Meow Meow

Presented in partnership with TPAC at the historic War Memorial Auditorium

Friday, October 28

Tickets from $35

To purchase by phone, call TPAC’s Box Office at 615-782-4040

“She is sensational. 5 Stars.”

— The Times (UK)

“There are not many women who can stun an audience into pin-drop silence with an exquisitely delivered torch song one moment and rock the rafters with laughter the next.”

— The Evening Standard (UK)

Post-post-modern chanteuse Meow Meow has hypnotized, inspired, and terrified audiences around the world with jaw-droppingly fabulous and frequently hilarious cabaret performances. Audiences have given her rhapsodies of praise from New York’s Lincoln Center to London’s West End; from The Sydney Opera House to Berlin’s famed Bar Jeder Vermunft. Prepare for Piazzolla tangos, Weill, Brecht, Brel, and even Radiohead alongside original chansons and wickedly divine comedy.

Named one of the “Top Performers of the Year” by The New Yorker, the international diva and comedienne extraordinaire recently made her Kennedy Center debut on Renee Fleming’s VOICES series. Fleming described Meow Meow as “a performer who gleefully tramples the barriers of genre… Her shows may be moving, hilarious, or even shocking, but you can be sure she is never dull.”

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Post-post-modern diva Meow Meow has played to sell-out crowds at venues across the globe, from New York’s Lincoln Center and Berlin’s Bar Jeder Vernunft to London’s West End and the Sydney Opera House. The spectacular crowd-surfing artist has been called “sensational” (The Times, UK), a “diva of the highest order” (New York Post), “The Queen of Chanson” (Berliner Zeitung), and “a phenomenon” by the Australian press. Her award-winning works have been curated by David Bowie, Pina Bausch, Mikhail Baryshnikov and numerous international arts festivals.

Meow Meow’s original works have played from Edinburgh International Festival to Berkeley Rep, from the Southbank Centre to the Sydney Festival and Shakespeare’s Globe, and from Shanghai to Slovenia and most recently the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). As well as being a prolific original music and theatre creator, Meow Meow specializes in the Weimar repertoire and French chanson. She has played Jenny in Brecht/Weill’s Threepenny Opera in Paris and London with the London Philharmonic and Anna 1 and 2 in Brecht/Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins with Orchestra Victoria, and with United Ensemble at the Konzerthaus Berlin, as well as numerous Weimar works with Sydney Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and the Bergen Philharmonic.

Meow Meow has performed as guest artist with iconic orchestra Pink Martini at the Berlin Philharmonie, Royal Albert Hall, Opera Garnier Monte Carlo, the Hollywood Bowl, and across the concert stages of Europe, Canada, and the United States. Their album Hotel Amour : Meow Meow with Thomas M Lauderdale includes duets with Rufus Wainwright, Barry Humphries, the Von Trapps and the late Michel Legrand. It was released in 2019 and named one of The Times’ top 100 albums of the year.