Ruth Leon recommends… Daniela Mack In Song – San Francisco Opera

Daniela Mack In Song – San Francisco Opera
 
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This is the latest In Song instalment from San Francisco Opera. It features mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack introducing us to her hometown, Buenos Aires, and singing tango! I love it.

In a moving journey of discovery, re-connection, and riveting music, this new episode unfolds on the streets of Buenos Aires, as mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack 

returns to the homeland she left at age 6.

Mack traces her roots, shares memories of her childhood, and reunites with her family, then delivers no holds-barred renditions of Piazzolla’s

“Yo Soy Maria” and “Los Pájaros Perdidos,” as well as Pauline Viardot’s “Havanaise.”

Husband/tenor Alex Shrader and their two children join her for this homecoming, just prior to rehearsals for her starring role of Frida in Gabriela Lena Frank’s El Ultimo Sueno de Frida y Diego in which Mack plays the iconic Mexican artist. 

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