Vagabond Opera: The Zeitgeist Beckons

photo: Alicia Rose The Zeitgeist Beckons is concept album of sorts - an opera buffa consisting of four acts (or maybe five) by Vagabond Opera a sextet from Portland, who use 13 different languages in their lyrics, cover Edith Piaf, Tom Waits and Jacques Brel, and generally let rip like they did when Weill and Brecht were the kings of the roaring Twenties. This is an album that can serve as a treasure hunt for music geeks trying to find all the references - the easy ones are Verdi's Traviata an...

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