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A Tenor Sings Opera “From The Inside Out”
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A Tenor Sings Opera “From The Inside Out”

Parnassus Heights, SF

Sat, November 11, 2023, at 2:00 PM, PST
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    • Vaccine policy
    COVID vaccine not required
    Testing policy
    COVID testing not required
    Indoors
    This is an indoor event
    Mask policy
    Masks are recommended
    If you feel sick, stay home
    Pets
    Dogs live here
    Wheelchair access
    Not wheelchair accessible
    Kids
    Kid-friendly event

    This is a groupmuse

    A live concert in a living room, backyard, or another intimate space. They're casual and friendly, hosted by community members.

    Host

    Zane B. Superhost

    Erich Buchholz's repertoire includes opera and operetta arias and art songs from many different composers of classical music. Bizet, Schubert, Mascagni, Chopin and Sorozabal are composers you might hear at his concert. He accompanies himself on ukulele, and brings the volume and tone of his voice down to match the soft string instrument. It's a croony, lullaby version of the arias you know and love. It's like hearing the music "from the inside out".

    Before 2020, Erich's last engagement was singing Weill's "Seven Deadly Sins" in Germany with Ute Lemper and the Kammerakademie Potsdam. He sang the part of Fridolin on the Naxos recording of "The Rose of Stambul" by Leo Fall.

    What's the music?

    Deserto sulla terra from Il Trovatore --Verdi
    O Lola from Cavalleria Rusticana --Mascagni
    Simple Gifts --Copland
    I bought me a cat --Copland
    Ständchen --Schubert
    Je crois entendre encore from The Pearlfishers --Bizet
    Kalua --Hui Ohana
    No puede ser from La taberna del puerto --Sorozábal
    Kann nicht küssen from Die Blume von Hawaii --Abraham
    It never was you from Knickerbocker Holiday --Weill
    Ma mère, je la vois from Carmen --Bizet
    Flower Song from Carmen --Bizet

    texts and translations will be provided

    Where does this music come from?

    This program and style of performance stems from the year 2020, where I suddenly was out of work with gobs of time to practice. During the many hours of noodling around on my ukulele I developed a style which features operatic arias and classical songs, but instead of the usual full-throated approach to singing that fills a theater, I sing in a quiet lullaby-style with a very simplified ukulele accompaniment. It's like hearing the music from the inside out.

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