Martha Wainwright has recently followed up her performance in Will Tuckett’s Seven Deadly Sins at the Royal Opera House with a collabortaion with Christopher Wheeldon’s Morphoses company.
The new ballet, Tears of Saint Lawrence, with music by Ms. Wainwright and choreography by Wheeldon and Edwaard Liang, had its world premiere in New York’s Central Park last month.
The tears of St. Lawerence are traditionally known as the meteor showers that may occur on St. Lawerence’s Day.
“In both voice and music, her span includes country and blues; and her singing has sometimes a chesty blues intensity, sometimes youthful country innocence, with ascents into falsetto half-voice … This is singing that relies on a marked use of mannerism. But it’s also real singing, in which the voice itself, musically, is often very affecting,” reports The New York Times.
“Charmingly assured and no-nonsense, the blond Ms. Wainwright delivered song upon song. When she was not leading her musicians in her own songs, she led them in number ranging from Vaughan Williams to Annie Lennox.”
The ballet ended with Ms. Wainwright and the dancers each extending an arm diagonally to the sky, holding a star.
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