For Vancouver-born opera-singer-turned-cabaret-chanteuse Lindsay Sutherland Boal, life is a cabaret and it suits her just fine.
Shows with Patti Loach
Love, Lunacy and Longing: a holiday cabaret includes in its highlights a set where Boal - who's known for her commanding stage presence, zany sense of humour and expertise in German "Kabarett" - sings a trio of elegant Weimar Republic songs (including the classic Falling in Love Again) by Friedrich Hollaender.
She also performs a collection of Kurt Weill numbers that have been hilariously "re-imagined" by Toronto native Ray Jessel and composer Robert Jason Brown, the latter of whom lends his unique touch to Surabaya Santa.
Boal, Loach and trumpet player John Loach end the evening with an exquisite arrangement of Thad Jones’ A Child is Born, created especially for them by New York cabaret legend, Tex Arnold.
Lindsay and Patti talk about Love, Lunacy and Longing at The New Classical 96.3FM
Short Artist Bio
Following several successful cabaret performances, Lindsay Sutherland Boal broadened her focus on traditional operatic rep to include the music of the Weimar Republic. This led to her one-woman, critically acclaimed and award-winning show, Purely Cabaret. Subsequently, she was invited to perform at the International Cabaret Conference at Yale University where she was heard internationally on N.P.R. and on “Voice of America”. In 2011 she headlined in A Little Nostalgia Cabaret, and sang the roles of Musetta in La Bohème and Anna in Seven Deadly Sins, all with Toronto's gritty Against the Grain theatre company. Most recently she performed with Rainer Hersch at the Royal Festival Hall in London, England.
Long Artist Bio
For opera-singer-turned-cabaret-chanteuse Lindsay Sutherland Boal, life is a cabaret and it suits her just fine. Trained as an operatic soprano, after placing twice in the regional finals at the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions Lindsay began her career on Canadian and international stages singing the roles of the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, Madame Silkberklang in Die Schauspieldirektor and Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, where she was praised for her “style and panache” by Opera Canada and her “pure and powerful voice” by the Winnipeg Free Press.
Lindsay has appeared as a concert guest artist with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Nova Scotia, the Hamilton Philharmonic, the Rainer Hersch Orchestra and the London Firebird Orchestra. She has performed at Vancouver’s Orpheum Theatre, Hamilton Place, and most recently with Rainer Hersch at the Royal Festival Hall in London, England.
Following several critically acclaimed and award winning performances of her one- woman show, “Strictly Cabaret”, Lindsay broadened her focus on traditional operatic and concert repertoire to include music from the Weimar Republic. Subsequently she earned an invitation to study and perform at the International Cabaret Conference at Yale University where she was heard internationally on National Public Radio and Voice of America.
Upon moving to Toronto, Lindsay headlined A Little Nostalgia Cabaret with Against the Grain Theatre and then sang the role of Musetta for their sold-out productions of La Bohème where she dazzled audience members and critics with her “boisterous charms” (The Charlebois Post). Again with ATG Theatre, Sutherland Boal headlined in The Seven Deadly Sins. Toronto Eye Weekly said, “Boal provides a voice talent not often heard on the small- stage”. Opera Ramblings wrote “Boal cuts a commanding presence and is obviously very comfortable in cabaret repertoire”.
In addition to Lindsay’s work onstage, she can be seen on Canada’s national YTV Network as a recurring character, “the Prankster”, in Extreme Babysitting.
Lindsay holds a Bachelor’s degree in Vocal Performance (Brandon University) and an Artist Diploma (Vancouver Academy of Music). She studied at the Janácek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in the Czech Republic and at the Banff Centre for Performing Arts. She is a member of the Canadian Federation of University Women, an organization that provides assistance and mentorship to young women around the world.
Lindsay is known for her commanding stage presence, her spontaneity and comedic timing, and a slightly unnerving ability and willingness to toss aside the more stodgy “Classical Singer” traditions.
