![]() ![]() A chat on the charms of the 1,000 year old theatre ends up with the grievance of having to move our own scenery. We hang on their every word as endless hilarious insights are delivered with their trademark caustic insouciance. As one half of Kiki and Herb, they have long cemented themselves in the hearts of adoring British audiences on every visit. Old works to reveal surprising new stories.London has long had a love affair with the self-described “vain cabaret legend” that is Justin Vivian Bond. Whether invoking mythology or nature, romance or radical compassion, BondĪnd Costanzo carve new pathways between opera and politically subversive cabaret – twoĪrt forms that, as Bond puts it, “have been kept alive for generations by queens”- and allow Of classical, pop, and hybrids of the two, making the gendered history of the music their In ‘Only an Octave Apart’, they express their queer identities through unique interpretations Specially commissioned work by Philip Glass. ![]() Handel’, an operatic spectacle juxtaposing works by Philip Glass and Handel, featuring a Spectacular space of Printworks London – a printing plant turned club venue – in ‘Glass He will appear at this year’s Proms on 3 September at the Of the Year and is the exquisite star of Philip Glass’ ‘Akhnaten’ which recently triumphedĪgain at the Metropolitan Opera. Grammy Award winner Anthony Roth Costanzo was named Musical America’s 2019 Vocalist Only an Octave Apart taken at Wilton’s on the 28th September 2022, London, credits: Ellie Kurttz Their memoir ‘Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels’ won the Lambda LiteraryĪward for transgender non-fiction. Sydney Opera House, and appearances in films (‘Shortbus’, ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’). As one-half the the legendary Kiki and Herb and as a soloĪrtist, their illustrious 30-year cabaret career has included headlining at Carnegie Hall, The Justin Vivian Bond has garnered an OBIE Award, a Bessie Award, a Tony Award nomination,Īnd an Ethyl Eichelberger Award. Back and forth they went, until they performed an encore that somehow folded together Philip Glass’s Akhnaten and Walk Like an Egyptian. It felt like climbing a pyramid at dawn: Your pharaoh could never. For most of the show they’d banter about their differences, but the vibe was always glittering, sparkling, exquisite, enrapt. This gloriously unexpected and fantastically unconventional vocal orgasm you will experience during the show will provoke very strong and pleasant emotions and will make your night as unforgettable as it can be! They are a joy to watch! Only an Octave Apart taken at Wilton’s on the 28th September 2022, London, credits: Ellie KurttzĪct in this breathtaking cabaret-fantasia, based on the unlikeliest collaboration in the vocal universe: Costanzo, a world class countertenor, singing duets with Bond, New York’s favorite alt-cabaret chanteuse. Justin Vivian Bond and Anthony Roth Costanzo make the perfect duo to transfer you to a universe of cabaret glitter and opera realness. It celebrates the historical and the hysterical, from countertenor to counterculture. ![]() Together they have created a show called ‘Only An Actave Apart’ that mashes up pop classics with some of the greatest opera arias – it is a joyous and surprising musical fantasia, reveling in everything strange and beautiful in the coexistence of contrasts – from Purcell’s 17th century aria ‘Dido’s Lament’ to Dido’s early 2000s hit ‘White Flag’, from ‘Autumn Leaves’ to ‘The Waters of March’ and Queen’s ‘Under Pressure’. Only an Octave Apart taken at Wilton’s on the 28th September 2022, London, credits: Ellie KurttzĪnthony Roth Costanzo is the star countertenor (‘the vocally brilliant and dramatically fearless countertenor’ – The New York Times) whose otherworldly high voice has bewitched so many, notably in the title role of Philip Glass’s opera Akhnaten (which returns to the ENO in London this spring). The highly theatrical show features two incredible stars – Justin Vivian Bond is know as the queen of downtown cabaret, regularly holding court at clubs like Joe’s Pub, described as ‘the greatest cabaret artist of their generation’ by New Yorker. ‘Only An Octave Apart’ – one of the biggest cultural hits from New York in the past 18 months comes to London and runs at Wilton’s Music Hall for an entire month from 28 September – 22 October. ![]()
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