STACEY KENT 

STACEY KENT

24 April

Auditorium

21.30

Stacey Kent returns to Portugal with her new album, Breakfast on the Morning Tram, published by the renowned Blue Note label and featuring the most eclectic musical selection by this singer.

“Breakfast on the Morning Tram,” represents a radical change in relation to what has gone before according to Bob Kaiser writing in the Washington Post.

“Counting on the collaboration of Kazuo Ishiguro – one of the best current British novelists – as the writer of many of the songs, Stacey Kent and her regular director and musical producer, Jim Tomlinson, seem to have moved onto pastures new.”

There is more jazz on this record than her previous while Stacey sings Serge Gainsbourg, Baden Powel, Vinicius de Moraes and Sérgio Mendes. One common denominator between the 12 songs on this album is that they all tell stories and generally the melancholic tales that Stacey so likes and knows so well how to do.

“With this record,” Stacey told Bob Kaiser, “I wanted to reveal more of that which I am in a way that I had never before tried. Was I successful? I think so. But it is up to the audience to decide.”

Stacey Kent speaks proudly of her six bestselling albums, of the huge range of awards, including the 2001 British Jazz Award, the BBC Jazz Award for the Best Female Vocalist category, the Backstage Bistro Award in 2004 and of her fan base that ensures she sells out venues all around the world.

Her penultimate work, the Best Next Door, was launched in great style with a year spent touring with over 250 concerts, one of which was in New York’s Carnegie Hall and a month entirely selling out the famous Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel. Turning silver in France within three months of its launch, it remained in the America Billboard charts throughout 35 weeks.

Jay Livingston, a triple Oscar award winning composer wrote about the singer: “Stacey Kent is a genuine revelation. Currently, there is nobody who sings like her. She has the style of the greats, such as Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald and sings like Nat King Cole – in a clean and clear fashion and with perfect diction.”

PROGRAM

Presentation of her album Breakfast on the Morning Tram

Price: € 20.00

Over 12s

Approx. duration: 90 minutes, no intermission

Co-production: Fundação Oriente/Incubadora d’Artes

highly valuable historiographic sources, essential for the study of East Time and indeed the presence of Portugal in Asia in more general terms.