By Richmond Shepard, Performing Arts Insider | June 14, 2011 YANNA AVIS is a beautiful woman with a pleasant voice and loads of appeal in her performance of songs in French and English (with a touch of German). She exudes a lovely sensuality, and is more of an entertainer than a singer. Sure, she stays […]
Metropolitan Room: Cabaret Scenes
By Peter Haas, Cabaret Scenes | June 13, 2011 An accordion begins. Yanna Avis—slim, blonde, sultry—enters in a clinging black dress. Parisian by birth, actress by training and career, she reinvented herself several years ago as a cabaret singer, and in that role made her Metropolitan Room debut in June, in a multilingual program of […]
Evoking ’50s Glamour, Through Teasing Taunts
By Stephen Holden, The New York Times | June 8, 2011 Ah, Paree! As the statuesque French chanteuse Yanna Avis sang Cole Porter’s great ode to the City of Light, “You Don’t Know Paree,” on a recent evening, a composite view of the city as imagined by Balzac, Zola and of course, Porter himself, flickered […]
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