Column: The Purist
Those who know me best may say that I am more than a singer, that I am a multitasker, a mom, a writer, an actor, someone who rarely misses your birthday, makes time for family and friends—and sometimes my closest loved ones think I simply am doing too much. When, with a 2-year old already […]
Column: The Purist
Standing behind a large movie screen this summer, I watched The Thomas Crown Affair in reverse. I was the curator of The Summer of Michel Legrand, a film festival at the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) in New York City devoted to the great French film composer. I made welcome speeches and then slipped backstage to regroup […]
Melissa to Release Legrand Affair (Deluxe Edition)
Melissa’s next studio album is an exciting one! On November 8, Legrand Affair (Deluxe Edition) will be released.
Get Out of My Light, Honey. I’m Auditioning Here.
Get Out of My Light, Honey. I’m Auditioning Here.
Melissa in France
Original expanded essay (originally published on Playbill.com) We were in the middle of a six-course epicurean dinner and I had just had been served my main course, which looked shockingly spare to my American eye. Two scallops, three shrimp, and little else on the large, white plate. It didn’t take me three minutes to disappear […]
An Even Grander Affair Coming to 54 Below
This November at Feinstein’s/54 Below, Melissa will offer New York the Legrand performance that thrilled and moved Paris and San Francisco.
The Extravagance and Genius of Michel Legrand (An Expanded Memoir)
English Edition, expanded from her New York Times memoir published in January 2019 As first published in La Regle Du Jeu I can still hear Michel Legrand’s voice in my head: “Melissa! Hurry! Come!” This was morning at the Music Box Theatre, an early rehearsal during the first previews of the Broadway musical Amour which […]
Melissa to Curate Legrand Film Festival
The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) honors the great French composer Michel Legrand, who died in January this year, with a special CinéSalon series devoted to his life and work. Curated by one of his longtime collaborators and greatest interpreters, singer and actress Melissa Errico, Summer of Michel Legrand brings together seven of his films […]
Column: The Purist
Transcendental Meditation is a demanding companion. I started TM just a year ago because, outwardly, enough people told me I should; and inwardly, because I knew I needed something deep within to slow down the speed of my mind and the pace of my days, and even find some comfort and pleasure far inside myself. […]
Playbill: Melissa Errico Trips the Light Fantastic With Stephen Sondheim—Or Is It the Light Fandango?
Mr. Stephen Sondheim recently came backstage after the final performance at the 92 Street Y Lyrics & Lyricists production of Wordplay, written and hosted by Ted Chapin, gracing us all with warmth and positivity. With due reverence and never taking his presence for granted, I greeted him with (and this is something of a running joke between us), “You […]
Sondheim: Wordplay at 92Y
Melissa will join fellow theater mainstays Lewis Cleale, Christopher Fitzgerald, Telly Leung, Lesli Margherita, and Lauren Worsham for a Sondheim-focused series at 92Y in New York City. Part of the Lyrics & Lyricists series, “Sondheim Wordplay” is set for March 30 – April 1 at Kauffman Concert Hall. From 92Y: Though Stephen Sondheim has written […]
Swept Up in the Whirlwind Known as Michel Legrand
I still hear Michel Legrand’s voice in my head: “Melissa! Hurry! Come!” It was morning at the Music Box Theater, an early rehearsal during the first previews of his 2002 Broadway musical “Amour.” It was 10:01 a.m., and we were all moving slowly, nursing coffee cups in the palms of our hands. We had performed […]