Performance

La Vie en Rose

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First heard in postwar Paris, “La Vie en Rose” became Édith Piaf’s defining song and, by 1950, a fixture in American popular culture through multiple Billboard-charting recordings. At Town Hall in New York City, the piece is framed as a live play, tracing how a three-minute chanson carried French mood and memory across the Atlantic. Nathalie Lermitte performs in the shadow of Piaf’s persona, treating the song less as nostalgia than as a document of survival. Its endurance says as much about translation as about romance.