Soprano Aimee Marcoux-Spurlock's Kurt Weill Concert to Feature Rare Selections

Aimée Marcoux-Spurlock is poised to knock Kurt Weill fans dead at the Metropolitan Room Friday night at 9:30 in a special concert which includes some of Weill's rarest songs. The singer-actress will perform music Weill wrote with Maurice Magre, as well as a rarely sung song Weill wrote with Alan J. Lerner.

The concert highlights the women of Kurt Weill's oeuvre, and you can expect a Pirate to make an appearance, as well as Venus and a Lady in the Dark. Marcoux-Spurlock will be joined by Doug Martin as Pianist/ Conductor (Baz Luhrmann's La Bohème on Broadway). Michael Feingold, noted arts critic (Village Voice), is the Creative Consultant.

The Metropolitan Room is at 34 West 22nd Street in the Flatiron District of Manhattan. Showtime on February 3rd is is 9:30pm. Call: 212.206.0440 for reservations and information. Tickets can be purchased online here. A $24 cover charge and $25 minimum per person apply.

Marcoux-Spurlock has performed more than 50 operatic, musical theater and oratorio roles with leading orchestras and opera companies across the globe. These include Florida Grand Opera, New World Symphony Orchestra, Florentine Opera, Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphony of the Americas, The Bulgarian National Orchestra, Opera Frankfurt, Paraguay Symphony Orchestra and The Hungarian State Opera. Her role in Marin Alsop's revival of Gershwin's rare Blue Monday with Colorado Symphony Orchestra was described as "sumptuous" by the Denver Post. In 2013, Marcoux-Spurlock premiered The Yellow Wallpaper a one-woman opera written for her by composer and Duke University Professor, Michael Trinastic.

In a dramatic departure from her singing career, Marcoux-Spurlock worked as a reporter and producer for Reuters Television, Showtime, the BBC, NBC and Fox affiliates throughout the United States, and was a reporter/producer for Entertainment Drive, one of the first online new outlets. Marcoux-Spurlock has been spotted at The Emmys, The Tony Awards and the Academy Awards interviewing such celebrities as Sir Anthony Hopkins, Salma Hayek, Tony Bennett, and Mariah Carey. At the United Nations, she interviewed Kofi Annan, Senator Bill Richardson, President Bill Clinton and HRH Prince Phillip. In addition, Marcoux-Spurlock spent fourteen seasons covering New York's Fashion Week for fashion and entertainment news outlets.

On one such occasion, September 11, 2001, Marcoux-Spurlock was in New York covering an early morning fashion show when she received a call from Reuters urging her to grab her cameraman and "go to a plane crash downtown." She was one of the first reporters on the scene at The World Trade Center. She would spend that day and subsequent weeks reporting on that horrific event. Her footage and stories were featured in the 2002 HBO documentary, "IN MEMORIAM-NEW YORK CITY, 9/11/01." In addition, Marcoux-Spurlock was lauded by The Royal Television Society as "an invisible giant of TV news" for her coverage at Ground Zero and received an award of recognition.

In another fascinating twist, the true story of Aimée Marcoux-Spurlock and her husband, Michael Spurlock will be told in the upcoming Sony Affirm pictures release "All Saints," scheduled for 2017 release. The film recounts the story of professional-turned-pastor Michael Spurlock (actor John Corbett) and Aimée (actress Cara Buono) and a group of refugees from Southeast Asia, who risk everything to save their tiny church in Tennessee and transform their future.

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