Ute Lemper: The great diva returns to Greece for a unique performance at the Pallas Theatre

One of the greatest “show women” on the planet, the explosive Ute Lemper, returns to our country with her dazzling and source of glamour. UTE LEMPER: Dating Marlene Dietrich

Multi-faceted artist, singer, dancer, actress, musician, painter and model. Multi-award winning performer with Lawrence Olivier, Molière, Billboard Person of the Year awards and historic performances in the world’s most popular musicals, Cats, Chicago and Cabaret. A consummate, bold and uncompromising performer, fiery, stirring and utterly captivating, the only performer for whom songs have been written by Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Philip Glass and Scott Walker, the incomparable Ute Lemper comes to Athena on 3rd February to present her unique musical theatre show “Rendezvous with Marlene Dietrich” at the Pallas Theatre, a tribute to the great German star.

This show is based on a 3 hour phone call and exchange between Marlene and Ute in 1988 in Paris, 30 years ago. After receiving the French Moliére Award for her performance in Cabaret in Paris, Ute had sent a postcard to Marlene, who had lived at 12 Avenue de Montaigne since 1979, essentially apologizing for all the media attention comparing her to Marlene Dietrich. Ute was just at the beginning of her career in theatre and music, whereas Marlene looked back on a long, fulfilled life of movies, music, incredible collaborations, love stories and stardom.

What a secret gift to hear Marlene talk about her life, her work and style, her love for the poet Rilke, her complicated relationship with Germany, her sorrow and her fascinations.

Six days before Ute’s opening night playing the part of Lola in the 1992 Blue Angel production in Berlin – the role that had made Marlene a star in 1928 – Marlene Dietrich passed away in Paris. After her glamorous funeral in La Madeleine, Marlene finally came back to Berlin to be put to rest.

Ute tells us Marlene’s story, along with singing her fabulous songs from all the chapters of her life, from the Berlin cabaret years to her fabulous Burt Bacharach collaborations.

On 3rd February at the Pallas, Ute Lemper, the ideal contemporary interpreter of the Brechtian world, sings Marlene Dietrich’s most beautiful songs and tells some of the most magical moments of her life, some of her most intimate secrets from her Berlin cabaret years, her love for the poet Rilke, her German ancestry, her complicated relationship with her country and so much more expensive and precious – heard and told for the first time…

A co-production of Theatrical Scenes and the cultural organisation “Twilight”.