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Metropolis Berlin
This concert describes Berlin during the golden age of the “roaring twenties” as a time of change with songs by Mischa Spoliansky, Friedrich Hollaender, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Louis Prima and many more. It is that wild era in which creativity, art, music and culture reach a climax. The time of Brecht and Weill’s The Threepenny Opera, Friz Lang’s silent film “Metropolis”, the discovery of Marlene Dietrich, who plays “Pretty Lola” in Joseph von Sternberg’s world hit “The Blue Angel”. It is also the era of the Comedian Harmonists, Josephine Baker and her Charleston music, the Andrew Sisters and American swing and jazz that are transforming Berlin and other major German cities. Haan combines all these genres and revives this exciting epoch by taking the listener on an enchantingly entertaining musical journey through music history. A high-speed show that won’t keep the audience seated, but in which you’ll want to swing and sing along!
Arranged for a 12 and an 18 piece big band.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKtfN860bWI
Between fire & ice
A time of change. A time of challenge. A time of experiments. A time when traditions are overthrown. The First World War is lost, the Kaiser in exile. And Germany experiments with a new government: the Weimar Republic is born and with it a nation longing for freedom. The Golden Age is celebrated, the dance on the volcano between the two world wars. It was the time of creativity, art, music, culture, women’s movement and gay liberation. The dynamic thoroughbred entertainer Adrienne Haan revives this exciting era. Adrienne weaves the threads between feminist struggle and female glamor and takes the viewer on an exciting journey through history. In contrast to “Voluptuous Weimar”, this concert contains only German chansons from the time of the Weimar Republic.
This program is offered for symphony orchestra and with piano accompaniment. Score and sheet music are available for all of the above accompaniments.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfZrES2VMZs
Adrienne Haan sings Kurt Weill
In this soirée, the focus is on the history of Kurt Weill’s work. Starting in Berlin in the 1920s and his famous songs from the Weimar period, through his years in exile in France with lesser-known but wonderful chansons, to his successes in the 1940s in the USA. Haan presents this evening as a musical journey in which she performs his works in their original length and in their original language. Rearranged, of course, to do justice to her expressive voice and stage presence.
Sheet music is available for a trio (piano, bass/tuba, drums) or for a 6-piece ensemble: piano, bass/tuba, drums, clarinet/alto sax, violin and guitar/banjo.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7UVUatKEW0
Love songs
A truly romantic evening reviving some of the most famous chansons of all time by Jacques Brel, Edith Piaf and Charles Aznavour. This soirée brings all the passion out of these songs as Haan guides viewers through the lives of their original cast members.
Score and sheet music available for chamber orchestra and symphony orchestra.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf3dV3dTmRo
Tehorah
Tehorah, which means “pure” in Hebrew, is a heartbreaking, uplifting, musical-poetic portrait of love, hope and forgiveness. The soirée contains German, Yiddish and Hebrew songs that were composed and written exclusively by Jewish composers and poets. Premiered in New York’s famous Carnegie Hall, this soirée sets a sign of hope for peace between peoples.
Score and sheet music are available for piano, piano and string quartet, piano and string quintet, piano and string orchestra or for a large symphony orchestra.
Trailer with symphony orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz5IDLmbt2U
Trailer with piano and string quartet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYiognd9pAQ
Staged film-noir (45 Min.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFLrsd3BitE
Rock le Cabaret!
Rock Le Cabaret! is a modern rock opera that includes French chansons by Jacques Brel, Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour and Kurt Weill and is presented in a modern rock and pop scenario, accompanied by a 5-piece rock band. Summarized with monologues and anecdotes who wrote history, Adrienne Haan combines these wittily and lively with her own, which make for an interesting, entertaining, varied and modern pastime. For the first time a chanteuse succeeds in building a bridge between classical French chanson and modern rock music. Jacques Brel meets Metallica. Edith Piaf on Van Halen. Charles Aznavour on the Bee Gees and Kurt Weill on Lloyd Webber. This show is definitely family fun and cabaret for the new generation.
Sheet music is available for a 5 piece rock band – piano, bass, drums, electric guitar and tenor saxophone.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWaGJpiIafc
Margo & Juliette – A dance on the volcano in Weimar Berlin
Margo & Juliette is a story about the women of the 1920s and early 30s and is set in Berlin. It is about their failures and successes, about life between feminist struggle and female glamour, sexual freedom and the longing for acceptance. This show is a dance on the volcano between the two world wars.
Featuring cabaret songs from Weimar Berlin, this soirée noir is set in the historical context of 1920s cabaret and tells the story of women fighting for freedom before Nazism closed the curtain on the Golden Age forever in 1933.
Written and directed by Adrienne Haan
Musical direction: Richard Danley
Choreography: Magali Dahan
The show with a touch of eroticism.
With piano accompaniment or quartet (piano, bass, drums, saxophone/clarinet/flute)
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sPkZA7Xago
From Ku’damm to Broadway
The unforgettable evening is a musical journey through 1920s Berlin to modern-day Broadway: from Weimar-Berlin evergreens to klezmer and Hebrew music, to French chansons, Broadway show tunes and songs from the Great American Songbook, sung in five languages .
This show is accompanied by a pianist or a trio. Sheet music and score are available for piano, bass and drums.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT2uwGkhtdc
French cabaret
With classics by Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour and Jacques Brel, Adrienne Haan also presents less well-known works oeuvres by Walter Jurmann and Kurt Weill from French exile, before it gets a bit more modern with jazz-pop chansons by Patrica Kaas and Canadian Isabelle Boulay. Your extraordinarily put together French cabaret promises to be emotional, seductive and extremely entertaining. In this intimate programme, she is accompanied by a pianist, a duo or a trio.
With piano accompaniment
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weqFH1CK_RA
Till The End Of Time
With this homage to the Great American Songbook, these distinctive arrangements were written especially for Haan to do justice to her strong, expressive voice and her stage presence. This lively and entertaining show includes hits like Blue Skies, a Sinatra medley and a bossa nova rendition of All Or Nothing At All. She is accompanied by a dynamic 4-piece swing band consisting of piano, bass, drums and alto saxophone/clarinet.
Sheet music available for piano or a 4-piece band consisting of piano, bass, drums and alto saxophone/clarinet.
Trailer with 4 piece band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zALIr3L6W5k
30 min streaming with piano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3roXUV1ZsA
White Christmas/A Tribute to Irving Berlin
With Adrienne Haan
With Richard Danley as music director
Directed by Adrienne Haan
Screenplay and idea: Laurence Pierron
This soirée runs at Christmas time under the name “White Christmas” but can be booked during the year under the title “A Homage to Irving Berlin”. The internationally award-winning singer Adrienne Haan and her music director Richard Danley (also on vocals) present a (Christmas) show of the highest calibre. Written by Laurence Pierron, tells the life story of the great American composer Irving Berlin and his close relationship with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
Adrienne Haan and Richard Danley combine their talents to present some of the most beautiful (Christmas) songs and lesser-known works by the fabulous American composer.
With piano accompaniment
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRazp_SEK6g
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