Music and sequin filled Bourgie Hall on Sunday as drag queen Barbada de Barbades put on a show with the Metropolitan Orchestra for a merging of 'very beautiful' performances.
Watch: Music and sequin filled a Montreal event at Bourgie Hall on Sunday as drag queen Barbada de Barbades blessed the stage. Matilda Cerone has more from the festive and fun weekend event.Drag queen Barbada De Barbades blessed Montreal’s Museum of Fine Arts for a musical drag story hour with music from the Metropolitan Orchestra on Sunday.
The performer, who goes by Barbada, took the audience through a spring-themed performance on the museum’s Bourgie Hall stage for the second installment of a three-part collaboration with the orchestra. “Drag, story time, music — it can all come together for all ages, to bring something very spectacular, very beautiful,” said the performer.According to Bourgie Hall artistic director Olivier Godin, mixing these artforms is not new. “Bringing drag to our world is something that is absolutely natural to us,” he told Global.
These types of performances are “a very good way to hear an extract from the repertoire in a very funny way, in a story,” said Fabienne Voisin, CEO of the Metropolitan Orchestra. She added that the performance shows that classical music is accessible and can be fun. After a few of Barbada’s events had to be cancelled due to security concerns, performing on such a prestigious stage is special. Barbada says she is emotional seeing drag “in such an established event, in a museum, with such a great orchestra, with such amazing musicians.”The West Block Transcript – Episode 31, Season 13Feds open to stiffer penalties, Minister LeBlanc says on repeated car thefts
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