Bibi Heal (soprano) and Milos Milivojevic (accordion) promise the full range of colour and humour as they bring From Culture to Cafés: a taste of opera and song, from highbrow to hoi polloi to Boxgrove Priory on May 21 as part of Amici Concerts.
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00:00Good morning. My name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor with Sussex Newspapers. Lovely
00:05to speak again to Bibi Heal. Now, Bibi, you are heading our way again with Milos, and
00:10you're from culture to cafes. It's got a lovely tag, a taste of opera and song, from highbrow
00:18to hoi polloi, Boxgrove Priory, May the 21st. Tell me, what's the flavour of the show? And
00:24obviously, the title says quite a lot, doesn't it? Yeah, it does. We love the idea that we
00:30can bring about all of the colours of humanity and the music that might be expressing that.
00:37We love the upstairs, downstairs quality of it. So the idea that the highfalutin upper
00:42classes are enjoying their opera and the servants below stairs are perhaps enjoying cafe songs.
00:48There's no reason, of course, why there can't be cross-pollination. So we bring both of those
00:53things and we try and show them from every angle. And we particularly love the fact that
00:59the songs have a real raw humanity to them that makes them really easy to get inside and sort of
01:07relate to. And we love the fact that actually, in this context, then we can do exactly the same
01:13with the opera arias, which, for obvious reasons, are sometimes more of a barrier for people to find
01:17themselves in the story. But this is a way of really bringing it down to the same level of
01:23people and what they did.
01:26It sounds fabulous. And Milo should work with before anyway, haven't you? So again,
01:31you two have a great understanding, don't you?
01:34We do. We have a huge shared experience, shared repertoire, shared sense of humour.
01:41And he's, and he's so instinctive with what he does, with how he plays. And so it's,
01:48it's also really possible when you've done something several times in performance, then
01:52actually he might offer something slightly different, or I might, and we suddenly find
01:56ourselves, ah, going a different way in performance, which keeps it completely spontaneous.
02:02And we love it.
02:03Well, it sounds super appealing. Lovely to speak to you. Have a great time.
02:08What a fabulous place anyway. May this one be the first.
02:12From culture to cafes. Lovely to talk. Thank you so much.
02:15You too. Thank you.