and dramatically visual presentation of the poetry has been universally praised, and she is widely celebrated for her intense musicality, dynamic performances and stunning persona.
 
Throughout her broad and varied career, Lemper has made her mark on the world stage in cabaret theatre, films, live in concert and as a unique recording artist with her own compositions as well as more Jazz-influenced collaborations. Her solo concerts have been produced in prestigious venues throughout the world and include concerts with Michael Nyman and a jazz series with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Orchestra at Rose Hall in New York City, as well as concerts with the world’s best symphony orchestras from Buenos Aires to Sydney.
 
For her celebrated recordings she has had songs composed for her by Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Philip Glass and Nick Cave, winning Billboard Magazine's Crossover Artist of the Year in 1994.
 
In the world of theatre, Lemper has performed to popular and critical acclaim on stages in Broadway, Paris and London. She was honoured with the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for creating the part of Velma Kelly in the West End production of Chicago.
 
Her many film credits include major motion pictures for luminary auteurs such as Peter Greenaway (Prospero’s Books) and Robert Altman (Prt-Porter).
 
Based in New York, the chanteuse has most recently been invited to perform for the President of the United States, Barack Obama and the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel at a private dinner in June, selected as the artist most representative of American-German relations through music.

*Song Cycle of Love Poems Written by Ute Lemper in collaboration with Marcelo Nisinman. Created and produced by Ute Lemper.