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Georgette
Dee
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F EST IVA L
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DAT E/ T IM E
Tuesday 28 May
at 21:00
​ abaret songs from golden and not
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quite so golden times.
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gettable songs. She is one of Germany's most
important custodians of the legacy of Brecht
and Weill, but gems from popular music have
also crept into the repertoire. Georgette Dee
is happy to interpret Tom Waits’ Strange We-
ather or Eurythmic’s Sweet Dreams, and even
songs that are seemingly sung to death ap-
pear shiny and new in her versions.
D URAT I O N
1:30
T I C K ET
Standard: 250
Senior: 225
Under 30: 190
FiB Fordel: 200
‘Germany's greatest living singer’, the renow-
ned German magazine Die Zeit declared in the
early 90s. Both before and since, the extraor-
dinary cabaret artist Georgette Dee has esta-
blished herself as one of the greatest stage
personas in Europe.
BT Fordel: 187
For decades, she has, together with pianist
and composer Terry Truck, rediscovered be-
autiful songs from the Weimar Republic and
other periods of the past, and made them their
own. At the same time, the duo also created a
separate catalogue of mood-inducing, unfor-
On stage, she – or he, for Georgette Dee is a
true stage persona – kicks in every direction
with pin sharp observational skill and witty
remarks that can turn the mood from one of
poignant beauty to harsh realism in an instant.
In Shakespeare's Sonnets, which visited the
Bergen International Festival in 2017, she tied
the performance together in the role of untra-
ditional master of ceremonies.
Georgette Dee vocal
Terry Truck piano
Supported by
Grieg Foundation
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