Following her internationally acclaimed Piaf and Dietrich tribute
shows, Helpmann Award nominee Caroline Nin returns to Adelaide with
Barbara: La Dame en Noir, a mesmerising bilingual tribute to the life
and music of the French icon, chanteuse and songwriter. Born in Paris
in 1930 and forced into hiding with her Jewish family at the age of 10
during Germany’s occupation of France, Barbara used music as a form
of self-healing. A life-long friend of Jacques Brel, she wrote and
performed melancholy songs of lost love, solitude and death but also
of hope and humour first in the small cabarets of Paris and eventually
the Paris Olympia Concert Hall. Always dressed in black, with her
heavily made up eyes and porcelain face, she became known as La Dame
en Noir. The first female performer to sing her own material,
Barbara’s music became the voice of France and her death brought
hundreds of thousands of Parisians onto the streets singing: “Dis,
quand reviendras-tu,?” (When will you return?). Now Nin finally
answers their call.
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