Between the Ears

An immersive audio dive into the life and voice of mezzo Cathy Berberian, who was not only a virtuoso singer with a three-octave range, but also an actress, comedian, composer and multi-linguist. This programme tells Cathy's story from her early life in America, to finding her voice in Europe and becoming the muse of contemporary music. With recordings of her from the BBC archives, as well as interviews with vocal performance experts Francesca Placanica and Pamela Karantonis, soprano Héloïse Werner, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and mezzo Linda Hirst, who knew Cathy in the 1970s.