The Royal Conservatory to Welcome Meow Meow Next Spring

Mervon Mehta, Executive Director of Performing Arts at The Royal Conservatory of Music, today announced the return engagement of cabaret star Meow Meow on Thursday, May 5, 2016, at 8 pm, as part of the Quiet Please, There's a Lady On Stage concert series. The singer, who "blends performance art, cabaret, and pop culture into a style that defies labeling," (Preview Magazine), sold out her Koerner Hall debut on February 2, 2013.

Post-post-modern diva Meow Meow's unique brand of 'kamikaze cabaret' and performance art exotica has hypnotized, inspired, and terrified audiences globally. The spectacular crowd-surfing queen of song "drags cabaret kicking and screaming into the 21st century" (Time Out NY), with trail-blazing sell-out seasons from New York Lincoln Center to Berlin's Bar Jeder Vernunft to London's West End and the Sydney Opera House.

Named "cabaret diva of the highest order" (New York Post), "SENSATIONAL" (The Times, UK), One of the Top Performers of the Year by The New Yorker, "The Queen of Chanson" by the Berliner Zeitung, and "a phenomenon" by the Australian press, multi-award winning Meow's work has been curated by David Bowie, Pina Bausch, and Mikhail Baryshnikov amongst others. She has created original works for numerous international arts festivals and venues as well as performing everything from Schubert and Schumann with orchestra to touring with punk outfit Amanda Palmer and The Dresden Dolls.

She was recently seen starring on London's West End in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and in Cocteau's Le Bel Indifferent for the Greenwich Music Festival. She returned to the West End for a series of solo concerts at The Apollo and had an extended season of Meow Meow's Little Match Girl at Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall in December.

Meow Meow has just finished a wildly successful collaboration with Barry Humphries (Dame Edna) and the Australian Chamber Orchestra on Weimar music and performs next with Pink Martini and The Oregon Symphony.

Quiet Please, There's a Lady on Stage concert series includes five other concerts: Joan Armatrading makes a stop in Toronto during her last major tour and Guelph's soul music singer-songwriter NEFE opens the show; French singer Anne Carrère celebrates Edith Piaf @ 100; Lisa Fischer steps out on her own; René Marie and Wycliffe Gordon pay tribute to the musical spirit of the divine Eartha Kitt; and Lizz Wright and Canadian singer Patricia O'Callaghan share an evening.

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Quiet Please, There's a Lady On Stage at The Royal Conservatory:

Joan Armatrading: Last Major Tour

Saturday, October 3, 2015 at 8pm | Koerner Hall; $40-$90

Edith Piaf @ 100

Saturday, October 30, 2015 at 8pm | Koerner Hall; $40-$90

Lisa Fischer

Friday, January 29, 2016 at 8pm | Koerner Hall; $40-$85

René Marie's I Wanna Be Evil (With Love to Eartha Kitt) with special guest Wycliffe Gordon

Friday, February 19, 2016 at 8pm | Koerner Hall; $35-$80

Lizz Wright & Patricia O'Callaghan

Friday, April 22, 2016 at 8pm | Koerner Hall; $35-$80

Meow Meow

Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 8pm | Koerner Hall; $40-$85

Individual tickets go on sale on Friday, June 19, 2015, at 10:00 am. Six-Concert Subscription Starts at Only $210. All advertised prices include service charge and 13% HST. Tickets are available online at www.performance.rcmusic.ca, by calling 416.408.0208, or in person at the Weston Family Box Office. The Royal Conservatory TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning is located at 273 Bloor Street West, Toronto.

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