Chanteuse Barbara Lowin Offers “Everything I Love”

Love is everywhere as Barbara Lowin premieres her new show, “Everything I Love,” an evening of continental cabaret, at Danny’s Skylight Room Cabaret. Featuring music director Christopher Marlowe on piano, and directed by Scott Barnes, “Everything I Love,” is subtitled Songs from Near and Far Away.

In “Everything I Love” Lowin visits a time of enchantment in pre-war Eastern Europe, journeying to the present with many a romantic stop along the way. Singing in German, French, Russian and English, Lowin’s mastery of the languages is superb. Lowin returns to the well of romance to sample both its sweet pleasures (“Im chambre séparée” from a Richard Heuberger operetta, adapted by Marlowe with English lyrics by Lowin), as well as its darker brews (Piaf & Monnot’s heart-wrenching “Hymne à l’amour”). Whether studying the art of seduction (John Wallowitch’s tasty “Luncheon in München”) or feeling its bittersweet pain (Fritz Kreisler’s “Liebesleid” adapted by Marlowe and Lowin), love is her compass all along the way.

Born into a Ukrainian-Russian musical family in Toronto (her mother was a successful singer on TV and radio, her father a bandleader who also managed and later married Gisele MacKenzie), Lowin was first a child star on Canadian television and then a successful opera singer specializing in classic lyric roles. An original member of the famed master classes of Maria Callas at Juilliard in 1971, Lowin pursued an 18-year career in opera and concerts during which she performed with the New York City Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, the Canadian Opera Company, the Welsh National Opera, and with leading orchestras such as The New York Philharmonic under Pierre Boulez and The St. Louis Symphony under Leonard Slatkin.

Lowin’s most recent album, recorded with pianist Paul Greenwood for Frosia Records, is “As Long As There’s Music.”#

“Everything I Love” starring Barbara Lowin is showing at Danny’s Skylight Room Cabaret, 346 West 46th Street. Performances are on Sunday, October 5 at 8:45 P.M. For reservations call (212) 265-8133.

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