Ute Lemper`s newest creation is a song cycle to the love poems of

Artistic concept and production by Ute Lemper
12 songs written by Ute Lemper
with collaborations by Marcelo Nisinman
Ute Lemper's newest creation is a song cycle
to the love poems of Pablo Neruda.
This very delicate and beautiful songbook is presented mainly in
Spanish, but also has adaptations in French and English. It is a fantastic
celebration of these especially sensual poems by Neruda who had
written them on the Chilean Isla Negra after years in exile.
Born Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto in 1904, Pablo Neruda
took his pen name after the Czech poet Jan Neruda.
The album will be released soon,
with the following tracklisting:
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12.
La nuit dans l'ile (French adaption)
Madrigal escrito in inverno
If you forget me (English adaption)
Tus Manos
El viento en la Isla
Allianza/ Sonata
Tour Dates
Ute will be performing this program at the
Rumors Festival in Verona on 21 June
2013. In September, she will tour Australia,
then South America in October 2013 (10
(Partly English adaption)
days in Argentina and Brazil). In January
Siempre
Always (English adaption)
Aucensia (Partly French adaption)
El Sueno
Oda con un Lamento
The saddest Poem /N.20
2014 she will perfomr in Mexico and Chile,
(English adaption)
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followed by a European tour later in 2014.
"Ute Lemper sings Pablo Neruda" is the
first half of the performance and her
greatest hits is the second half. Please
see the tour dates on the official website
Neruda became known as a poet in his teens, and wrote in a variety
of styles from surrealist to overtly political tones, as well as eroticallycharged love poems. These poems are what Ute’s Neruda Song
Cycle is based on.
Because of his politically charged activities and writings, when
President González Videla outlawed communism in Chile in 1948,
Neruda was forced into exile. In 1971 he was awarded the Nobel
Prize for Literature.
Neruda also collaborated with Picasso on highly politically inspired
works, and Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez once
called him "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language."
In 1973, around the time of the Augusto Pinochet coup d'état,
Neruda was diagnosed with cancer and died the same year.
Pinochet had denied permission to transform Neruda's funeral into
a public event, however, his legendary status prompted thousands
of grieving Chileans to disobey the curfew and crowd the streets.
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biography
Ute Lemper’s career is vast and varied. She has made her mark on the stage, in
films, in concert and as a unique recording artist. She has been universally praised
for her interpretations of Berlin Cabaret Songs, the works of Kurt Weill and Berthold
Brecht and the French Chanson Book. As well as her own compositions and the
more Jazz influenced collaborations and works. In the world of theater Ute made
her mark with her portrayals on Broadway, in Paris and in London’s West End.
Her newest concert is Ultimo Tango, an entirely new show, presenting a journey
through the songs of Astor Piazzolla, the fabulous Argentinian composer of Tango,
and the words of the Poet Horacio Ferrer. Ute sings in the original Spanish and created
adaptations of these stories of love, abandonment, decadence and passion in
Buenos Aires, Berlin, Paris and New York, in French, German and English. She recently
completed a world tour with the original Astor Piazzolla Sextet from Buenos Aires.
Ute just completed a concert series with the Jazz at Lincoln orchestra and Wynton
Marsalis, at Rose Hall in New York City, dedicated to the music of Kurt Weill.
Very different is Ute’s other new creation, The Bukowski
Project, a rather avant-garde, adventurous collage in music
and songs of the poetry of Charles Bukowski. This homage to
the poet was invented and largely composed by Ute herself
with the collaboration of her partner Todd Turkisher and her
pianist Vana Gierig.
Ute just recorded her new CD Paris Days/Berlin Nights with
the Vogler String Quartet and Stefan Malzew on Piano. It is
a beautiful semi-classical recording featuring songs between
love and war, composed by Hans Eisler, Kurt Weill, Jacques
Brel, Edith Piaf and Astor Piazzolla, and also Folksongs in
Yiddish and in Russian. The release of the CD was followed
by an extensive North American Tour in March and April of
2012.
As the absolute newest creation Ute composed together
with Marcelo Nisinman (bandoneonist and composer of his
own works) Ute Lemper Sings Pablo Neruda, a song cycle
to the love poems of Pablo Neruda. She presents this very
delicate and beautiful songbook mainly in Spanish, but also
with adaptations in French and English. It is a fantastic homage
to the poet Pablo Neruda and Ute is very excited about this
collaboration with Marcelo.
Ute was born in Munster, Germany and completed her studies at The Dance
Academy in Cologne and the Max Reinhardt Seminary Drama School in Vienna.
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Her professional debut in theater after her studies at the Max Reinhardt Seminar
was the Fassbinder play “Katzelmacher” at the Stuttgarter Staatstheater and a
collaboration with Jerome Savary “Bye Bye Showbiz”. On the musical stage she
starred in the original Vienna production of Cats in the roles of Grizabella and
Bombalurina, as Peter Pan in Peter Pan (Berlin) and Sally Bowles in Jerome
Savary’s Cabaret (Paris) for which she received the Moliere Award for Best Actress
in a Musical. She played Lola in The Blue Angel (Berlin) and Maurice Bejart created
a ballet for her, La Mort Subite (Paris). Ute also collaborated with Pina Bausch and
her Tanztheater on the Weill Revue.
Ute created the part of Velma Kelly in London’s production of Chicago in the West
End, for which she was honored with the Laurence Olivier Award, and moved to
the Broadway production after one year.
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biography
Ute Lemper’s solo concerts, which include Kurt Weill, Berthold Brecht Recitals,
Berlin Cabaret, Dietrich and Piaf, Jacques Brel, Leo Ferre, Kosma, Prevert, Sondheim,
Piazzolla and also Lemper’s Songs have been produced in prestigious venues throughout
the world. Her symphony concerts include The Seven Deadly Sins, Songs from Kurt
Weill, Songbook (Michael Nyman) and Songs from Weill, Piaf and Dietrich with
the symphony orchestras of London, Israel, Boston, Hollywood, San Francisco,
Berlin, The Paris Radio Symphony Orchestra, The Illusions Orchestra (Bruno
Fontaine) and the Michael Nyman Band (Michael Nyman). She also appeared in
Folksongs with the Luciano Berio Orchestra (Luciano Berio) and with The Matrix
Ensemble (Robert Ziegler) performing Berlin Cabaret Songs. She has performed with
the best symphony orchestras all over the world from Buenos Aires to Sydney.
Her celebrated recordings for DECCA include Ute Lemper Sings Kurt Weill (Vols. I
and II), Three Penny Opera, The Seven Deadly Sins, Mahagonny Songspiel,
Prospero’s Books (Michael Nyman), Songbook (Michael Nyman/Paul Celan), Illusions
(Piaf/Dietrich), City of Strangers (Prevert/Sondheim) and Berlin Cabaret Songs
(German and English versions). She was named Billboard
Magazine’s Crossover Artist of the Year for 1993-1994. In
early 2000, Decca/Universal Music released Punishing
Kiss, featuring new songs composed for her by Elvis
Costello, Tom Waits, Philip Glass, and Nick Cave. Her following
release on Decca, But One Day, featured new arrangements
of Weill, Brel, Piazzolla, Heymann and Eisler songs, as well
as the first recordings of her own compositions, for which
she wrote both lyrics and music. She has also recorded
Crimes of the Heart, Life is a Cabaret and Ute Lemper Live
for CBS Records and Espace Indecent, Nuits Etranges and
She Has a Heart for POLYDOR.
She recorded Blood and Feathers (available on both CD and
DVD), live at the Carlyle, one of New York’s hottest Cabaret
stages. It was released worldwide on DRG/Koch Records
and EDEL Records in Europe.
All That Jazz/The Best of Ute Lemper, which features highlights from her illustrious career to date was released in
1998. It accompanied her playing Velma Kelly in the London
production of Kander and Ebb’s Chicago for which she
received the 1998 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
After nine months in London’s West End, Ms. Lemper made
her Broadway debut in September 1998. A major highlight of her eight months American
engagement in Chicago was starring with Chita Rivera in the Las Vegas premiere
in March 1999.
Her recent album, Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, consists entirely of selfpenned music and lyrics, and Ute enjoyed co-producing all of her songs together
with her partner Todd Turkisher.
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In film, her many credits include L’Autrichienne (Pierre Granier-Deferre), Prospero’s
Books (Peter Greenaway), Moscow Parade (Ivan Dikhovichni), Prêt-à-Porter
(Robert Altman), Bogus (Norman Jewison) and the most recent releases, Combat de
Fauves (Benoit Lamy), A River Made to Drown In (James Merendino) and Appetite
(George Milton). She has appeared on television in Rage/Outrage, The Dreyfus Affair
(Arte), Tales from the Crypt (HBO), Ute Lemper Sings Kurt Weill (Bravo), Illusions
(Granada), Songbook (Volker Scholendorff), The Wall (Rogers Waters) and The
Look of Love (Gillian Lynn).
Ms. Lemper lives in New York with her four children, Max, Stella, Julian and Jonas.