Anna-Lee Robertson – After Birth

Anna-Lee Robertson

Presented by Anna-Lee Robertson

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‘An Artist who has it all, Robertson stands out from the ruck for her artistry, confidence, and sheer talent bursting at the seams. She is a class act.’ – Clive O’Connell The Age.

In After Birth, Robertson fearlessly submits her personal life for analysis as she sets sail on a humorous, poignant navigation of parenthood and the nature of love. Offering meditations on the modern family struggles of pandemic kid-wrangling; relationship maintenance; self-care; the limits of hospitality and the boundless capacity of the human heart, Robertson’s inimitable wit and wisdom provide the perfect counterpoint to her extraordinary curation of vocal repertoire.

Robertson shines as the interpreter of a genre-bending patchwork of song, spanning old and new worlds of Broadway, opera, cabaret, and art song. Sharing her consummate instrument – rich in emotion, flush with colour, and sparkling with agility – Robertson’s gilded voice reaches deep into your soul and plucks at your heartstrings. Her breathtaking capacity to translate music in the most profound way is a treat to the senses, leading the audience along a musical journey at once tender and exhilarating.

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Artists

Anna-Lee Robertson voice
Mark Jones piano

Program

Adam Guettel
Baby Moon

Rodgers & Hammerstein
Ten Minutes ago

Leonard Bernstein
A Little bit in love

Richard Rodgers / Oscar Hammerstein
I enjoy being girl

Christine Lavin
A musical apology

Arthur Baysting / Peter Descent
Mrs Knife and Mr Fork

Leonard Bernstein
Dream with me

Frank Churchill / Ned Washington
Baby Mine

Maury Yeston
New Words

Harry Burleigh arr. H.H.T. Burleigh
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child

Joe DiPietro / Jimmy Roberts
The Baby Song

Stephen Sondheim
You could drive a person crazy

John Bucchino
Not a cloud in the sky

Bob Haymes
That’s All

Stephen Schwartz
Come down from the tree

John Bucchino
This Moment

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