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Rebecca Caine Is Thrilled to Be Performing in Owen Wingrave With Rebecca Caine is thrilled to be performing in Owen Wingrave with the Chicago Opera Theatre and is excited to announce that she will presenting her British recital featuring music from her solo album while in Chicago. Leading Ladies of the West End Stage Accompanied by Scott Gilmore Monday, May 18th 2009 7.00 pm. Center on Halsted 3656 N. Halsted, Chicago $20 - centeronhalsted.org $10 - students http://www.centeronhalsted.org/ A celebration of the Leading Ladies who graced West End Stage from 1900 to 1960 plus a few surprises! It was the beauty of the music that first attracted me to this repertory, but when I began looking into the women who made it famous, I became increasingly fascinated by their personalities, and the lives they led. They were among the most glamorous stars of their days, on a par with today’s movie and television celebrities. I do not seek to impersonate them but to interpret them. Their vocal qualities are quite different, from Gertie Millar’s soubrette charm in Moonstruck to Jose Collins’s richer operatic quality in Love Will Find a Way, Gertie Lawrence’s matchless style and Jessie Matthews energy and vivacity. Mary Ellis was a "cross-over" in the truest sense of the word, having started her career at The Metropolitan Opera, singing with Caruso and Chaliapin before she became a serious actress. Evelyn Laye starred in Bitter Sweet on Broadway. Lizbeth Webb could sound like a lyric soprano one minute and a 1950’s pop singer the next. Julie Andrews needs no introduction, being the most internationally famous of all these leading ladies, having become, like Jessie Matthews before her, a great movie star and one of the last true soprano voices in musicals. Rebecca Caine is a Canadian opera and musical theatre performer. She was born in Toronto and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She currently resides in London and studies with singing teacher and vocal coach Gerald Martin Moore who accompanied her at the Jermyn Street Theatre for her show “Leadnign Ladies” which NCS members attended in 2007. Career Caine’s career has been divided between opera and musical theatre, making her West End debut at 19 in the role of Laurey in Oklahoma!. She then sang the role of Eliza in My Fair Lady on a national tour. While making her debut at Glyndebourne as Amor in L'incoronazione di Poppea, she was asked to join the Royal Shakespeare Company where she created the role of Cosette in Les Misérables. After a successful West End run, she joined the original cast of Phantom of the Opera to play Christine opposite Michael Crawford. She then returned to Toronto to repeat the role in the Canadian premiere of Phantom. During her run in Toronto, she joined the Canadian Opera Company to make her North American operatic debut in the title role of Alban Berg's Lulu. This led to offers from numerous international opera companies ranging from Claudio Monteverdi to Peter Maxwell Davies, including Pamina, Despina, Susanna, Aminta (Il re pastore), Vixen, Michaela, Musetta, Ophelie, Leila, Marguerite, Violetta, Julietta (Bohuslav Martinů) and Adina for companies such as the Canadian Opera Company, Scottish Opera, English National Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Spoleto Festival, Opéra de Nice, Vlaamse Opera, New Zealand Opera, National Theatre of Prague, and Opera North. In 2006 she performed as Hanna Glawari in Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow for Opera Holland Park in London in 2006. On October 7, 2006, Caine reunited with her former cast colleagues from the original London production of Les Misérables to sing "One Day More" after a performance in celebration of the show's 21st anniversary making it the longest running musical in the world. In May 2009, she will make her Chicago debut in the Chicago Opera Theater’s production of Benjamin Britten’s Owen Wingrave. Leading Ladies In May 2007, Ms. Caine released Leading Ladies, a collection of songs paying tribute to past "Leading Ladies of the British Musical Theatre Stage", from Gertrude Lawrence to Julie Andrews, with her collaborator and vocal coach Gerald Martin Moore on piano and vocals, playing a selection of their leading men, including Noël Coward. They have created two cabaret shows based on their Leading Ladies concept (the second show is entitled Leading Ladies of Hollywood) and have performed for sold old out crowds throughout the UK in venues such as the Jermyn Street Theatre in London and the Newbury Festival in Sydmonton. In November 2007, Caine appeared on BBC Radio 2’s prestigious Friday Night is Music Night, the world’s longest running live music radio programme, singing selections from her album. .
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