Tonight, 8pm, Studio 1, RTHK
It's probably just as well that cabaret singer Eva Meier is used to travelling. She's in constant demand in Europe, but since last August, when her husband, Frank Burbach, was appointed German consul-general in Hong Kong, she has been based here.
'It makes life a little more complicated,' Meier says. 'It's always to and fro, but I would love to do more work in Hong Kong.'
She makes her local debut tonight at RTHK in an intimate show, to be recorded for later broadcast. It will reflect her approach to the sophisticated songs associated with classic German cabaret performers.
Meier has been compared to Marlene Dietrich, Lotte Lenya and Ute Lemper, and she brings an outstanding voice and a finely tuned, theatric sense to her repertoire. Trained as an actress, she rose to prominence as a singer at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan.
'I was invited after that concert to do a [Bertolt] Brecht evening,' she says. 'That, of course, is more difficult to sing because the composers are more complicated. I worked for two years to do that.'
