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Raquel Bitton (born in Marrakesh, Morocco) is a French World Music singer and renowned interpreter of songs by Edith Piaf. ==Life and career== As a teenager in 1970, Bitton moved to San Francisco, where she began to work on the songs from the French ''Age d’Or'' ('Golden Age'). Her passion for music and song led her to the Edith Piaf songbook. Bitton became a renowned interpreter of Edith Piaf's music. Bitton's hit show, ''“Raquel Bitton sings Piaf - her story, her songs”'' has been performed across North America including selling out Carnegie Hall 3 Times. Critic Ann Powers, writing in the New York Times, liked Bitton's low-key treatment as she "served her subject by de-emphasizing the pathos in favour of the craft", using "calm narration". Bitton "did well to concentrate on the great singer as a virtuoso rather than a heroine" as the legend was impossible to live up to, but "a bright interpreter like Ms. Bitton certainly can illuminate it", wrote Powers.〔(New York Times - Pop Review ) ''"More craft than pathos for the Little Sparrow"''. Ann Powers. January 17, 2000.〕 Raquel Bitton has performed and Sold out as a soloist at the following venues: Carnegie Hall (Three times),New York The Kennedy Center,Washington DC The ELGIN Theater, Toronto, Canada Massey Hall, Toronto, Canada Symphony Hall, Boston, Massachusetts Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Benaroya Hall, Seattle, Washington Davies Symphony Hall,san Francisco Palace of Fine Arts,San Francisco San Francisco Opera House,San Francisco Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, Lincoln Theater, Miami, Florida The show “PIAF- her story, her songs” was made into a film which won first place at the 25th Classic Telly awards, and received the Special Jury Award for most moving film experience at The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.It was released on DVD by Lionsgate Films PLAYS WRITTEN: "The Sparrow and the Birdman"(Piaf et L'oiseleur) (The Friendship of Jean Cocteau and Edith Piaf), commissioned by TONY Award winning THEATREWORKS California. "The Ladies of The Third Floor"(“In the autumn of their lives, confronted by loss and loneliness, two hilariously stubborn women discover the strength of their friendship and its crucial value in their lives”). "Piaf..Her story..Her songs", a play that sings. Plays translated into French: MAESTRO( The life of Leonard Bernstein) written by Hershey Felder. Written the concept and scenario of HEARTS( Le Ballet des coeurs",based on the classic Film "Les enfants du Paradis" (Children of Paradise, Marcel Carne, with Jean Louis Barrault) and obscure songs of Edith Piaf( performed by Raquel Bitton) with Choreography by Tony award winner MICHAEL SMUIN,set designs TONY WALTON and danced by the SAN FRANCISCO BALLET at the SF Opera House and THE WASHINGTON BALLET at the Kennedy center."Raquel Bitton. Bitton is a heart-stopping singer, with a profound sense of moment and phrasing". The Edith Piaf vocal score was sung by legendary French vocalist Raquel Bitton. Bitton is a heart-stopping singer, with a profound sense of moment and phrasing. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Raquel Bitton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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