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A mesmerizing portrait of a muse, NADIA is a Russian doll kind of play.

Strip off the biographical layers of the legendary music teacher – her sibling love and rivalry, her feminist career challenges, and her search for genius - and NADIA actually reveals secrets of how music is created.

Performing as Nadia Boulanger, Adriana Zabala shares the stage with a trio of non-speaking musicians whose extraordinary performances amplify Nadia’s psychological world and connect the dots between Boulanger’s brilliant insight and the success of students as disparate as Piazzola and Quincy Jones.

In an 85-minute solo tour de force, Ms. Zabala delivers what audiences crave — magic in the moment.

Trailer: Courtesy of LunART Festival (Kangwon Kim, violin; James Waldo, cello; Thomas Kasdorf, piano)

• A play with music originally created for The Bakken Trio by their Artistic Director/cellist Mina Fisher 

• Original direction by Stephen Epp

• Actresses/Singers playing the role of Nadia Boulanger include Adriana Zabala, Christina Baldwin, Tammy Hensrud and Maria Jette

• Options for presenting NADIA include:

  • Festivals/music schools may request Ms. Zabala to perform with their own musicians

  • Producers may request NADIA script/music and licensing information

  • Presenters may contract the entire production

Repertoire includes:

Violin/piano 
Lili Boulanger D’un matin de printemps
Copland Sonata
Françaix Sonatine
Piazzola Triunfal

Mezzo/piano
Nadia Boulanger Les heures claires
Faure Après un rêve
Quincy Jones Everything Must Change

Mezzo/piano trio
Bach Erbarme Dich